I thought that the video was super cool. I love how the video can be in animation so it is easier to comprehend. This was really cute and I really enjoyed watching this. It taught me so much about fats, although I wished that it told me a little bit more about the fats in other things. (Such as meat because I am a vegetarian, and really enjoy learning about what is healthy for you.) This was a really intriguing article and I really enjoyed learning about what fat is. This cute little cartoon characters were super cool, and I loved seeing this animation. Although I did have a few questions as to what would have if the video went into more depth, I thought that this was a very fact-full article/ video. I enjoy and look forward to watching more ted ed talks. Over all, I thought that this article was super cool. Emily, you chose a really good video to post!
Wow! This video was very interesting. I have always seen trans fats and saturated fats on boxes of crackers or candy, but I had no idea what they actually were. I had also never heard of the CIS fats before which were very interesting to me. I thought that trans fats were not that bad for you! And when they say olive oil is good for you, it is not technically true because it does have some fat in it, but it is by far better for you than pancakes.
I didn't think that there were fats that were good for you! I always just thought that some fats were worse for you than others, or some foods just had more fat. But after the pancake mix/olive oil example, I thought differently. When I was little, I used to look at the nutrition facts on foods, seeing how much each food had. When I looked at the fats, I saw that it said saturated fats, trans fats, etc. But I never actually realized that there were different kinds of fats that were good and bad for you. I disagree with Jacob when he says that the olive oil has "some fat". If you had listened to the video, they actually said olive oil was pretty much 100% fat, but it was made up of unsaturated fats (Although I have to admit that it's not the healthiest thing in the world). I love how TED ed takes something interesting and makes it into an understandable, kid-friendly video. I liked this one a lot!
This video was really informative. I thought all fats were bad for me. I knew trans fat was bad for me, but I never knew unsaturated fat did cause bad diseases like, heart disease. I have never heard of CIS fat, but I wonder if it is not in a lot of foods that is why I don't know about it. I really liked that the video was an animation because I think it made me understand the concepts more. For example, when it showed how the molecules could be shaped, I understood it more since I could see it. Also, the clip went into depth in every aspect so I didn't have questions at the end.
Before watching this video, I just thought that "fats" made you fat. But now this video showed me that the kind of fat that I eat matters a lot more than the amount of it. Also, I never knew that the bonds between the molecules and the shapes around those bonds is what makes the fat good or bad for you. Secondly, I find it crazy that the FDA allows companies to say that there are 0 grams of trans fat even if there is some. This also makes it possible for companies to make small servings so that they can say that they have no trans fat in their product. The FDA should not allow that. At least I now know to look for "partially hydrogenated" to see if the food is good or bad for me. In conclusion, I think that this video was very informative and taught me a lot about fats. Again, TED Ed brings us a very good video. I give this video a 4 out of 5 stars.
I thought this video was very interesting. Firstly, I didn't know that Olive Oil was 100% made of fat, when pancake mix, is only 11% fat. And, yet Olive Oil is healthy for, and pancake mix is bad for you. I thought that it was how much fat you ate that was related to your cholesterol, and obesity. As it turns out, what type of fat you eat is more important than how much. Next, I didn't know that fat is actually made up of molecules called triglycerides. They aren't all alike. Glycerol is what holds all the fat together, like the back bone. There are also "fatty acids." This is what determines what type of fat it is. whether it's solid, or liquid, and whether or not it goes rancid quickly. But most importantly, if it's good or bad for you. One difference is the length of the fatty acids, they can be short, or long. Another, more important type of difference is the type of bonds between the carbon atoms. Some fatty acids have only single bonds, while others have both single and double bonds. Fatty acids with only single bonds are called saturated, and those with one or more double bonds are called unsaturated. Mostly, unstirred fats are good for you, while saturated fats in excess are bad for you. The unsaturated fats have an interesting property to them, they're rigid. This means, there are two ways to arrange these unsaturated fats. One, is to arrange them to which both hydrogen atoms are on the same side, and both carbons are on the same side, this is called CIS. The second way is when both the carbon and hydrogens are on opposite sides, this is called TRANS. Arranging plays a big role in the type of fat, even if they are both made up of the same type of molecules. Trans is terrible for your health, and much worse than saturated fats. The only way to know if a food had trans fat, is if you see the words, partially hydrogenated in the ingredient list. I find it very annoying to hear that the FDA allows manufacturers to claim that their products contain "0g" of trans fat, even if they have up to half a gram of fat per serving. And, there isn't any restriction to say how small your serving becomes. To make Trans fat, you must partially hydrogenate an unsaturated fat. In conclusion, Olive oil is mostly made up of unsaturated fats, and has absolutely no trans fat, while more that half of the fat in pancake mix is either saturated fat or trans fat. By the way Lilah, the video said that it olive oil was mostly made up of unsaturated fat. This is a little less than pretty much 100% unsaturated fat.
