Is it good to eat lard for a long time?

If you like to eat lard, lard may not bring us harm. We can add a small amount of lard to improve the taste, make the dishes taste better and increase appetite, but don't use lard as cooking oil. If it is edible oil, I suggest you choose vegetable oil. Nowadays, lard has become an unhealthy food in everyone's mind. When it comes to lard, people will think of hyperlipidemia, cholesterol, obesity, three highs, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and other related words, as if all this is caused by lard, which makes people stay away from it.

Lard is an animal fat, such as chicken oil, sheep oil, butter and so on. The difference between animal fat and vegetable fat lies in the ratio of saturated fatty acids to unsaturated fatty acids. Animal fat is rich in saturated fatty acids, which are not harmful to human body. Its main function is to provide energy and energy storage. However, if the intake of saturated fatty acids is too high, it may lead to excessive intake of cholesterol, high blood lipid and obesity. In contrast, unsaturated fatty acids have more obvious effects on human body. Unsaturated fatty acids can be divided into polyunsaturated fatty acids, monounsaturated fatty acids and polyunsaturated fatty acids, also known as "cardioprotective agents", which can prevent a variety of heart diseases.

Moreover, it is also a component of brain neurotransmitters, which can promote brain development and maintain brain health. Monounsaturated fatty acids can increase the content of high density lipoprotein, accelerate the metabolism of cholesterol in blood, clean blood vessels, regulate serum cholesterol concentration, and prevent atherosclerosis and thrombosis. High density lipoprotein is also called "vascular scavenger" and "longevity factor", and unsaturated fatty acids will not form fat quickly. Compared with saturated fats, they are not so easy to make people fat.

With the progress of the times and the improvement of our material conditions, most people can wear warm clothes and eat enough. In fact, everyone's demand for energy is not great. On the contrary, on more occasions, we are having dinner with friends, having a barbecue in the wild, and really eating meat and drinking at the banquet. Life is full of these high-oil and high-fat eating habits, and the status of lard, which mainly provides energy, is gradually decreasing. We eat a lot of animal fat and saturated fat. Eating too much lard will really lead to three highs, but we may recall that in those poor years, we loved to eat lard bibimbap, and we didn't see any obesity and three highs after eating lard bibimbap for three times.

Lard is not a harmful oil, so don't generalize. When we are frequent and lack energy and nutrition, lard is definitely an excellent edible oil. But with the passage of time, in the era of material abundance, perhaps vegetable oil is more beneficial to us.