10 Things You Should Know About Saturated Fats

-By Paul A. Philips

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Saturated fats: Food fat has been unfairly demonised by superficial and untrustworthy adverting and marketing. Supermarket shelves are stacked with foodstuffs overplaying the ‘low-fat’ or ‘fat-free’ labelling: Didn’t the school biology text books tell you that fats were an essential dietary requirement? Yes, indeed they did. 

 

In particular, saturated fat is not the darkly demon it is sometimes made out to be. Foods such as dairy produce, meats, fish oils… nuts such as walnuts, coconut oil and other plant-based oils contain saturated fat and have many health benefits. 

 

A little background

 

Before going on about saturated fat and its role in health and healing  here’s a little background.

It’s worth remembering that the term ‘saturated fat’ basically means that the bonds are tightly packed, without double-bonds. For more info on this go here.

 

To summarize saturated fat and its role in health and healing 

 

  1. Not very well publicised in mainstream media is the fact that saturated fact is known to prevent heart disease. Plaque formations built up over time on the inside walls of blood arteries caused by bad cholesterol and a sticky material Lipoprotein (a) leads to heart disease. However, a regular dietary intake of saturated fat leads to less lipoprotein (a) than unsaturated fat and which ultimately leads to less heart disease. 
  2. Saturated fats greatly contributes to our cell walls (phospholipid bilayer) maintaining cell structure, integrity and fortification, preventing foreign substances on the outside finding their way in. 
  3. Bone building, structure and maintenance are aided by saturated fat through having an involvement in calcium use. 
  4. Saturated fats contribute to the liver by fighting off toxicity. 
  5. Saturated fats allow elongated omega-3 fats found for example in fish oils to be better retained. 
  6. Strong evidence shows that saturated fat does not give rise to artery clogging in the way explained in the above point 1. 
  7. Saturated fats are great for stress handling. During stress a healthy heart effectively uses saturated fats like coconut oil or stearic acid from cocoa for dealing with stress. 
  8. Fungal infections like candida can be fought off care of saturated fats such as coconut oil and its component caprylic acid. 
  9. Other potentially harmful micro-organisms are fought off by saturated fats. 

  10 Continuing on from the above saturated fats contribute to building a healthy immune system which helps fight off disease. 

 

Finally

 

The point about all this is to learn to discern what is beneficial in your diet as opposed to that which may not be good for your health on the long run. Don’t be deceived or misled by clever advertising, do your research… These are the 10 things you should know about saturated fats and its role in health and healing.

 

Further Reading

 

Omega-3 Fats And Their Potential Life-Saving Health Payoffs 

-By Paul A. Philips

 

Omega-3 fats: For your health, nothing is more important than the food you eat. This article serves as one of a countless number of others that reiterate this statement.

 

In the case of this article, as the title says, it hones in on the wonderful health payoffs of omega-3 fats.

 

Regular dietary intakes of omega-3 fats have many health payoffs. This includes the avoidance or reversal of a whole host of illnesses.

 

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