Posted on 11/09/2013 9:10:16 AM PST by Olog-hai
They are among our most personal daily decisions: what to eat or drink. Maybe what to inhale.
Now that the governmentºs banning trans fat, does that mean it’s revving up to take away our choice to consume all sorts of other unhealthy stuff? …
In the tug-of-war between public health and personal freedom, the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to ban trans fats barely rates a ripple.
Hardly anyone defends the icky-sounding artificial ingredient anymore, two decades after health activists began warning Americans that it was clogging their arteries and causing heart attacks. …
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Good for you-there is even a little family grain farm and mill about 100 miles from here that sells to a little mom-and-pop health store in the next town. Have you tried baking bread from stone-ground whole grain flour, or using brown rice that has not been tampered with? I read every label, and you are right-I return about 2/3 of them to the shelf because of the hidden preservatives, and go without if I can’t find one that is free of additives like that.
Sweets at home on the ranch were the occasional pie from fresh fruit, or cookies-made from scratch, like everything else, and the sweetener on the table for your oatmeal-no cold cereal-was honey from a neighbor who kept bees-I never developed a taste for sweets-and those high fructose sweeteners are sweeter even than processed sugar-yech.
Jeez-that is even worse than the 1960 one I remember from the school cafeteria. Milk, ice cream, fat, fat, sugar, bread, cereal, potatoes, starch, more starch = empty carbs and calories and not nearly enough protein or fresh produce-might as well eat the box or package the cereal and bread came in-no wonder people are overweight from childhood.
“But trans fats still exist in some products. Carefully read nutrition labels and chose brands that don’t use trans fats and are low in saturated fat in these products:
Cookies, crackers, cakes, muffins, pie crusts, pizza dough, and breads such as hamburger buns
Some stick margarine and vegetable shortening
Pre-mixed cake mixes, pancake mixes, and chocolate drink mixes
Fried foods, including donuts, French fries, chicken nuggets, and hard taco shells
Snack foods, including chips, candy, and packaged or microwave popcorn
Frozen dinners”
http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/understanding-trans-fats
If the govt really wants to prevent disease and protect health they wouldn’t promote homosexuality.
I know of no clinical study in the medical literature supporting the idea that a diet that includes trans-fats is more likely to cause you to have a heart attack. The FDA fails to meet their own standard of proof. Some diets like the Mediteranean have been shown to have some benefit in reducing heart attacks and that could mean that eating a diet with a greater proportion of unsaturated fats may be beneficial. If somone knows of good clinical information relating specifically to diets containing some trans-fats causing heart attacks, please post it.
All processed and convenience food-best not to buy/use processed food-more trouble to prepare it all yourself, but it is healthier and it tastes better, once you get the taste of the artificial/enhanced scrubbed from your taste receptors...
Not the FDA, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
In the early 1980s, the CSPI and other food nannies activists campaigned for McD, KFC, & BK, et al, to stop using saturated fats (beef tallow for deep fryers & lard for baking) and start using the healthy alternative: vegetable oil.
Now, the vegetable oil industry knew that vegetable oils goes rancid after a few months and makes baked goods taste stale and greasy; so manufacturers used a process known since the 1920s for shortenings and margarine called 'hydrogenation'.
Hydrogenation adds a hydrogen atom to the 'trans' side (as opposed to the normal 'cis' side) of the fat chain. Thus the term 'trans-fat'.
The Oiling of America
‘Hypocrisy’ on trans fat
Regulators to Take CSPI’s New Advice, Ignore CSPI’s Old Advice
Rise and fall of trans fat: A history of partially hydrogenated oil
Thanks for the explanation, wasn’t sure how we got in that hole. But it’s like eggs, first they said don’t eat them, they’re deadly but now they’re good for you.
Here’s a novel idea, why don’t these people just worry about what they’re eating and leave the rest of us alone. I think they did that once upon a time, what was it called?
Oh yeah, Democracy.
The Mediterranean diet is made of yummy natural stuff-like olive oil, fish, veggies. The idiots used to think the olive oil was “bad”, but now it is good-and the French put about 1/2 pound of butter in everything they cook, and wash it down with a half bottle of wine and they aren’t obese or dropping dead prematurely, either.
I think the issue is that the trans-fats are not all natural, but enhanced is the reason they are not healthy, but I don’t eat the stuff, so it is just my take.
Thanks for the refresher on hydrogenation-I’d forgotten how icky it was.
Obama can sign new federal tobacco laws, trans fats can suddenly be outlawed, but no interest from the libertarians, we all know what interests them.
The MSM always likes to pretend there is no debate on a subject, remember global warming is “settled science”.
Well, it was real food LOL
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