At the time Umbach was in Afghanistan, about a decade since US-backed forces captured Mazar-e-Sharif, most people's lives had regained some sense of normalcy. Men were back to their jobs as farmers or factory workers, and girls could go to school.
Dietary fats and oils. Dietary fats and oils are the most concentrated form of energy as they yield 9 calories/g, whereas, carbohydrates and proteins yield only 4 calories/gm. Nuts and oil seeds are good sources of fat. Beside rich in energy, dietary fats are incredible sources of essential fatty acids, vitamin E in addition to act as the transport vehicle for fat-soluble vitamins/hormones. There are two types of dietary fats, visible and non-visible fat.
expressed oil (fatty oil) (fixed oil) one that is not volatile, i.e., does not evaporate on warming; such oils consist of a mixture of fatty acids and their esters, and are classified as solid, semisolid, and liquid, or as drying, semidrying, and nondrying as a function of their tendency to solidify on exposure to air.