Browsing articles tagged with " fat"
Mar 28, 2012
Jeannie

Healthy Fats that Melt Fats

Healthy fats are not new to us. But lately, researchers are fascinated to see how a diet that includes them still assures a beautiful silhouette, no matter if it’s a larger caloric intake. This is because fatty acids have a large number of calories, as well.

The best sources for fatty acids are avocado, dark green vegetables, oily fish, nuts, olives, various seeds, macadamia and coconut oil. Expert advice is to include them all, generously, in your daily menus.

For both cooking and to put them in salads, you can use coconut oil, macadamia nuts or walnuts, obtained by cold pressing.

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Oct 7, 2011
Jeannie

Socialize if you want to be thin

One of the alternatives to diets with no results could be socializing, say U.S. scientists who have found that in the company of other people, we lose weight, while living in isolation stimulates fat deposits.

According to a report by them and published in Cell Metabolism, active environments stimulate the conversion of fat white (ie unhealthy) in brown fat (ie healthy). But what is white fat, brown fat, good fat and bad fat?

Just as with cholesterol, not all dangerous items that you know hurt us. Moreover, it seems that fat is sometimes very healthy! Thus, the white accumulates around the waist, abdomen, internal organs and causing suffocating different serious condition.

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