What are bad fats and good fats and what do these fats contain?

Level: Intermediate, Secondary

One of our favourite health sites is called KidsHealth. It has 3 sections: for parents, for kids and for teens. They each have a search box which searches across all three sites.

HOT TIP: Type fats in the search box which will bring up a list of articles on that topic. The articles will have the letter K, T or P beside them to show that they are suitable for Kids, Teens or Parents.

Look through the list for article titled Learning About Fats.  Scroll to the bottom and click on page 2 to see information about types of fats including trans fats. 

You can also do a search on Google using these keywords, "good fats" "bad fats"

HOT TIP: When searching google, if you put double speech marks " " around your keywords, google will search for it as a phrase. Very handy if you're looking for something in particular and you know the words will be in that order.

Look for websites that in the list that have .edu or .gov in the website address.  These are quality sites from educational institutions such as schools and universities and from governments.