Which burns faster and is more essential for weight loss? Saturated fats or unsaturated fats?
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Fat has an undeserved reputation as a diet food that is bad for weight loss and health. True, saturated fat is bad for health, as it is proven to clog arteries causing heart disease and stroke. However, health warnings to "avoid saturated fat" have been misinterpreted to mean "avoid ALL fats." But the truth is, good fat is absolutely essential for good health.\n\nWhat Type of Fat is "Good"?\nBy good fat, I mean non-saturated fat - both polyunsaturated and monounsaturated. This type of fat or oil has numerous health benefits.\n\nIt transports fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K throughout the body. \nIt cushions and protects internal organs. \nEssential fatty acids (EFAs), benefit your heart, metabolism and immune system. \nSome EFAs are used by the body for structural, hormonal and electrical functions rather than for energy. These EFAs increase metabolic rate and increase fat burn off resulting in loss of weight. \nFat is a concentrated source of energy. \nSaturated Fat\nSaturated fats include Hydrogenated Fats or Trans-Fats - frequently found in commercial bakery products and margarines. Saturated fat is generally solid at room temperature. It is found in animal meats, chicken skin, lard, butter, hard margarine, cheese, whole milk and anything these ingredients are used in, such as cakes, chocolate, biscuits, pies and pastries.
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The simple answer is energy. I can't remember the complex answer from chemistry or whatever science class it was. What I do remember is that whatever Calories are not used up are converted into fat. (Hence why people diet and exercise.)
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unsaturated but that is not a good question.  Super saturated is when heat is used to dissolve more solute in a solution.  Saturated is when it is holding its max at room temp.  Unsaturated is when the solution has room to spare and i've never heard of presaturated.
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If you are trying to lose fat, you want both a low fat and low cal diet. Don't count on losing weight if you exercise though because you are likly to put on more pounds than you lose. \n\nIt takes around 500 calories to burn off one pound of fat, but fat is the last reserve of your body, so it takes a lot to get to it. \n\nTo get an estimate of how much you burn each day, consider that if you did nothing but sit, with some minimal walking, you would burn about 2000 calories. If you do the same thing, except for getting about 2 hours of heavy exercise, you'll burn about 3000 calories. You need about 2500 calories a day to avoid being hungery and to stay healthy.\n\nSo, a smart diet (around 2500 calories), and more than an hour of exercise daily, and you should slowly start seeing a difference. Don't expect it to go fast though. It takes about 3 months for your body to adjust to major changes in diet and exercise, and get to peak preformance.
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One gram of Fat on burning in your body gives you 9 calories while carbhydrate only 4 calories  Carbohydrates are stored in your body as fat.
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no,  it means the more water you loose;\nto burn fat it is best to exercise for more than 20 minutes per session (continuous exercise), your body typically burns it's glycogen stores for the first 20 minutes BEFORE it begins to burn fat.  That is why most aerobic exercise sessions are for thirty minutes.
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Human fat tissue contains about 87% lipids, which store about 9 kcal/g energy. Therefore, to lose 1 kg of body-fat tissue, the energy of about 870 g pure fat has to be used up, which corresponds to about 7800 kcal (32 MJ), that is one has to create a −7800 kcal deficit between energy intake and use. (In U.S. customary units, that is about 3500 kcal per pound.) \n\nTherefore  3Kg X 32 MJ/Kg X 1 s/103J X 1 hr/3600s = \n\n258.9 hours (assuming you are losing 3 Kg of body mass not water weight)
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In real life American diets it probably is somewhere up to 50% which is way too high. \nYou should shoot for 20-30% calories from fat in your diet, less if you have heart disease. \nSaturated fat raises blood cholesterol more than other forms of fat. Reducing saturated fat to less than 10 percent of calories will help you lower your blood cholesterol level. The fats from meat, milk, and milk products are the main sources of saturated fats in most diets. Many bakery products are also sources of saturated fats.
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you wanna lose weight you gotta do more output (excercise) than input (eating). So, either exercise MORE or eat LESS. The other writer is correct...there is no way to target fat loss....the body burns fat eventually when working out after it has burned the easy to burn stuff like carbs (sugars). So, you gotta do something aerobic...preferably for a longer period of time rather than shorter period of time. So, quit eating bad food, increase the amount of exercise you are doing, and maybe cut back slightly on the amount of food you are eating. The weight will come off...it is impossible for it not to.
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drop sugar, salt, caffiene, and sat fat intake. and yes. walk around. you may think running around will burn fast easy. actually no. walking. low cardio fat burn is what it's called. don't follow atkins diet either. the body needs carbs just to move. take your body wieght. divide by two. whatever # u get you need to be eating that many calories a day just to survive. and thats not counting moving around.\n\ngood luck.\n\nsry, its alot of info. but i'm a nurse in training.\n\ngot a lot of bio classes under my belt.
