The attention that many people pay to diet and nutrition is sometimes quite pronounced. This is the case, for example, of those who decide to ban fats from their diet. Those who eliminate these foods from their diet are mistaken, thinking that they are bad for health. If it is true that not all fats are equally good for the body, it is equally true that some are essential.
What does it mean to eat healthy?
A healthy and balanced diet and a little exercise can ensure a long life. We explained it in the article “How to stay young even at 60 with this very simple but very effective exercise“. Therefore, every day it is good to take macronutrients such as carbohydrates, lipids and proteins in variable percentages and of different origin. To these are added mineral salts and vitamins.
In this simple subdivision, lipids also offer their contribution as their role in the body is fundamental. Eliminating them entirely could become a harmful choice for health nor would it produce the desired effects on an aesthetic level. What we need to pay attention to is rather the choice of fats to be introduced daily and the dosage.
Those who eliminate these foods from their diet are mistaken, thinking that they are bad for health
Eliminating fat completely and drastically from your diet could have harmful effects. It is often believed that to lose weight quickly it is enough to abolish foods that contain even a small percentage of it from the diet.
To give an example, one review highlighted how the substitution of fats with refined carbohydrates in the diet does not counteract the risk of cardiovascular disease. On the contrary, it could give rise to other problems. Therefore, fats enter fully as macronutrients necessary for a healthy diet. In this sense, it is good to prefer foods rich in unsaturated fats rather than saturated and hydrogenated fatty acids. We have provided an example in the article “A mine of Omega-3 in these seeds to prevent cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases”.
A diet that completely abolishes lipids could damage the body in various ways. Suffice it to think that the membranes of each cell of the organism are composed of a phospholipid bilayer that performs an important structural and homeostatic function. In addition, some vitamins such as D, E and K are fat-soluble, so they need lipids to nourish the body.
Another aspect not to be overlooked concerns brain functions. A healthy brain needs unsaturated fatty acids such as Omega-3s which improve cognitive function and protect against neurodegenerative diseases. Therefore, making an informed selection, it is good to take the right amount of fat in your diet.
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