What is MUFA and why is it important in the flat-belly diet?
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It is the "good fat."
There are five major categories of MUFAs: (1) oils, (2) nuts and seeds, (3) avocado, (4) olives, and (5) chocolate. Examples include avocado, canola oil, olive oil, nuts like almonds, cashews, pecans, and peanuts, olives, peanut butter, peanut oil, or sesame seeds to your diet
Eating them is supposed to "help reduce your accumulation of dangerous belly fat; control your calorie intake and you'll lose inches and pounds, too — especially around your waistline" according to the Editors of Prevention.
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The Flat Belly Diet maintains that consuming MUFAs. instead of other fats, an individual can lose weight without changing their total caloric intake.
Mahalo has resources on both MUFA and the Flat Belly Diet that can give you more information.
This video explains the chemistry of lipids:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xF_LK9pnL0
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Olive oil won't cause you to preferentially lose weight from any particular part of the body. In fact, nothing short of surgery can cause weight loss from a specific spot in the body. Neither food nor exercise can change where you accumulate fat, but your muscular condition can affect how that fat appears. http://www.exrx.net/WeightTraining/Myths.html
I'm not saying that they are. However, that is what MUFA refers to the flat belly diet according to the sources I listed.
MUFAs are "good fats" in contrast to saturated fats which are "bad fats".