What’s on the Fats poster
A 5-row table: Type · Found in · Effect on LDL.
By chemical structure, which determines their behaviour and effects.
- Saturated — Butter, red meat, coconut — Raises
- Monounsaturated — Olive oil, avocado, nuts — Lowers
- Polyunsaturated — Oily fish, seeds, walnuts — Lowers
- Omega-3 — Oily fish, flaxseed — Anti-inflammatory
- Trans (artificial) — Some processed food — Raises LDL, lowers HDL
Artificial trans fats are banned or restricted in many countries. They are the one fat with no established safe level.
Questions about the Fats poster
- What’s on the Fats poster?
- A 5-row table: Type · Found in · Effect on LDL. By chemical structure, which determines their behaviour and effects. Saturated — Butter, red meat, coconut — Raises; Monounsaturated — Olive oil, avocado, nuts — Lowers; Polyunsaturated — Oily fish, seeds, walnuts — Lowers; Omega-3 — Oily fish, flaxseed — Anti-inflammatory; Trans (artificial) — Some processed food — Raises LDL, lowers HDL. Artificial trans fats are banned or restricted in many countries. They are the one fat with no established safe level.
- Who is the Fats poster for?
- Fats belongs to the Body & health section rather than to a school year, because health is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning nutrition can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Fats poster?
- Replace saturated fat with unsaturated fat rather than with refined carbohydrate. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Fats belongs on the wall where that health work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Fats?
- Added Sugar, Alcohol Units and Caffeine sit alongside Fats in the Body & health section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Added SugarAlcohol UnitsCaffeine
- Is the Fats poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Fats downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Body & health section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Fats poster print at?
- Fats is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Fats loses nothing.Printing guide
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