But the homosexual lifestyle is high-risk and encouraged!
At the top of this post is a link to a nutrition article on 13 myths about food. It delves into a host of things we have been told are bad for our health when, in fact, they are actually beneficial. Eggs as a source of protein are good for you. It also takes on the myth of increasing use of vegetable oils - turns out they are detrimental to your health. Check it out!
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Ok, I give. What could possibly be BETTER when made with MARGARINE?
Yuk.
I’ve never used margarine. It’s gross.
Trans fats are what the whole “saturated fats are bad for you” myth was constructed to sell.
Trans fats are cheap, and they’re shelf-stable. They are also by an order of magnitude worse for you than anything else you could put in your diet.
Our cell membranes are made up of fats. In a healthy cell, mostly saturated with just enough saturated fats to create flexibility.
Saturated fats are fully hydrogenated, which makes them chemically stable, and unlikely to oxidize. Unsaturated fats have one or more double-carbon bonds, which makes them less stable and more likely to oxidize. (IOW, go rancid).
The other thing is that saturated fats have a linear structure, so they pack together closely. Natural unsaturated fats have one or more kinks in them, so they don’t pack tightly. That’s why saturated fats are solid at room temperature, monounsaturated fats are liquid at room temperature but solidify in the refrigerator, and polyunsaturated fats are liquid in the refrigerator.
What trans fats are is an unsaturated fat that has been chemically processed to straighten the kink. This makes them look structurally like a saturated fat, but chemically they are still unsaturated fats. The result is a fat that will take the place of a saturated fat in the cell membrane, but which will not react chemically the way it should once it’s there.
Manufacturers love them because you can make them from waste products. (The first commercially available trans-fat - Crisco - was made from hydrogenated cotton seed oil). And because you can sit it on a warehouse shelf for years, without it going bad. Though “going bad” may not be the proper phrase. It implies that something edible has become inedible, and trans fats were never actually edible in the first place.
Trans fats aren’t food. They don’t exist in any natural food source. And they should never have been allowed in the diet in the first place.
The maximal healthy allowance of trans fats in the human diet is zero. (And unfortunately, there are still a lot of trans fats in the diet. Current FDA rules allow manufactures to mark a product as having zero grams of trans fats if there are less than 0.5 grams per serving. So all they need do is drop the serving size small enough, and they can claim to have no trans fats.
Rush is right, that without trans fats processed industrial crap will be more expensive. The saturated fats that will replace them will cost more and have a shorter shelf life. But, and it’s a huge but, they will taste better, have a better texture, and will have a significantly reduced toxic load.