your fat ass
I started summer school yesterday - Nutrition. It's science credit for non-sci majors (I just need 3 credits) so I better get an A. I think I will from the looks of the syllabus - only about 20% new material for me. Man with a gorgeous French African accent is teaching, so it's a pleasure to listen.
Since this seemed to raise a lot of interest in class, the deal is:
Saturated fats are fatty acids (chains of carbon plus other stuff) in single bonds. Saturated fat by itself is usually solid at room temperature - butter, lard, cheese, the fat in meat. Has health benefits in small doses.
Monounsaturated fats are the good kinds, fatty acids with 1 double bond in the chain. Olive and peanut oils, avocados, nuts. Healthy.
Polyunsaturated fats have more than one double bond. Very healthy in small doses. Oily fish like salmon is polyunsaturated. These are the "omega" oils, referring to its caboose position in the molecule.
Hydrogenated or trans fats occurs when hydrogen is (sometimes) forced into the fatty acid chain into a double bond. In margarine and diet foods - avoid if at all possible. (It's a trans isomer, which has to do with conformation).
So eat salmon cooked in olive oil and you're golden. In other words - the mediterranean diet.
Cats That Look Like Hitler. May 31 has my vote.
Check out these cute cartoons by Natalie Dee.
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