Unsaturated Fats

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Unsaturated Fats

• By Mary Morgan
• 6th hour, A Day
• Christenson

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Monounsaturated and Polyunsaturated Fats

• Do not increase our risk of getting heart disease
• 9 calories for every gram in Unsaturated Fats
• Eating too much can result in gaining weight

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To reduce Saturated Fats

• Use less fat, oil, and margarine
• Eat more low fat foods like
  vegetables rice fruits
  pasta breads cereals

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Saturated Vs. Unsaturated

• Derived from animal products.
• Considered Un- healthy to eat.
• Associated with atherosclerosis and heart disease.

• Derived from plants.
• Considered good to eat as long as youre watching
  your cholesterol.

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Foods high in Unsaturated Fats

• Oily fish
• Avocados
• Nuts and Seeds
• Sunflower, rapeseed and olive oil, and spreads
• Vegetable oils

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Unsaturated instead of Saturated

• Oily fish
• Olive, sunflower, or rapeseed oils
• Mashed potatoes with olive oil garlic
• Choose fat spread

• sausages/meat pies
• butter, lard and ghee in cooking
• with butter and milk
• butter in it

Not Not Not w/o
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How much Unsaturated fat do you need???
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What Unsaturated Fat does for your body. (Good)

• Omega-6-poly-unsaturated fat - This fat type
  prevents heart disease if you do not consume too
  much of it.
• Mono-unsaturated fat - This type of fat prevents
  heart disease and circulatory disease in moderate
  amounts.
• Omega-3-poly-unsaturated fat - This type of fat
  prevents heart disease and reduces inflammatory
  reactions in moderate amounts.
• it also reduces the risk of cancer, intestinal
  inflammations and rheumatism.
• Omega-9-poly-unsaturated fat - This type of fat
  also prevents heart disease and reduces
  inflammatory reactions in moderate amounts.

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What Unsaturated fats can do for your body. (Bad)

• Omega-6-poly-unsaturated fat - it causes
  inflammatory reactions
• This type of reactions are good when they are
  moderate and when they are used to fight disease.
  
• But a constant high inflammatory response is
  dangerous, and can cause rheumatism, heart
  trouble and cancer.
• A very high consumption of this type of fat is
  dangerous.

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What food group is Unsaturated fat in???

• Unsaturated Fat is in the meat group, the
  vegetable group, the fruit group, the dairy
  group, the grain group, and the sugar/fat group.
  It is in all of the groups.

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Thanks To

• www.google.com for the websites where I got
  information on Unsaturated Fats.
• www.umass.edu/nibble/inlist for information on
  Unsaturated Fats.