Learn Why Trans Fats Will Kill You If You Don't Stop Eating Them

People are under the assumption that eating fat is bad for you. There was a period of time when nutritional scientists did not know the difference in which types of fat were good for us and which ones were bad. They all made the assumption that all fat is bad and it is to be avoided. Because of this thinking, there was a surplus of low fat to no fat foods. Problem with these foods is that because fat made the product taste good, manufactures had to add sugar and high fructose corn syrup to the mix so that the food could taste good again.

Now, many scientists accept the notion that we need fat in our diet and that there are numerous types of fatty acids that do different things for the body. To put things simply, we need fat in our diet because it provides many healthy functions.

Some types of fatty acids have been shown to decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, inflammation, Alzheimer's, depression, and even cancer in some cases. However, there is one type of fat that every study shows will do us the most harm and the ironic thing is, this type of fat is manmade. It's called trans fatty acid.

Tran's fats are essentially unsaturated fat, which contains one or more double bonds between the carbon atoms. Because of food science and manufacturers wanting products to taste better and last longer, they hydrogenate these unsaturated fatty acids, thus breaking down the double bonds. This in turn, makes the fatty acid extremely unhealthy when ingested by the human body.

Trans fats provide no nutritional value and are not needed in our diet. They have been found to increase our risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, the killing of brain cells, increasing LDL cholesterol (bad cholesterol), decreasing HDL (good cholesterol), an increase in Alzheimer's, an increase in diabetes, and an increase in obesity.

Such foods that Trans fats can be found in are fried foods and baked goods. All you have to do is look on the back of a food label to see if the ingredients list anything containing the word hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated. If you see that, then the product contains trans fats, even if the label does not say so. This is because food manufacturers are allowed to add trans fats if there is only less than a gram per serving.

Do yourself a favor, read the back of the labels because more often than not, you are probably consuming some form of trans fats without even knowing it.

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