Fat: What It Is and What It Does
What is fat? Does it serve a purpose? If you ask many on
the street , they would assuredly tell you that fat is "bad"
and that they need to get rid of theirs. While one can certainly
possess too much fat, it does play a vital role in our daily
lives and is misunderstood to say the least.
Both dietary fat and stored fat are necessary for survival,
but it needs to be understood that dietary fat is certainly
not the cause of excess stored fat.
In chemical terms, fat can best be defined as any group of
natural esters of glycerol and various fatty acids that are
solid at room temperature. This description best applies for
saturated fats, but unsaturated fats are fats too. However,
they are essentially the same ester groups of glycerol, only
they are liquid at room temperature.
Fats play a large role that is often underplayed
by those within the fitness community. Fat cannot
be lived without. Fat serves as insulation for our
internal organs. The heart, kidneys, and other organs are
surrounded by adipose tissue which helps not only to protect
them from injury, but to hold them in place as well.
Fat is also vital for the breakdown of the vitamins
A, K, D, and E. In summation, fat is truly important for daily
functions, which is why are bodies need a bare minimum of
12% for women and 7% for men. It protects our organs, regulates
body temperature, nourishes our skin and helps fortify our
bones, without which we'd be most certainly be...
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