![]() ![]() ![]() Fat is also what leave us feeling full and satisfied.ĭuring my immediate post-college days as a (heftier) New Yorker in my 20s, I was living “the life” - adopting each trendy fad diet as soon as it was pumped out of the diet mill. Many of us are aware of our cholesterol levels, but “good” fats are responsible for raising our “good” cholesterol levels (HDL), like the monounsaturated fats in foods like avocados, extra virgin olive oil and wild-caught salmon. Fat is certainly not the weight-gaining catalyst it’s been deemed to be and since our brain is comprised of 60 percent fat, should this be a surprise?Ĭhewing the fatThough not all fats are created equal, on the same note, not all fats are bad for us. Fat-free, low-fat, no-fat diets abounded, were basically proven to work, but not to achieve the long-term effects they set out to, and were subsequently widely discredited as far as their ultimate health benefits went. ![]() As I was vilified in grade school, so too is fat, and it has been since the fat-free movement in the 1990s and before. The word has so many connotations and meanings and it was a main describing factor for me in fourth grade. ![]()
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