Is Saturated Fat Bad For Your Heart?
Mar 05, 2024
What Are Saturated Fats?
Saturated fats are solid at room temperature; butter, bacon, cheese, lard, margarine, tallow, ghee, coconut oil, chicken skin, fat on steak, sausage, cocoa butter, and suet. But they can also exist in a more liquid form. Some liquid oils have a bit more saturated fat, like palm oil. Milk and dairy are another exception. It looks liquid at room temperature, but it is a lipid emulsion (many solid fat particles floating around in a liquid).
Why Saturated Fats Matter?
If you want to live longer and optimize your health, you must begin with saturated fat. Why? Because of all the possible lifestyle modifications you could implement, reducing saturated fat makes the single biggest difference.
Saturated fats are defined as fatty acids that have no double bonds. They can be totally synthesized by the human body and thus their concentrations do not depend on diet. Let me say that again, you do not need to consume saturated fat. Your body can make it!
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