The fat video is really interesting and I think it does a pretty good of explaining the difference between a trans fat and a saturated fat. I think that the video should have gone in to a little more detail on other kinds of fat. For instance when I looked at the label for olive oil under Nutrition facts I see two other types of fat that he did not mentioned in the video, polyunsaturated fat and monounsaturated fat. From the American Heart Association's web site I see that monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats “are simply fats that have double-bonded (unsaturated) carbon in the molecule.” Maybe he left Polyunsaturated fat and Monounsaturated fat out of the video because they are double-bonded and (unsaturated), but since they are both in olive oil it would have been nice if he had mentioned them. One very important thing he mentioned in the video is that you have to read the label on products you buy. When I looked at our pancake mix at home it did not have any partially hydrogenated fats, so I checked 5 other brands at the store. Three brands had partially hydrogenated fats while two did not have any any partially hydrogenated fats listed. All had saturated fats to different percentages. Not all Saturated fats are equally harmful, some such as stearic acid in pure chocolate is good for you. Just because you eat fat, does not mean that you become fat, our bodies metabolizes all the calories that we eat using some right away and depositing others. Also, some fats contain vitamins that are vital for us, but our body can't manufacture them. Some help build cell membranes, the exterior casing of each cel. There are two main types of polyunsaturated fats: omega-3 fatty acids and omega-6 fatty acids.
I liked this video. I learned this before in a summer camp, but I didn't know that trans fats are a kind of unsaturated fats. I also did not know the molecule shapes. I also the animations of the video. It was a neat way of explaining a hard subject. The one thing I didn't like is how fast the speaker was talking. It only made sense to me because I the material and because I paused the video several times. Overall this was a good video.
This video, even though I have already watched it, is still interesting. When I first watched it, I felt like the people in the video, who had no clue what he was talking about. Then after I did some research, I found a website that made the video make sense. Here is a link: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/heart/healthy/fat.html
I loved the part where he told us to look for the words: PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED. This video really changed my perspective of fats.
In my perspective, this video was uninteresting to me. Sure, people like animation, but that doesn't hide the fact that information was severely lacking. Firstly, about the animation: what was the narrator supposed to represent? Why those two people? There was no introduction, he just started talking. After that, "it" went on to describe what fat is, and emphasized that it: DOESN'T MATTER HOW MUCH FAT WE EAT, IT'S ABOUT WHAT KIND OF FAT. I know some people may be less knowledgable than others, but really? I feel like this is something that does not have to be stated, common knowledge, in other words. Do you think you are eating the same type of fat on you body? I am surprised nobody has ever heard of good fat and bad fat. Then, it described how some fats can be good and bad for you. I personally felt that they assumed we already had knowledge on this topic, which I think was okay, as we had a unit on it last year. A review/recap would have been good. Lastly, practically half the video was spent on how to analyze a box for trans fat! I think that we should begin to start choosing more informative, complex articles, not colorful, animated videos.
Also, I found it funny that the people in the video had a confused look on their face. That was me for the first minute of the video. It just shows that the narrator was not doing a very good job of explaining.
From watching this interesting video about how fat is determined by it's shape, it got me thinking how code is similar to fat. Depending on how it's written or in this case shaped. It's cool how order and arrangement makes such a big difference in everything in this universe, like time's order of events or frames in a movie. It's also neat how it relates to other things such as chain reactions.
This video taught me alot about fat, and how to molecules work. I never knew that the type of fat can impact your health this much, as even though olive oil is 100 percent fat, it is healthy because it is made up of unsaturated fats, while pancake mix and other products contain many saturated fats and trans fat, making them unhealthy. It is interesting how the healthiness of a fatty acid is determined by its shape. It can be short or long, and it may have single or double bonds to link together the molecules. The video, however, should have gone more in depth with the types of fat, saturated and unsaturated and more types of foods and how they can impact your health (don't pick on the pancake mix!). This is also a very good lesson for keeping yourself healthy. Always be on the lookout for that "party hydrogenated" label. The FDA should not allow companies to advertise that they have no trans fat unless they really have no trans fat, because eating many servings without knowing it is partially hydrogenated may lead to unwanted fat in your body. I thought that this video was informative, but it could have gone a bit deeper.
I thought that this video was really interesting. I did not know that different types of fats had different impacts on your body. I noticed that I looked to see what fats were in everything that I ate. I have more saturated fats than trans fats. I always thought that all fats were the same except for the names and a few small differences.
I agree with Jacob that olive oil has some other fats in it. If you listened to the video carefully, you would notice that it said that olive oil was mostly made up of unsaturated fats. That means that there are other fats in it. I wonder what those fats are.
