Brain Power & Biology
This organ, crucial for acing your exams at Holy Innocents, is roughly 60 percent fat by dry weight.
What is the brain?
This cold-pressed, extra virgin oil comes from a fruit and is listed as a staple traditional fat.
What is olive oil?
This specific oil holds the title of the most common oil found in ultra-processed foods.
What is soybean oil?
This pink-fleshed fish is highlighted as an excellent source of Omega-3s.
What is salmon?
According to "The Simple Test," if a fat is named for a nut, a coconut, or an avocado, it came from this place.
What is a kitchen?
For student athletes, Omega-3 fatty acids are vital because they reduce inflammation and aid in this post-workout process.
What is recovery from training?
This traditional fat, which is clarified butter, is highly recommended for cooking meals.
What is ghee?
If you grab a quick bite at a restaurant after school in Long Beach, the fryer oil used is almost always this general type of oil that represents soybean, canola, corn, sunflower, safflower, and cottonseed oils .
What is seed oil?
To get the best Omega-3 benefits from beef, you should look for beef raised on this specific diet.
What is grass-fed?
If an oil is named for the seed, the bean, or this yellow vegetable, it was made in a factory.
What is corn?
The curriculum describes the public-health dietary trend of the 1980s and 90s as this kind of "mistake" whose consequences are still being unwound.
What is the "low-fat" era?
Lard, tallow, duck fat, and beef fat all fall under this broader category of traditional fats.
What are animal fats?
If a bottle at the grocery store just says "Vegetable oil," it is typically a blend of this specific bean.
What is soybean oil?
These two plant-based options starting with 'W' and 'F' are listed as great sources of Omega-3s.
What are walnuts and flax?
Margarine and butter substitutes fall into this dangerous "X" category of fats on the curriculum's chart.
What are industrial seed oils?
Beyond building cell membranes and helping vitamin absorption, your body requires fat to produce these chemical messengers.
What are hormones?
When choosing eggs to get your healthy fats, the text specifically recommends buying this type.
What are pasture-raised eggs?
Industrial seed oils are extracted using heat and these substances, refining them far beyond anything a home kitchen could produce.
What are chemical solvents?
Sardines, mackerel, and herring all fall under this specific two-word category of fish.
What is fatty fish?
Performing "The Simple Test" means reading this part of the packaging to see where seed oils slip into crackers and granola bars.
What is the ingredient list?
Dietary fat is strictly required for your body to absorb these four specific fat-soluble vitamins.
What are vitamins A, D, E, and K?
If you want to fry up some potatoes, this traditional beef fat is a recommended alternative to seed oils.
What is tallow?
Humans have only eaten industrial seed oils in significant quantities since roughly this decade, which tracks closely with rising rates of metabolic disease.
What is the 1950s?
Omega-3s are crucial for teenagers because they aid recovery, reduce inflammation, and support this vital function.
What is brain function?
One of the highest-leverage changes teenagers can make is cutting this specific type of food, which removes most of the industrial oil from their diet.
What is ultra-processed food?