WHAT ARE TRANS FATS AND WHY ARE THEY SO BAD?
Look on the labels of most bottled oils, salad dressings, margarine, and factory baked products such as bread and cereal for the FAT ingredient listing.
What you will usually see are vegetable oils from corn or canola or soy, or “hydrogenated or partially-hydrogenated oil”, or “trans fat”.
If you see any of these, PUT IT BACK ON THE SHELF!
Unfortunately, if you are in a restaurant you won’t get to read a package, but if they are cooking with vegetable oils such as margarine, corn oil or canola oil instead of butter and olive oil (and most of them are), you ARE eating hydrogenated fat and vegetable oils. (Also known as trans fats).
The worst offender, quality-wise, would be eating deep-fried food, which is cooked in vats of old oil, kept at boiling point, and used over and over again. YUK!
Why avoid these hydrogenated (trans) fats or oils?
Partially hydrogenated oils do not exist in nature, and they are highly processed. We only ate these fats beginning very recently in our history, and our bodies cannot process them.
In our natural diet, fats exist in a combination of saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats found in animals, eggs, nuts, seeds, olives, avocados, etc.
Our human bodies are MADE to eat saturated fats, along with unprocessed nuts/seeds, olives and avocados. We were NEVER meant to eat corn oil, or soy oil, or canola oil, especially when it is genetically modified and highly chemically processed to make it hydrogenated.
Hydrogenated vegetable oils cause inflammation in our arteries, joints and organs. They gum up our livers. They are THE bad guys of the fat world. It would be ideal to never eat one bit of hydrogenated or vegetable oil again. Not what you’ve been told, is it?
Stick with naturally occurring fats such as organic butter and olive oil, coconut oil, and ghee. If you are smart enough to be buying your meats from a rancher, by internet, or from the farmer’s market, the fats from pasture-fed meats are also good for you, including their CLA, a type of fat known to burn off “bad” fats in the body and help convert fat to lean muscle. So, go ahead, enjoy the good stuff! It really IS the GOOD stuff.
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(Source: realfoodology)
