Fats

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Nutrition Worksheets:

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1. What are Fats, chemically? How do you distinguish saturated, monosaturated, and poly saturated fats at a chemical level?

2. What does the "omega" mean in omega-6 and omega-3 fats?

3. Which fatty acids are essential to human health and what do they (and other fats) do for us?

4. What's so cool about lipoproteins?