Weight Loss: Good Fats vs Bad Fats

How do you know which fats are beneficial and which are toxic? Very basically it all boils down to molecular structure, and how the differently formed fat molecules affect your body. Let’s start with the good fats: the fats considered to be healthiest come from plants and vegetables and are known as unsaturated. Unsaturated fat molecules contain at least one pair of carbons linked by a double-bond. Since hydrogen cannot break this bond and therefore cannot bond with all of the carbon present, any fat molecule with one or more double-bonded carbon is considered “unsaturated” by hydrogen.

Good Fats

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