Fats Flashcards
How does your body use fats?
Protect our organs and cells from damage . Fats keep our body warm. Use fat reserves for energy if there is a shortage of carbs.
Which foods are sources of Fats?
Animal sources = butter,meat with fat on and oily fish such as sardines
Plant sources = cooking oils,peanut butter,olives and avocado pears.
How fats work in a balanced diet?
Fats we store in our bodies can come from our food, but most comes from carbohydrate metabolism.
So then we do not need to include a lot of fats in our diet. Lots of fatty foods causes us to be fat if we not active
eat healthy fatty foods like sardines and nuts but only a small amount.
What are fats?
Like carbs,fats are compounds of carbon,hydrogen and oxygen. But fats are richer in carbon and hydrogen and poorer in oxygen, but can provide body with more energy.
