Anti-Aging Strategies

Most desperation dieters do a couple of very predictable things. First, they radically reduce the quantity of food they eat. Second, they go on a crusade to eliminate fat. Although cutting down on the fat may be good if kept within rational bounds, cutting it out entirely is not only unnecessary but potentially unsafe, especially among children (don't forget essential fatty acids).

We certainly don't require nearly as much fatcertainly not as much as the average American consumesbut we do need to eat a basic minimum of the so-called essential fats required to maintain cell or nerve membrane synthesis. Cholesterol, believe it or not, is important for the production of steroids, which are so important in the manufacturing of hormones. Fats (including cholesterol) are components of the myelin that is a critical part of your nerve sheaths. Lipids (fats) are therefore essential to the health of your brain and the senses linking you to the outside world. That devil cholesterol also turns out to be an important part of the structure of your cell walls as well as a major component of your sex hormones.

Nevertheless, fat and cholesterol are prime suspects for causing heart disease. Left unmetabolized, cholesterol will deposit itself