Liver Fat

Nutritionists recommend that 30 percent of our diet comes from fats. Our cells require fats to work properly. Each cell membrane in our body is made up of 50 percent saturated fat. When we do not take enough saturated fats, our cells stop functioning properly.

People often think that the less fats we eat, the better. However, you do not necessarily need to reduce your fat intake. You only need to choose a fat that doesnt contribute to weight gain, a fat that is beneficial to you. Yes, you can lose fat by eating fat. Having the right type of fats makes you feel full and stops you from craving for food.

The reason why most low-fat diets dont work is that people cannot stay on the diet for long. They will have cravings for food and ultimately go on eating binges. All that hard work going on a low-fat diet then goes down the drain. The coconut oil diet can help you as it has the right type of fats.

Coconut oil is known as the energy fat and is favoured by dieters, athletes, and body builders. It is slightly lower in calories than most other fats and oils and is processed in the liver and converted directly into energy. The body needs fats to function properly. Taking most of the fats in your diet from coconut oil will make you more energetic and lower your calorie intake. Talk about killing two birds with one stone with the coconut oil diet.

Why is the fat in coconut oil so good? The reason is in the fat molecule. All fats and oils are composed of molecules called fatty acids. Fatty acids consist of long chains of carbon atoms with hydrogen atoms attached. One system of classifying fatty acids is based on the molecular size or the length of the carbon chain within each fatty acid. In this system you have short-chain fatty acids (SCFA), medium-chain fatty acids (MCFA), and long-chain fatty acids (LCFA).

Coconut oil is composed predominately of medium-chain fatty acids (MCFA), also known as medium-chain triglycerides (MCT). The vast majority of fats and oils in our diets, whether they are saturated or unsaturated or come from animals or plants, are composed of long-chain fatty acids (LCFA). Some 98 to 100% of all the fatty acids you consume are LCFA. These MCFAs and MCTs make the coconut oil diet beneficial.

Medium chain fatty acids are more easily digested than the long-chain fatty acids found in other oils. This is because they are processed directly in the liver and immediately converted into energy. There is therefore less strain on the liver, pancreas and digestive system and, being easily digested, they also tend to improve the absorption of other nutrients. Therefore, the body functions more efficiently when you take the coconut oil diet.

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It’s puzzling to see all this resistance to what many tax payers, health experts and consumers should see as a fantastic idea. Being one of the worst fats imaginable to our health, trans-saturated fats are largely responsible for America’s health crisis. It’s clearly the role of our law makers to protect us and put an end to this epidemic. The only people who should be crying foul are the food makers who use this harmful fat.

What is most dumbfounding about this so called freedom of choice’ movement is that many of those hindering progress, wouldn’t even be able to notice a difference in taste between a trans-fat and the more healthy saturated fat. Food companies make trans-fats as a cheap alternative to saturated fats. This is done by artificially converting an unsaturated fat (such as canola oil), into a trans-saturated fat. Scientific research has found the artificial trans-fats are much more damaging than the real saturated fats and can increase cholesterol and chance of heart attack.

This is an issue that simply comes down to money. Now it might be argued that one has the freedom of choice’ to pay a little bit less to have the unhealthy trans-fats in their foods. Well, I’m sure they could take that argument further and insist on having plaster, cement mix in your food too and save some extra money. Whether it’s plaster or trans-fats, both ingredients are harmful and both will increase the strain on the hospital system. It’s us, the tax payers who foot the bill for this unhealthy eating, not the food makers who use harmful ingredients to save money.

Our law makers have a role to protect us, whether legislating for the installing safety features in our cars, against terrorists or ensuring our food is safe to eat. No constitution I am aware of gives builders the right to uses asbestos as a cheap form of building material, at the cost of lives. No constitution I am aware of gives food makers the right to use harmful trans-saturated fats as a cheap fat, at the cost of lives. The makers of the constitution would be insulted that their carefully drafted document which aims to protect the people has instead been wheeled out to defend the self serving interests of some.

Banning trans-fats will by no means limit our choice, or ruin the taste of our favorite foods. This is a fantastic step in the right direction; it will save lives, reduce costs of our health system, and reduce our guilt when eating less healthy foods.

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