In my recent articles I have been focussing on dietary fat.  Today I want to discuss monounsaturated fat in a little bit more detail. WHAT IS MONOUNSATURATED FAT? All fats are constructed from a chain of carbon and hydrogen atoms.  The way these atoms are chemically bonded together decides which type of fat it will be.  With monounsaturated fats (also known as monounsaturated fatty acids or MUFAs) the carbon atoms are bonded to hydrogen atoms at all but one point.  At this one point there is a double bond between two of the carbon atoms.  So in other words the carbon atoms are not fully … [Read more...]