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NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE
What Is Fat?
How Omega-3 and Omega-6 affect your health
People keep telling you that life forms consist of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. But how can everything be made up of just a few atoms? Human beings consist of hardly anything else and yet we’re all different — complex systems of biological and chemical processes — that make us unique. In nutrition, carbon ( C ), hydrogen ( H ) and oxygen ( O ) play a fundamental role as well, since eating is nothing but breaking those atoms out of complex food to build and maintain our system.
The entire world is made of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.
This also applies to fat — more precisely fatty acids. Why you need fatty acids for survival, and how the right choice of fatty acids can affect your health, you can discover here.
Fatty acids at prom
Think of it as a dance. At first, all the atoms lost in a big hall, awkward silence, until carbon ( C ) makes the first move. The C-atoms line up in their intended position and then reach out their hands. Each one grabs the hand of their neighbor…
