Good Calories And Bad Calories
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A calorie is a unit of energy and the amount of calories present in a certain kind and quantity of food is a measure of the potential energy it contains.
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People are obsessed with finding the difference between good calories and bad calories and trying to figure out foods with good calories.
The minds of many people are tuned to think that all fats are bad. The logic behind such thinking comes from the fact that a gram of carbohydrate contains 4 calories; a gram of protein also contains 4 calories; but a gram of fat contains 9 calories, which is almost double the calorie content of both carbohydrates and proteins. That is the reason why foods rich in fats have much more calories than foods rich in proteins or carbohydrates.
Not all types of fats are harmful. Saturated fats, which are in a solid state at room temperature (such as butter palm kernel oil and coconut oil or the fat present on meat) and Trans fats (found in fried foods like French fries, cookies, doughnuts, whole dairy and meat products) raise the blood cholesterol levels in our body, thereby increasing the chances of a person developing heart diseases. The safer varieties of fats are the unsaturated fats such as polyunsaturated fat (which are found in soybean, corn, sesame, sunflower oils, or fish and fish oils) and monounsaturated fat (which are found in olives, olive oil or canola oil, most nuts and their oils, and avocados) which are in liquid state at room temperature.
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