Know Your Fats

What are fats?

Fats are nutrients that give us energy, they help in the absorption of fat soluble vitamins A,D,E, & K.

Types of fats

There are four main types of fats and oils.?

- Saturated fats:? such as butter, lard (pig fat), meat fats and coconut oil tend to be solid at room temperature

- Monounsaturated oils:? like olive oil and canola oil tend to be liquid at room temperature but become solid when refrigerated

- Polyunsaturated oils like soybean oil, cotton seed oil, corn oil and

safflower oil are liquid even when refrigerated

- Partially hydrogenated fats (trans fat) are liquid seed oils that have undergone an industrial process to make them hard.

How to incorporate these oils into your daily regime

For Cooking

- Butter

- Tallow from beef

- lard from pork

- chicken, goose & duck fat

- Coconut, palm, & palm kernel oil

- Ghee

For Salad:

- Extra virgin olive oil

- Cold pressed sesame & peanut oil?

- Expeller - pressed flaxseed oil (in small quantity)

Newfangled fats can cause cancer, heart disease, immune system dysfunction, sterility, learning disabilities, growth problems and osteoporosis

- All hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils

- Industrially processed liquid oils such as soy, corn, safflower, cottonseed and canola

- Fats and oils (especially vegetable oils) heated to very high temperatures in?

???processing and frying.