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I thought that the video was super cool. I love how the video can be in animation so it is easier to comprehend. This was really cute and I really enjoyed watching this. It taught me so much about fats, although I wished that it told me a little bit more about the fats in other things. (Such as meat because I am a vegetarian, and really enjoy learning about what is healthy for you.) This was a really intriguing article and I really enjoyed learning about what fat is. This cute little cartoon characters were super cool, and I loved seeing this animation. Although I did have a few questions as to what would have if the video went into more depth, I thought that this was a very fact-full article/ video. I enjoy and look forward to watching more ted ed talks. Over all, I thought that this article was super cool. Emily, you chose a really good video to post!
Wow! This video was very interesting. I have always seen trans fats and saturated fats on boxes of crackers or candy, but I had no idea what they actually were. I had also never heard of the CIS fats before which were very interesting to me. I thought that trans fats were not that bad for you! And when they say olive oil is good for you, it is not technically true because it does have some fat in it, but it is by far better for you than pancakes.
I didn't think that there were fats that were good for you! I always just thought that some fats were worse for you than others, or some foods just had more fat. But after the pancake mix/olive oil example, I thought differently. When I was little, I used to look at the nutrition facts on foods, seeing how much each food had. When I looked at the fats, I saw that it said saturated fats, trans fats, etc. But I never actually realized that there were different kinds of fats that were good and bad for you.
I disagree with Jacob when he says that the olive oil has "some fat". If you had listened to the video, they actually said olive oil was pretty much 100% fat, but it was made up of unsaturated fats (Although I have to admit that it's not the healthiest thing in the world).
I love how TED ed takes something interesting and makes it into an understandable, kid-friendly video. I liked this one a lot!
This video was really informative. I thought all fats were bad for me. I knew trans fat was bad for me, but I never knew unsaturated fat did cause bad diseases like, heart disease. I have never heard of CIS fat, but I wonder if it is not in a lot of foods that is why I don't know about it. I really liked that the video was an animation because I think it made me understand the concepts more. For example, when it showed how the molecules could be shaped, I understood it more since I could see it. Also, the clip went into depth in every aspect so I didn't have questions at the end.
Before watching this video, I just thought that "fats" made you fat. But now this video showed me that the kind of fat that I eat matters a lot more than the amount of it. Also, I never knew that the bonds between the molecules and the shapes around those bonds is what makes the fat good or bad for you.
Secondly, I find it crazy that the FDA allows companies to say that there are 0 grams of trans fat even if there is some. This also makes it possible for companies to make small servings so that they can say that they have no trans fat in their product. The FDA should not allow that.
At least I now know to look for "partially hydrogenated" to see if the food is good or bad for me.
In conclusion, I think that this video was very informative and taught me a lot about fats. Again, TED Ed brings us a very good video. I give this video a 4 out of 5 stars.
I thought this video was very interesting. Firstly, I didn't know that Olive Oil was 100% made of fat, when pancake mix, is only 11% fat. And, yet Olive Oil is healthy for, and pancake mix is bad for you. I thought that it was how much fat you ate that was related to your cholesterol, and obesity. As it turns out, what type of fat you eat is more important than how much. Next, I didn't know that fat is actually made up of molecules called triglycerides. They aren't all alike. Glycerol is what holds all the fat together, like the back bone. There are also "fatty acids." This is what determines what type of fat it is. whether it's solid, or liquid, and whether or not it goes rancid quickly. But most importantly, if it's good or bad for you. One difference is the length of the fatty acids, they can be short, or long. Another, more important type of difference is the type of bonds between the carbon atoms. Some fatty acids have only single bonds, while others have both single and double bonds. Fatty acids with only single bonds are called saturated, and those with one or more double bonds are called unsaturated. Mostly, unstirred fats are good for you, while saturated fats in excess are bad for you. The unsaturated fats have an interesting property to them, they're rigid. This means, there are two ways to arrange these unsaturated fats. One, is to arrange them to which both hydrogen atoms are on the same side, and both carbons are on the same side, this is called CIS. The second way is when both the carbon and hydrogens are on opposite sides, this is called TRANS. Arranging plays a big role in the type of fat, even if they are both made up of the same type of molecules. Trans is terrible for your health, and much worse than saturated fats. The only way to know if a food had trans fat, is if you see the words, partially hydrogenated in the ingredient list. I find it very annoying to hear that the FDA allows manufacturers to claim that their products contain "0g" of trans fat, even if they have up to half a gram of fat per serving. And, there isn't any restriction to say how small your serving becomes. To make Trans fat, you must partially hydrogenate an unsaturated fat. In conclusion, Olive oil is mostly made up of unsaturated fats, and has absolutely no trans fat, while more that half of the fat in pancake mix is either saturated fat or trans fat.
