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  1. What can you find out about the type of fat called "trans fats."  What type of fat is this and would it be classified as a good or bad fat, and if so, why?   What types of foods contain trans fats?  
  2. What is the relationship between trans fats and something called hydrogenation?
  3. what can you tell me about omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids and their role in disease prevention and health?
  4. Are these "good" fats?
  5. What foods contain omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids?
  6. Do you consume foods containing these type of fats? Should you?
  7. Proteins are also classified as either essential or non-essential. What is the difference between these two classifications?  
  8. Protein differs from Lipids and Carbohydrates in one essential component.  What is that component and why does this make protein so unique and different than the other two macro-nutrients?
  9. Remember, if you consumed your entire protein intake through meat, no other food containing protein would be needed?  This tells us, that the majority of us consume more protein than we need.
  10. Is that a problem? What are the health concerns of too much protein?

 

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Hydrogenation is a process in which Unsaturated fatty acids may be converted to saturated fatty acids by the relatively simple hydrogenation reaction. During this process, trans fat are produced as a side reaction with the catalyst of the hydrogenation process. Trans fat raise "bad" LDL- cholesterol and lower "good" HDL-cholesterol, but 

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