I found the information for my project from reliable sources on the internet and from my high school chemistry teacher. This project is the results of months of research and a basic understanding of the science of body fat.
I am only a high school student and not a professional nor an expert on this subject, but I strongly believe that I presented accurate facts about how fat occurs during weight gain and loss and the different types of fats that exist.
There are a lot of misconceptions about fat. For instance, we frequently hear about how it is bad for your health, how losing more calories than you consume will guarantee your weight loss or how fat turns into energy. These statements are not completely false, but the facts aren’t as simple as that.
You …show more content…
As you can see in Document 5, the monounsaturated fat holds only one double bond, meanwhile, in the structure of the polyunsaturated fat, you can see two double bonds. Polyunsaturated fat can also have more than two double bonds.
Unsaturated fat has been proven to strengthen the heart and prevent it from diseases.
A very long time ago, our ancestors had to find their own food. It wasn’t as simple as ordering by phone Chinese food or going to stop by the grocery store and the amount of glucose in our foods is much higher than in what our ancestor ate. We constantly need energy in order to survive. That is where fat comes to save the world.
The glucose of the food you consumed moves in the bloodstream and goes into the important cells of your body, such as the muscle cells, the heart cells and the brain cells to help it function or to repair itself. In the bloodstream, there is an important hormone created from the pancreas that acts as a gate for those cells, deciding how much glucose could enter into the cells. We call it insulin. Then, the excess goes to the fat cells, which acts as a deposit in case the important cells need some
I am only a high school student and not a professional nor an expert on this subject, but I strongly believe that I presented accurate facts about how fat occurs during weight gain and loss and the different types of fats that exist.
There are a lot of misconceptions about fat. For instance, we frequently hear about how it is bad for your health, how losing more calories than you consume will guarantee your weight loss or how fat turns into energy. These statements are not completely false, but the facts aren’t as simple as that.
You …show more content…
As you can see in Document 5, the monounsaturated fat holds only one double bond, meanwhile, in the structure of the polyunsaturated fat, you can see two double bonds. Polyunsaturated fat can also have more than two double bonds.
Unsaturated fat has been proven to strengthen the heart and prevent it from diseases.
A very long time ago, our ancestors had to find their own food. It wasn’t as simple as ordering by phone Chinese food or going to stop by the grocery store and the amount of glucose in our foods is much higher than in what our ancestor ate. We constantly need energy in order to survive. That is where fat comes to save the world.
The glucose of the food you consumed moves in the bloodstream and goes into the important cells of your body, such as the muscle cells, the heart cells and the brain cells to help it function or to repair itself. In the bloodstream, there is an important hormone created from the pancreas that acts as a gate for those cells, deciding how much glucose could enter into the cells. We call it insulin. Then, the excess goes to the fat cells, which acts as a deposit in case the important cells need some