Weight Loss Tips: The Science of Obesity Part I
Learn more about today’s weight loss tip; how fats and cholesterol affect weight loss.
Eliminating fat and cholesterol from you diet is not the answer to weight loss. The key to weight loss lies in moderating healthy fats while eliminating the unhealthy fats from your diet. Unhealthy fats such as saturated and trans fats are associated with heart disease and obesity. In short, an very unhealthy life.
Dietary cholesterol is found in foods such as meat, eggs, and seafood. Dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol are not the same. The liver makes cholesterol also. When we eliminate cholesterol from our diet, the body has to make more because cholesterol is necessary for health. This in turn can cause unhealthy levels of low density lipoproteins (LDL’s) to high density lipoproteins (HDL’s). Cholesterol is the precursor to many hormones, needed to form cell membranes, and helps make vitamin D. Lipoproteins dissolve the cholesterol in the blood and carrier it to the body.
To be continued ……
by Kristy Haugen
- Read more weight loss tips from this article-The Science of Obesity: Fats & Cholesterol.
Learn more about the science behind obesity causes.
