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Nutrition is one of the most important basics to ensure athlete’s susceptibility and readiness to perform a physical effort, activity and production through which he can achieve good results to reach the hoped goals. In addition, the health status of the athlete is affected by food type and nature, so this requires concern with all details of food. It is known that nutrition with fats is one of the most important methods of providing players with energy especially in games which require physical effort and relatively longtime periods in this effort (aerobic games). Fats are used by the body in energy production through the aerobic physical effort, so the researcher made this study to identify the effect of having foods containing saturated and unsaturated fats on endurance level through identification of the maximum susceptibility of oxygen consumption. The researcher selected a set of players divided into two empirical groups. A pre-test was made for both groups. Next, for a period of two weeks the first groups had foods containing great amounts of saturated fats in the form of animal fats, dairy derivations and others. The second group had foods containing great amounts of unsaturated fats in the form of foods containing vegetable oils, nuts and others for the same period of the first group. After that, post-tests were made for both groups. After statistical treatments of testing results, results referred that the first group that used saturated fats showed an ability to perform physical effort and endurance possibility more than the second group which depended on unsaturated fats in nutrition. From these results, the researcher concluded that athletes who depend on foods containing saturated fats have more susceptibility to consume oxygen than athletes who depend on foods containing unsaturated fats. Accordingly, this is an indication to the player’s ability to endure stamina during playing. The researcher also recommended that it is necessary for athletes to have nutrition according to the type of practiced activity and depend on foods containing saturated fats, especially when it comes to those who practice games characterized by long activity practicing periods.