• It provides greatest energy source per gram of food give details 1gm of oil gives 9 calories.
• Fat acts as an insulator and thus maintains body temperature.
  This is particularly important for people living in cold or extreme cold climates.
• Fat improves the taste, aroma, texture of the food and also helps in digestion.
  e.g. Fried potato chips tests better than just boiled potato pieces.
• Fat carries fat soluble vitamins like A D E and K.
  In absence of fat our body cannot access these vitamins from the food we eat.
• When in diet, saturated fat is replaced with monounsaturated fat could give a good impact on blood cholesterol level.
• Fat provide essential fatty acids. Human body does not manufacture these.
• Fat protects internal organs from shock and injury.
• Good FAT and Essential Fatty Acids consumed in right proportions give good impact on human health.

How some Dietary FATs are bad to us:

.... Too Much Is Too Bad Disproportionate and/or high intake of dietary fat, combined with sedentary life style could become a risk factor associated with cardiovascular disease. E.g. Saturated Fat raises blood cholesterol levels. High blood cholesterol is one of risk factors linked to coronary heart disease. High intake of fat could make it hard to maintain healthy body weight. It is important to know about cholesterol. Its relations with excess fat intake, lack of physical activities in daily lives and cardiovascular disease.

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