Extent to which Saturated Fats do Human Health Damage

Question asked by many, printed in books of different languages, promoted world over through different promotion options like news channels, newspaper, news spread by various health journals, health organizations, ''Saturated fats envious to human body health." Yes, saturated fats harm human body. Yes, it is true that saturated fat harms human body. So, today we will discuss, "What harms saturated fats do to human body?" But, before discussing harms which saturated fats do to human body, I ask you a question. Question is, do you know what saturated fats are? Which fat type is called saturated fat?

Saturated fats are one of the types of fat. They are solid in nature and get liquefied on heating and turns semi-solid in moderately warm environment. Chemically, structural organization wise, saturated fats consists of triglycerides made of only saturated fatty acids. Now, what are these saturated fatty acids? Saturated fatty acids are those fatty acids which have no double bonds between individual carbon atoms of their fatty acid chain; due to which saturated fatty acids chain is strong enough and does not get broken easily. This is reason why saturated fats are solid in nature.

Now, coming back to topic, "What harms saturated fats do to human body?" The harms which saturated fats do to human body are as follow-

1. Saturated fats are found in butter, ghee, coconut oil, cream, mozzarella cheese, meat, yellow part of egg, if consumed in excess for lot of years can cause insulin resistance and also increases your blood cholesterol level above normal.

2. Saturated fat consumption for lot of years in excess quantity can cause diabetes by causing insulin resistance. Diabetes is not only precursor to coronary artery disease, ischaemic heart disease, but can also cause these disease, if not controlled at right time.

3. Saturated fat consumption in excess above normal limit by human for lot of years can cause platelet aggregation and clot formation in arteries which result in arteriosclerosis of arteries which increases your chances of suffering from various thrombotic diseases.

4. Consuming saturated fat in excess in your diet can do grievous damage to your heart health and causes fatty liver diseases and pancreas damage. It increases your chances of suffering from various vascular diseases, especially thrombotic artery diseases. Chances of having stroke become huge, if any of your heart artery vessel get blocked by thrombotic clot due to too much fat accumulated inside' due to consuming saturated fats in excess for lot of years.

5. Consuming in excess saturated fats through consumption of saturated fats rich food, beverages for lot of years causes blood pressure bounce and causes chronic hypertension along with causing hyperlipidemia and make your body obese and lipoma in fatty body parts.

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