trans fatty acids

Eat for the health of it.

Although the US Government said that trans fatty acids be listed on all food labels, it is not going to guarantee that the food you eat does not contain any trans fats, because if it is not at least 5% of the product, they do not have to list it. How rediculous is that? If it is in the product,any amount, it should be listed. Trans fats are artificially produced by partial hydrogenation.

In the 80's, when the big fuss was made about the natural lard, butter, and tallow. For those who do not know what tallow is, it is beef fat. They feared it was causing people to become fat and in turn was causing heart disease. They began to use vegetable oils like canola, soybean and corn. Vegetable oils are not stable when heated so they used the partial hydrogenation to make it more solid. This process also gave the oil shelf life.

Now haven't people been around for hundreds of years, chewing on some whale blubber and using lard to fry their foods in? These are all natural fats. I remember eating the cracklings that were formed from the chunks of fat that my parents fried and ran these fried chunks of lard through the press. This was all natural, no chemicals added. Why would they, all of a sudden, after hundreds of years, think that this all natural food was dangerous to people? My mother has eaten these all natural lards and butters etc. and she is 92 years old and she still eats the all natural foods. My dad worked around chemicals and he died in his early 70's from cancer.

If anything, they are making people sick from eating the chemical solvents and metal catalyst, such as nickle oxide, that they have added to the vegetable oil to refine it. Then it is subjected to hydrogen gas with high pressure and high temperature reactor. Then to top it off they add some bleaching agents and deodorizing agents. This process changes the oil's molecules so it bears no nutritional value related to healthy natural vegetable oil.

So now the trans fats are causing more heart problems then the beef and pork fats were. This is what they were trying to eliminate in the first place. It is very hard to stay away from these trans fats because they are in so many things. You just have to learn to read labels and don't buy things that are not 100% all natural.

It angers me when I pick up foods and read the labels and there are so many chemicals in these processed foods, and I really believe that these chemicals are causing the cancer and other forms of illnesses. I still use real lard, butter and anything that is the closest to being in it's original state.

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Laughter is healthy: The tiny cabin-who new?

The social worker from the big city in Massachusettes was sent out to the mountains of South Carolina. She was on her first tour of duty, when she came upon a very small cabin in the woods. She knocked on the door and asked,"Is your father in there?"
"Pa? He left just afore ma."
The social worker asked,"Is your mom there?"
"Nope, she left just afore I got here."
"Are you never together as a family?"
"Sure, but not in here." the kid answered. "This is the outhouse."