What does fat do for you?

Answer 1

It's important because it provides your body with nutrients your body needs...moderately! But without enough fat in your body you can't support a healthy baby and plus if you're an athlete you burn it off and you need it there to burn.

Answer 2

Cholesterol has a portion of its make-up that is an alcohol, and a 4 ring hydrocarbon molecule which makes it a sterol.

All steroid hormones are made from cholesterol. Due to its chemistry, cholesterol will not readily dissolve in water but will mix with fats and oils.

Fat is an excellent source of energy, when you eat it your body stores it and your body uses it later as fuel. Otherwise it would start eating at muscle tissue instead.

Fat is also an essential source for some of the many building-block chemicals that the body needs, such as some hormones.

Fat is essential for healthy skin, hair, and non-brittle fingernails which are a form of hair.

Fats help insulate and maintain temperature in the body and all of the organs.

Fats have 9 calories per gram versus carbohydrates and proteins which only have four calories per gram.

Fats transport and store certain vitamins known as fat soluble vitamins.

Fats make up important parts of the brain as well as very important coverings on nerves.

Cholesterol is necessary to help change sugars into fats and fats into sugars.

There is a lot of chemistry not mentioned here but you absolutely need fats in your body. If you eat olive oil or butter substitutes or canola oil, you still have

cholesterol form by your body to break these substances down and use them wheather they get stored or burned up as energy.

What matters, within today's thought, is the type of fats you ingest. Saturated fats are the fats to limit. Total fats taken in, each day, should not exceed 20% of your total caloric intake.

This intake should not be accomplished all in one meal. Spread it out over five or six small meals per day.

Don't forget that some of the foods you eat may contain fats, such as cashews, coconut, olives, and many others.

Some fats actually help lower your LDL (bad cholesterol ) and raise your HDL (good cholesterol ) but then this is another topic.

Answer 3

Clogs up your arteries in your heart that can cause a heart attack, sqeezes your lungs which makes it hard to breath, and makes you heavier, which is harder to walk, then you will end up in a wheel chair. you cannot have surgery if you are over 350.

oh no.

im feeling sorry already.

Answer 4

Fat is the body's way of storing food energy for times of famine.

In today's society, most of us have more than enough food. But evolutionarily speaking, our bodies haven't yet caught on to that fact. So we overeat to store food we'll probably never need. Which is why instances of obesity have grown worldwide over the last century or more.

Answer 5

fat is important to your diet because without fat you won't live without fat fat Is like masses in your body

Answer 6

Fats a good for u because it give u energy but not all fats are good for u