What are fats and why is it important to know how much fat there is in certain foods?
Fats are essential to normal health to normal growth and development. In laboratory animals that have been reared without fat, they don’t survive for long. We need fat, it’s a good energy source, it’s a form of stored energy, it’s an insulator for our tissues, it’s a cushion for our vital organs. So we need to have fat and it’s an important constituent of our diet. Fats come from a whole host of sources, animal and plant. It’s important for us to try to limit those kinds of fats that have been shown to have adverse effects on our health, primarily on our vascular system — on our circulation.
