However, when it comes to eating, some people just cannot resist the flavours and taste of fats. Fats smoothen the food that we eat. It adds flavours. We can find fats in meats, fish and dairy products. Too much carbohydrates or sugar in the body will be converted into fats as well. So even if you don’t eat fatty food at all, when you consume too much calorie, or when you eat more than your body can expend, you can extra fats (all these come from the extra carbohydrates or sugars that you eat which is converted into fats), deposited at different parts of the body.

When fats is absent, certain food don’t taste the same as before. These food don’t taste as nice and delicious as it was before. Take for example the case of Singapore Fried Kway Tiao, the usual traditional way of it was to fried it with lard, but nowadays as people are more health conscious, lard are not being used any more. Nowadays the oily wet Fried Kway Tiao is extinct from Singapore already. Hardly can we find the old time Fried Kway Tiao already. Nowadays the Fried Kway Tiao are more ‘dry’ and not ’smooth’ as before because they don’t put as much oil and the flavour is different as well (hardly use lard). Different fish have different amount of fats in them. These amounts of fats which they contains make them unique and different from their ‘relatives’. Some fish taste very nice just because of the fatty contents which they possess.

Fats are not only important in food by adding flavour to the food, it is also important in our body. When a women had lost too much fats in the body, the menstrual cycle is disrupted. Some women who lost too much weight experience amenorrhea (absence of menstruation). For the body to work well, it must have a balance in everything.

Beauty is just too important in this world. A lot of time, people are judge based on first impression. Whether you are going for job interviews or going for audition, the good-looking individuals will always tend to stand a better chance. Even if you have a heart of gold, it takes time and opportunities for people to realise and discover that. But having a nice body and a beautiful face will make the heads turn. People like beautiful things. That is human nature. Humans also want to enjoy life. They want to eat good food, they like to eat. But men and women want to enjoy their delicious food but yet do not want to get fat.

Sometimes when people feel stressful, they eat a lot. They eat to forget their stress. Still others eat and vomit their food later on. They always feel that they are fat, which they are not. They feel guilty as soon as they begin to eat their food. However, they are hungry. So they eat and vomit later. All these are eating disorders which mostly happens in women.

When people experience weight gain due to more fats deposited around their body, they begin to take steps to reduce them. Some take slimming pills, some engaged in more exercises, some spent huge amount of money going to slimming centres. When they have maintained the weight desired, they forget all about maintaining their weight again. Attending dinner, functions, celebrations etc, they cannot resist the temptation of good food, they eat too much again. At times, they eat to forget their problems. Then the weight gain come back again! Then they go dieting and slimming again. The rituals will go on and off.

Because people are so obsess with beauty, and people are willing to spend money for their looks, this open revenues to commercial people who sell various slimming products and even more and more slimming centers, spas and beauty centres in the markets.