Dangerously bad advice on trans fats...
Today's post: Tuesday, 2-19-2008
Recently I read some dangerously bad advice on trans fats, or as I like to call them transfats.
First & foremost, here are the facts.:
Like heavy smoking, transfats, also listed on labels as partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, are deadly poison to the health of your heart & cardiovascular system.
They lower the protective HDL cholesterol in your blood & make the LDL you already have into the most dangerous small particle kind that is literally so small it fits into the chinks in your blood vessel walls. Both these factors help transfats increase the plaque on the surface of your arteries & act as heart attack fertilizer.
(Fully hydrogenated or “interesterified” fats are even worse. They do everything transfats do & ALSO help cause type II diabetes. They are like transfats on steroids as far as damaging your heart & blood vessels.)
Guess what? That puts these fats in a class with radioactive foods. How much is a safe amount to eat? Zero. These fats simply are too harmful to ingest – ever.
To be sure, if you are otherwise healthy & ingest them an average of once a month or so, you may well get away with it.
But eating them each week is clearly a serious health hazard to you.
And, they are still in most commercial baked goods & much of the snack foods in your grocery store. They have even been found in microwave popcorn, candy bars, bread, & ice cream !!
That means you must always read labels & simply boycott buying or eating these fats if you value your health & want to live a long & healthy life.
They are so bad for you doing this is in a class with quitting smoking in its importance to your future health.
So, given that, would advice that suggests simply eating a bit less of these fats might help, be good to follow??
Not really. And, it is definitely dangerous disinformation for someone to give such advice.
Sure, smoking one pack a day of cigarettes is not as bad for you as four; but even half a pack a day is so bad for your heart, no informed doctor today will say that it’s OK to continue smoking if you value your health & heart health.
So, it was with a great deal of shock that I read advice recently to count grams of transfats as being of equal risk with grams of saturated fat.
THAT is dangerously bad advice !!
Transfats are something like TEN times as bad for you. You cannot safely eat them regularly, period.
You not only can eat some saturated fat, it may boost your HDL more than your LDL if you don’t eat too much & eat it with fiber and antioxidant containing foods.
If you eat a diet that is 5 to 10 % saturated fat by calories; never overcook or use too high a temperature to cook food containing saturated fats; & you eat plentiful fruits & vegetables to carry some of the saturated fat away & prevent it from oxidizing, you can easily eat saturated fat with virtually no health penalty at all.
So, to count grams of transfat as of equal harm to saturated fat is like saying slightly spoiled pineapple is about as unsafe as hand grenades that have had their fuses pulled.
To quote a line from the early Arnold Schwarzenegger film Pumping Iron,
‘That is BAD advices.”
Don’t be fooled.
Hydrogenated vegetable oils are like heart attack starters. Don’t buy or eat them if you value your health.
Don’t believe people who say different. Their information is incomplete & dangerously wrong.
Today's post: Tuesday, 2-19-2008
Recently I read some dangerously bad advice on trans fats, or as I like to call them transfats.
First & foremost, here are the facts.:
Like heavy smoking, transfats, also listed on labels as partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, are deadly poison to the health of your heart & cardiovascular system.
They lower the protective HDL cholesterol in your blood & make the LDL you already have into the most dangerous small particle kind that is literally so small it fits into the chinks in your blood vessel walls. Both these factors help transfats increase the plaque on the surface of your arteries & act as heart attack fertilizer.
(Fully hydrogenated or “interesterified” fats are even worse. They do everything transfats do & ALSO help cause type II diabetes. They are like transfats on steroids as far as damaging your heart & blood vessels.)
Guess what? That puts these fats in a class with radioactive foods. How much is a safe amount to eat? Zero. These fats simply are too harmful to ingest – ever.
To be sure, if you are otherwise healthy & ingest them an average of once a month or so, you may well get away with it.
But eating them each week is clearly a serious health hazard to you.
And, they are still in most commercial baked goods & much of the snack foods in your grocery store. They have even been found in microwave popcorn, candy bars, bread, & ice cream !!
That means you must always read labels & simply boycott buying or eating these fats if you value your health & want to live a long & healthy life.
They are so bad for you doing this is in a class with quitting smoking in its importance to your future health.
So, given that, would advice that suggests simply eating a bit less of these fats might help, be good to follow??
Not really. And, it is definitely dangerous disinformation for someone to give such advice.
Sure, smoking one pack a day of cigarettes is not as bad for you as four; but even half a pack a day is so bad for your heart, no informed doctor today will say that it’s OK to continue smoking if you value your health & heart health.
So, it was with a great deal of shock that I read advice recently to count grams of transfats as being of equal risk with grams of saturated fat.
THAT is dangerously bad advice !!
Transfats are something like TEN times as bad for you. You cannot safely eat them regularly, period.
You not only can eat some saturated fat, it may boost your HDL more than your LDL if you don’t eat too much & eat it with fiber and antioxidant containing foods.
If you eat a diet that is 5 to 10 % saturated fat by calories; never overcook or use too high a temperature to cook food containing saturated fats; & you eat plentiful fruits & vegetables to carry some of the saturated fat away & prevent it from oxidizing, you can easily eat saturated fat with virtually no health penalty at all.
So, to count grams of transfat as of equal harm to saturated fat is like saying slightly spoiled pineapple is about as unsafe as hand grenades that have had their fuses pulled.
To quote a line from the early Arnold Schwarzenegger film Pumping Iron,
‘That is BAD advices.”
Don’t be fooled.
Hydrogenated vegetable oils are like heart attack starters. Don’t buy or eat them if you value your health.
Don’t believe people who say different. Their information is incomplete & dangerously wrong.
Labels: cardiovascular health, heart attack, heart health, partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, prevent heart disease, trans fats
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