Fat Loss

Everyone knows about the importance of vitamins in their diet, you’ve no doubt seen government adverts telling you to get 5 portions of fruit and veg a day. Everyone know that fruit and vegatables are healthy you need to eat them if you want to look good, but did you know that a certain amount of dietry fat is also required?

Some of these vitamins actually require fat to work, they are fat soluble.

What are these fat soluble vitamins?

Heres 2 essential vitamins that require fat to work

Vitamin A

What does Vitamin A do? Vitamin A is essential for healthy eyes and skin, it helps maintain healthy teath and bones and regulate your immune system.

What are the sources of Vitamin A?

Sources of Vitamin A include eggs, cheese, beef liver, dark green leafy vegtables like spinach, carrots and pumkin.

Vitamin E

What does Vitamin E do? Vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant, it helps protect body tissue from the damage of oxidation and free radicals. Its also helps in the formation of red blood cells. Red blood cells carry oxygen round your body.

Where can Vitamin E be found?

Sources of Vitamin E include, Whole Grains, nuts, olives, olive and sunflower oil and green leafy vegtables.

So you see fat plays an important role in your diet, that doesn’t mean you should eat a plate of chips with every meal. Try and avoid saturated fats.

Heres some more information about why you need fat and the vitamins it helps transport.

Why do you need Fat?

Dietry fats provide your body with energy (calories).  Fat is usually stored by your body for use as energy later, the problem with living in the 21st Century is we never use this energy, it gets stored up the abodomen and backside being the most common fat reserves.

Eating fat plays a vital role in your health, fat should not be excluded from your dieti but consumed within moderation. Fats provide 9 kcal of energy per gram of fat  in contrast to carbohydrates or proteins that provide only 4 kcal of energy. Besides energy, fats supply a mode of transport for fat soluble vitmamins A, D, E and K. Fats support vital organs in your body like the heart, kidneys and the intestine. Fat under your skin acts as an insulator against cold. The best thing about Fat is it makes food taste better.

Thats why you need fat in your diet.