By the way Lilah, the video said that it olive oil was mostly made up of unsaturated fat. This is a little less than pretty much 100% unsaturated fat.
The fat video is really interesting and I think it does a pretty good of explaining the difference between a trans fat and a saturated fat. I think that the video should have gone in to a little more detail on other kinds of fat. For instance when I looked at the label for olive oil under Nutrition facts I see two other types of fat that he did not mentioned in the video, polyunsaturated fat and monounsaturated fat. From the American Heart Association's web site I see that monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats “are simply fats that have double-bonded (unsaturated) carbon in the molecule.” Maybe he left Polyunsaturated fat and Monounsaturated fat out of the video because they are double-bonded and (unsaturated), but since they are both in olive oil it would have been nice if he had mentioned them. One very important thing he mentioned in the video is that you have to read the label on products you buy. When I looked at our pancake mix at home it did not have any partially hydrogenated fats, so I checked 5 other brands at the store. Three brands had partially hydrogenated fats while two did not have any any partially hydrogenated fats listed. All had saturated fats to different percentages. Not all Saturated fats are equally harmful, some such as stearic acid in pure chocolate is good for you. Just because you eat fat, does not mean that you become fat, our bodies metabolizes all the calories that we eat using some right away and depositing others. Also, some fats contain vitamins that are vital for us, but our body can't manufacture them. Some help build cell membranes, the exterior casing of each cel. There are two main types of polyunsaturated fats: omega-3 fatty acids and omega-6 fatty acids.
I liked this video. I learned this before in a summer camp, but I didn't know that trans fats are a kind of unsaturated fats. I also did not know the molecule shapes. I also the animations of the video. It was a neat way of explaining a hard subject. The one thing I didn't like is how fast the speaker was talking. It only made sense to me because I the material and because I paused the video several times. Overall this was a good video.
This video, even though I have already watched it, is still interesting. When I first watched it, I felt like the people in the video, who had no clue what he was talking about. Then after I did some research, I found a website that made the video make sense.
Here is a link: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/heart/healthy/fat.html
I loved the part where he told us to look for the words: PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED. This video really changed my perspective of fats.
In my perspective, this video was uninteresting to me. Sure, people like animation, but that doesn't hide the fact that information was severely lacking. Firstly, about the animation: what was the narrator supposed to represent? Why those two people? There was no introduction, he just started talking. After that, "it" went on to describe what fat is, and emphasized that it: DOESN'T MATTER HOW MUCH FAT WE EAT, IT'S ABOUT WHAT KIND OF FAT. I know some people may be less knowledgable than others, but really? I feel like this is something that does not have to be stated, common knowledge, in other words. Do you think you are eating the same type of fat on you body? I am surprised nobody has ever heard of good fat and bad fat. Then, it described how some fats can be good and bad for you. I personally felt that they assumed we already had knowledge on this topic, which I think was okay, as we had a unit on it last year. A review/recap would have been good. Lastly, practically half the video was spent on how to analyze a box for trans fat! I think that we should begin to start choosing more informative, complex articles, not colorful, animated videos.
Also, I found it funny that the people in the video had a confused look on their face. That was me for the first minute of the video. It just shows that the narrator was not doing a very good job of explaining.
From watching this interesting video about how fat is determined by it's shape, it got me thinking how code is similar to fat. Depending on how it's written or in this case shaped. It's cool how order and arrangement makes such a big difference in everything in this universe, like time's order of events or frames in a movie. It's also neat how it relates to other things such as chain reactions.
This video taught me alot about fat, and how to molecules work. I never knew that the type of fat can impact your health this much, as even though olive oil is 100 percent fat, it is healthy because it is made up of unsaturated fats, while pancake mix and other products contain many saturated fats and trans fat, making them unhealthy. It is interesting how the healthiness of a fatty acid is determined by its shape. It can be short or long, and it may have single or double bonds to link together the molecules. The video, however, should have gone more in depth with the types of fat, saturated and unsaturated and more types of foods and how they can impact your health (don't pick on the pancake mix!). This is also a very good lesson for keeping yourself healthy. Always be on the lookout for that "party hydrogenated" label. The FDA should not allow companies to advertise that they have no trans fat unless they really have no trans fat, because eating many servings without knowing it is partially hydrogenated may lead to unwanted fat in your body. I thought that this video was informative, but it could have gone a bit deeper.
I thought that this video was really interesting. I did not know that different types of fats had different impacts on your body. I noticed that I looked to see what fats were in everything that I ate. I have more saturated fats than trans fats. I always thought that all fats were the same except for the names and a few small differences.
I agree with Jacob that olive oil has some other fats in it. If you listened to the video carefully, you would notice that it said that olive oil was mostly made up of unsaturated fats. That means that there are other fats in it. I wonder what those fats are.
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