Posted on 11/09/2013 12:24:30 PM PST by Innovative
No kidding!
We oughta have a ping list to trade recipes with each other made of stuff that the government doesn’t want us to make in our kitchens.
“Yeah, I’ll miss those. NOT!”
That is NOT the point — the point is that the government shouldn’t be forcing us to avoid certain foods by banning them. This is not the question of some “poison” this is about an ingredient that some think contributes to high cholesterol — maybe.
The evidence against transfats is much stronger than "some people think maybe".
From Atkins..."More than 10 years of published research shows trans fats adversely affect cholesterol levels in the human body, causing ("bad") LDL cholesterol to go up and ("good") HDL cholesterol to go down. The all-important HDL/LDL ratio is therefore twice as unfavorable when trans fats are consumed as when plain old saturated fat is eaten in its place. And while saturated fat is something the human body needs, nobody needs a fat that didn't even exist before it was invented. Moreover, studies now show that lipoprotein, a particularly bad factor when it comes to arterial health, is significantly increased by consumption of trans fats. Need more bad news? Trans fats push up triglyceride levels. "
imho, all of this has to do with the level of activity in today’s world. I am as guilty as anyone.
Back when I walked five miles a day...BOTH ways...to school everyday we ate 3 meals a day that were by today’s standards horribly unhealthy, lol.
I think I’ll go out and play a little dodge ball and Red Rover now. After I hoe a couple of rows of corn.
There are myriad websites devoted to copycat recipes for almost every processed or junk food on the market.
I think this is going to affect the SNAP folks more than anyone here.
“What if I WANT to use Crisco in my cookies?”
I stir fry all the time. I use lard. Yum!
I probably ingest about the same things as your uncle — plus Becel. (I still eat butter on popcorn, and some other things.) To each his own. Do you fry your elk in butter?
Put a cube of margarine outside in the sun. Look at it a week later. Nothing will eat it except us humans.
See #69
It was just a matter of time after the Great Salad Oil Scandal
had to happen
Grilled or roasted, never fried. The frying is for the potatoes and the eggs.
The former I do in lard, the latter in butter.
Remember the mantra “stay out of my bedroom”? Well stay the hell out of my kitchen. In fact big brother you are unwelcome in my house.
I ate transfats for decades and still don’t have any way of knowing if they harmed me or not. The human body has marvelous ways of compensating for otherwise troublesome factors, and it isn’t designed to last forever either.
There are low levels of trans fats even in nature. True, as you point out, most of the trans fat we get in modern foods comes from hydrogenation. There are alternative processes like interesterification. And it may prove possible to create better hydrogenation processes that produce less trans fat. The devil is in the details but as is our modern wont, someone just took it on themselves to officiously damn the whole thing.
No elk bacon?
That just doesn't work. The elk is a bovine, just like the cow. Ever heard of beef bacon?
Bacon requires pig.
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