Article 26 Where Fat Is a Mark of Beauty In a rite of passage‚ some Nigerian girls spend months gaining weight and learning customs in a special room. “To be called a ‘slim princess’ is an abuse‚” says a defender of the practice. By Ann M. Simmons TIMES STAFF WRITER AKPABUYO‚ Nigeria—Margaret Bassey Ene currently has one mission in life: gaining weight. The Nigerian teenager has spent every day since early June in a “fattening room” specially set aside in her father’s mudand-thatch house
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Did that shock you? I mean‚ I’m not a skinny girl‚ for those who know me‚ yes‚ I am indeed quite plump‚ and a little bit wibbly – BUT‚ the title is from a piece of journalism I read by Angela Carter about anorexia. ‘The true cause is a deliberate wish to be slim’ says Palazzoli. As Carter mentions‚ there is considerable pressure on girls to be ‘slim’‚ and as the article was written in 1974‚ it doesn’t seem that much has changed in the past 37 years – in fact the problem has most likely gotten worse
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Body Fat and Eating Disorders Body composition is used to describe the different components‚ that when taken together make up a persons body weight. People who are overweight or excess body fat are at risk of several health condition‚ such as Hypertension‚ Type two diabetes‚ Coronary Heart Disease‚ Stroke‚ Osteoarthritis‚ Some Cancers‚ Sleep apnea‚ and respiratory problems. The proportion of body weight that is fat compared to lean‚ or body composition‚ can be made in a doctor’s office or a health
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Good Fats vs. Bad Fats In today’s society‚ eating healthy is bigger then ever with everyone trying to achieve his or her dream body. Any fitness or diet professional will tell you that the biggest way to alter your appearance is by changing your eating habits. One area of the diet that seems to confuse people when it comes to eating healthy is fat. For years fat in the diet is something that people always try to avoid and have always
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High-fat and Low-fat Diets Today‚ more people suffer from weight and health problems than people from twenty years ago. You may ask why is that‚ and what is the difference between us today and the people of the last generation? Well‚ one main difference is the high-fat and low fat foods that we eat. High-fat and low-fat diets can be the cause of half our problems. People today; choose some sort of diet to help their weight problems. But many people do not know what the bad intake of some foods
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joy … Now‚ as a busy family man myself‚ I know your time is extremely valuable‚ which is why in this fast-paced weight loss report I’m going to quickly GIVE you 3 of my best rapid fat loss insider secrets‚ including how you can strategically begin using foods like pizza and ice cream to immediately accelerate your fat loss results as early as today’s lunch‚ TheFatBurningHormone.com 2 dinner‚ or whenever your next meal is scheduled to roll around. (Sounds far-fetched‚ I know‚ but stick with me
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FATS AND OIL DEFINITION: Fats and oils‚ group of organic substances that form an important part of the diet and also are useful in many industries. The fats are usually solid‚ the oils generally liquid at ordinary room temperatures. Some tropical products‚ liquids in their sites of origin‚ become solids in cooler climates; in commerce these often retain the name originally given‚ e.g.‚ palm oil and coconut oil. Chemically fats and oils are either simple or mixed glyceryl esters of organic acids
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a. SATURATED FATS FROM NONSATURATED FATS An unsaturated fat is a fat or fatty acid in which there is at least one double bond within the fatty acid chain. A fat molecule is monounsaturated if it contains one double bond‚ and polyunsaturated if it contains more than one double bond. Where double bonds are formed‚ hydrogen atoms are eliminated. Thus‚ asaturated fat has no double bonds‚ has the maximum number of hydrogens bonded to the carbons‚ and therefore is "saturated" with hydrogen atoms. In cellularmetabolism
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each point is not fully representative of the concept. Fats and Heart Disease (Units 10-12) 1. Define a fatty acid. 2. Define a triglyceride. 3. Compare and contrast a saturated and unsaturated fatty acid. 4. List food sources of unsaturated (mono- and poly) and saturated fats. 5. What is a sterol? Most common sterol is ______________. 6. List food sources of cholesterol. 7. List functions of fat in the body. 8. What are the two essential fatty acids
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“Fat Tax” Not a Panacea “Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360‚000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic level. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.”- Tom Harkin. Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health‚ leading to reduce life expectancy and/or increased health problems (Wikipedia). To cut that number
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