Let's see...first we went on a tour of a historic mansion. This was in the parking lot:
Then it was to the mall! Times have changed. Pretend I'm saying this in a creaky old lady voice: Now back when I was a kid, there was no Coach store at the mall. We had to buy our handbags at Sears!
The morning after the wedding we went for a jog around the lake in town. In the rain. In 30-degree weather.
To wrap up the nostalgia tour, we went and hiked through some caves that I hadn't been to since I was 8 years old. In the rain. In 30-degree weather.
Hence the Best Sport Ever award.
He didn't exactly suffer the whole weekend though. The wedding was fun, and between rainy events, we went out for burgers.
The daily recommended maximum intake of fat is about 60 grams (for an adult male) and 300 mg cholesterol.
Practical translation? You'd think that eating cholesterol makes your blood cholesterol increase. Yeah, it does a bit. But actually saturated fat has a huge influence on your blood cholesterol. LDL, "bad cholesterol" is the one that clogs up your arteries and puts you at risk for heart disease. HDL, "good cholesterol" acts as a scooper to pick up the LDL and bring it back to the liver. Saturated fat will increase the bad cholesterol. Trans fats both increase bad cholesterol and lower good cholesterol- that's why you've seen the health push to limit trans fats.
Not the end of the world to have something like this on a rare occasion. Just keep in mind that it'd take 8 laps around the lake, 10-1/2 cave hikes, or 25 mansion tours to burn it off.
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