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Fats. An excerpt from Nourshing Traditions ENTRY 1This is an excerpt from Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon. The first 75 pages of this book has wonderful information.Fatty acids are classified in the following way: ** Saturated: A fatty acid is saturated when all available carbon bonds are occupied by a hydrogen atom. They are highly stable, because all the carbon-atom linkages are filled--or saturated--with hydrogen. This means that tey do not normally go rancid, even when heated for cooking purposes. They are straight in form and hence pack together easily, so that they form a solid or semisolid fat at room temp. Saturated fatty acids are found mostly in animal fats and tropical oils, and your body also makes them from carbohydrates. **Monounsaturated: Monounsaturated fatty acids have one double bond in the form of two carbon atoms double bonded to each other and therefore lack two hydrogen atoms. Your body makes monounsaturated fatty acids from saturated fatty acids and uses them in many ways. MUS (monounsaturated) fats have a kink or bend at the position of the double bond so that they do not pack together as easily as saturated fats and therefore tend to be liquid at room temp. Like saturated fats, however, they are relatively stable. They do not go rancid easily and hence can be used in cooking. The MUS fatty acid most commonly found in our food is oleic acid, the main component of olive oil, a well as the oils from almonds, pecans, cashews, peanuts and avocados. **Polyunsaturated: PUS (polyunsaturated) fatty acids have 2 or more pairs of double bonds and therefore lack four or more hydrogen atoms. The two PUS fatty acids found most frequently in our foods are double unsaturated linoleic acid, with two double bonds--also called omega 6 and triple unsaturated linolenic acid with three double bonds--also called omega 3. (The omega number indicates the position of the first double bond) Your body cannot make these fatty acids and hence they are called "essential". We must obtain our essential fatty acids or EFA's from the foods we eat. PUS fatty acids have kinks or turns at the position of the double bond and hence do not pack together easily. They remain liquid even when refrigerated. The unpaired electrons at the double bonds make these oils highly reactive. They go rancid easily, particularly omega 3 linolenic acid and must be treated with care. PUS oils should never be heated or used in cooking. In nature, PUS fatty acids are usually found in the cis form, which means that both hydrogen atoms at the double bond are on the same side. This is kind of "technical" but......it helps you to understand later pages in this book. Amazing information. I will post more later!! 07:31 - Friday, January 11, 2008 - post comment
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