Fats are essential to a balanced diet and help bodies use certain vitamins as well as maintain healthy skin and hair. While watching the video, learners explore fat, which is certainly talked about a lot in terms of health. The narrator explains the atomic structure and make-up of saturated fats and unsaturated fats and then explains how these differences affect the body. He then discusses trans fats, polyunsaturated fats, monounsaturated fats, and omega-3 fatty acids and each of their roles in the health of the human body. 

Concepts

fats, energy, diet, healthy eating

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Ask classes to research one of the following topics and share findings with the class: When will trans fats be completely banned in the United States? How much fat should we consume daily? What are food sources of each type of fat? 
• Great video to use during a unit on health and wellness or on biomolecules

Classroom Considerations

• The narrator speaks very quickly; closed captioning helps all learners follow along

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• If you turn on auto-translate in settings, the video can be viewed in closed captioning in many different languages
• Video is full of interesting and useful information

Cons

• None

Common Core

RST.9-10.4