meat wholesalers in poole

What do we know about fat in our diet? Well if I said you should not eat it, would that be correct? Well actually, yes and no. Yes we should not eat an abundance of fat, but no we should not eliminate it. But in reality, it is no wonder we equate fat with bad. For the last half century we have been told that fat is bad for us. But now we are reminded, almost for the first time, about the real content of it in our food and health. Countries where the diets are rich in saturated fat are prone to heart attacks. Countries where the diet consists of less meat and less dairy foods generally have fewer heart attacks. Now we know eating foods with saturated fat will raise the cholesterol in our blood, causing this cholesterol to build up in the arteries and block blood flow to the heart.

Can you recall the old USDA food guidelines equating it with sweets? They warned us to eat sweets and fats sparingly. Those of us old enough will remember that fat free recipes were the rage, Cookbooks with fat free recipes were everywhere. I got on several of these diets, and I always gained the weight back that I had lost. “Nonfat” and “fat” were stamped on food labels, often on products that did not even contain it. Most health practitioners preached the virtues of very low fat diets.

The result was many folks completely cut it out of their diets, this was not a good thing for any of us, yours truly included.

Here is the real story; we store about eighty per cent of the fat we consume, most of it we do not need. This extra fat is burned off as reserve energy when we stay active. If we are not active, the extra fat we consume will become that which we fear. But twenty per cent of the fat in our body is just not stored. Our body puts that right to work. Fat in our diet allows our body to absorb the vitamins we refer to as soluble. So let’s just make this broad statement, we need some of it in our body!!

It also helps produce chemicals that control blood pressure and prevent blood clots.

So I think buy now you would agree that I have made my point, we need fat in our body.

So stay active and eat healthy and live a long happy life.

meat wholesalers in poole by Casti de Copiat