Foods NOT to eat -- part 2 cont'd/new transfats info

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Today's post: Wednesday, 7-5-2006

Foods NOT to eat -- part 2 continued/new information on transfats….

(The foods to virtually never eat & why.)

Transfats, also known as partially hydrogenated vegetable oils.

Yesterday’s post had how they trigger heart disease in people who eat them regularly & some new information on how to avoid foods that have transfats in them.

Today’s news is exciting.

If you are eating lots of transfats now (& most Americans still do as of this writing),

>>> you may well be able to lose over 5 % of your bodyweight as excess fat without eating much differently –
by eliminating transfats & eating healthy oils like extra virgin olive oil instead. <<<<<

From Jon Benson in FitOver40 newsletter recently.:

“Daniel DeNoon from WebMD Medical News wrote a brief review on a Wake Forest University study dealing with trans fats, or partially-hydrogenated fractal oils that have been linked directly to heart disease due to their mutated biological structure.

From the WebMD article:

In the study, researchers fed 51 male vervet monkeys a western-style diet -- that is, 35% of their diet was fat. Half the monkeys got a lot of trans fat, totaling 8% of their diet. The other monkeys were fed unsaturated fats such as olive oil. Both types of diets were calorie-controlled. In theory, the monkeys should not have gained weight.

But they did.

Over six years, what would, in humans, be a 20-year span, the monkeys who ate unsaturated fats upped their body weight by 1.8%.

Those fed trans fats packed on 7.2%. In humans, that would be enough weight gain to significantly increase risk of diabetes and heart disease.”

So, eating transfats, also known as partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, very likely makes you considerably fatter than you otherwise would be.

And, 8 percent of calories as transfats is very close to what Americans who are uninformed about health & nutrition now eat.

So to my advice yesterday, consider adding healthful oils like extra virgin olive oil, nuts, avocados & fish like wild caught salmon to replace the fat you now eat as transfats.

My advice on snack foods yesterday was:

…. to substitute Superfood whole fruit or nuts or dark chocolate for 90 percent of the snack or treat foods you may have been eating that contain partially hydrogenated vegetable oils & with the remaining ten percent, choose only the new transfat & partially hydrogenated vegetable oil free versions.

That will give you snacks & treats without the heart & other diseases than come with eating partially hydrogenated vegetable oils.