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Polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fatty acids (e.g., fish oils, olive oil) have been shown to have a protective effect on cardiovascular health, while unsaturated trans fats and saturated fats have been linked to higher risk of heart disease. In fact, blood low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels are more strongly linked to a person’s dietary intake of saturated fats and trans fats than how much cholesterol the person eats (e.g., from eggs). Therefore, it is important for people to watch out for “low cholesterol” or “no cholesterol” products that are high in saturated fats or trans fats because they are still very dangerous to heart health.\n\n\nDietary fat is a concentrated source of calories, providing more than twice the energy found in carbohydrates or proteins. It is important to balance the intake of energy with overall energy expenditure to avoid unintentional or excessive weight gain or weight loss. Consuming more calories than the body needs, whether from fats, carbohydrates or from proteins, will lead to weight gain. Therefore, a low–fat diet that is not combined with overall calorie control or energy balance can also lead to excessive weight gain. Overweight and obesity are risk factors for coronary artery disease and other heart–related problems. \n\nThe Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) develops recommendations for intake levels of certain nutrients for healthy Americans called Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs). The IOM panel recommends that total dietary fat intake should consist of 20 to 35 percent of total daily energy (calorie) intake. Specifically, the Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) released in May 2001, recommends that 25 to 35 percent of one’s daily calorie intake should come from fat. Saturated fats should be less than 10 percent of total daily calorie intake; polyunsaturated fats should be up to 10 percent of total calorie intake and monounsaturated fats up to 20 percent of total calories. \n\nTrans fats should be limited as much as possible by avoiding foods prepared with partially hydrogenated vegetable oils. If you have heart disease or are at high risk for developing it, then saturated fat should be limited to less than 7 percent of total daily calories. In general, the best strategy for reducing one’s trans fat and saturated fat intake is to read food labels and eat a balanced heart–healthy diet. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Guide Pyramid is a useful tool for monitoring daily food intake. For additional tips, see Tips for Reducing Fat Intake.
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Fat is simply the body's way of storing unused food energy.  Each body stores fat a little differently.  When you lose fat you lose it from all over the body.  Most people have too much fat but some fat is necessary so you don't want to get rid of it all.\n\nThe best measure is not looks but performance.  Can you go up a flight of stairs without being winded?  Is it a big deal to walk home with the groceries?  Do you have any weight-related health problems?\n\nDrugs and 'diet' products are not the answer.\n\nThe best way to lose weight is through a balance of proper nutrition and exercise. If you burn more calories than you eat then you will burn off excess fat.  If you do this over a long period of time then you will have excellent results.  This is the ONLY thing that works, please believe me.\n\nNow, saying it is one thing, the real challenge is doing it. It would be nice if there was a quick fix but there isn't. The good news is that changing your lifestyle is nowhere near as boring or as painful as people think.\n\nPlease don't go on a diet or rely on medication, they simply don't work. The very idea of depriving yourself of food for a limited period and then returning to your 'normal' lifestyle doesn't work no matter how much people talk about it.  \n\nEat everything you like but slowly decrease the amount and slowly substitute healthier foods. Tastes change and I now actually like things that I never thought I would.\n\nI've been an exercise consultant and people often ask me: 'Whats the best kind of exercise?' and I often tell them: 'The best kind of exercise is one that you will do.'\n\nThere is no best exercise or best diet. The best exercise is any exercise that you like and that fits your daily schedule. The best diet is to eat things you like but slowly evolve towards healthier choices.\n\nBe patient. Be determined. Enjoy. Good Luck.
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The thing is that a cis touble bond (the kind where the two carbons are on the same side of the bond) creates a sort of a kink in the carbon chain. In saturated fats, there are no double bonds, so the carbon chain is more or less a straight line, but in unsaturated fats, the carbon chain is bent in one or more location. The straight molecules of the saturated fat can pile up into stacks with all the molecules lined up parallel to each other. Unsaturated fats, on the other hand, can't do this. Think about a bendy straw. In the box, they can be packed together into a tight solid, but as soon as you bend the part at the top they can't be packed together nearly as neatly or closely.\n\nSaturated fats are less healthy not because they can't be broken down as easily, but because they are better able to form a tightly packed solids, so they tend to have higher melting points, and are therefore more likely to form solid masses in your arteries and elsewhere. Unsaturated fats tend to be liquids, so they don't clog things up as much.\n\nIncidentally, in trans fats, the carbon atoms around the double bond are arranged across from each other so that the carbon chain is straight, like in saturated fats, so they behave similarly to saturated fats, which is why they are so much worse for you than naturally occuring unsaturated fats.
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Saturated fat is fat that consists of triglycerides containing only saturated fatty acids. Saturated fatty acids have no double bonds between the carbon atoms of the fatty acid chain (hence, they are fully saturated with hydrogen atoms).\n\nAn unsaturated fat is a fat or fatty acid in which there is one or more double bond in the fatty acid chain. Fat molecules are monounsaturated if it contains one double bond, and polyunsaturated if it contains more than one double bond. Double bonds, which are sometimes referred to as unsaturated bonds, may be cis or trans.
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You don't want the easiest--you want the safest.  A lot of diets are dangerous.  The 1960s taught us that low carb diets are dangerous.  You want a balanced diet, low in fat and high in fiber.  You want to burn more calories than you eat if you want to lose weight, but it is dangerous to eat fewer than 1200 calories a day.  To burn the calories, you need to do aerobic exercise (anything fun that gets your heart rate up above 120 or so) for a minimum of 20 minutes a day.  This could be jogging, bicycling, jumping rope, dancing, swimming, brisk walking, basketball, tennis, or whatever you like that will do the job.
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The most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode. \n\nAnother overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.\n\nYou are welcome to look at my 360 Blog of September 10 for more detailed suggestions.\n\nAloha
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There's very little science involved - it's mostly economics.\n\nThe science:  Saturated fats tend to be solid at room temperature.  They are easier to use in food manufacturing operations.\n\nThe economics:  Saturated fats give a better texture and taste to foods than non-saturated fats.  Saturated fats also have a much longer shelf life.  Products made from these fats taste better and last longer, so that's what the consumer is going to buy, whether it's better for their health or not.\n\nEconomically, food companies need to make what people will buy, so the continued use of saturated fats is a no-brainer from their perspective.