Why Hydrogenated Oils Are Bad For You

By: Rudy Silva

Warning: Do not eat foods that contain partially hydrogenated
and hydrogenated fats. These fats are found in all kinds of
packaged and junk food. Food manufacturers really don't care
about your health when they add hydrogenated oils to their foods.

Good clean vegetable oils are hydrogenated to create shortenings
and margarines. Vegetable oils are partially hydrogenated so
they can be added to many foods since they become a source of
cheap fat and increase the shelf life of the food product.

What do hydrogenated oils do? When healthy oils are processed
through bubbling hydrogen at temperatures up to 210 C,
un-natural fatty acids are created that are called trans-fatty
acids.

Your body is unable to use this un-natural fatty acids so the
liver see them as toxic waste and proceeds to detoxify and
eliminate them. Trans-fatty acids are one of the most toxic
wastes that can be inside your body. Trans fatty acids, also,
can block your body's use of the essential fatty acids.

Hydrogenated oils also have all of their nutrients removed
during their processing. This forces removal of vitamins and
minerals from your body to help digest the stripped hydrogenated
oil.

In his book called, Eat Fat Look Thin - A Safe and Natural Way
to Lose Weight Permanently, 2002, Bruce Fife, N.D., talks about
the dangers of hydrogenated oils,

"Trans fatty acids affect more than just our cardiovascular
health. According to a study reported by Mary Enig, Ph.D., when
monkeys were fed trans fatcontaining margarine in their
diets,...their red blood cells did not bind insulin as well as
when they were not fed trans. This suggests a link with
diabetes. Trans fatty acids have been linked with a variety of
adverse health effects which include: cancer, ischemic heart
disease, multiple sclerosis diverticulitis, diabetes, and other
degenerative conditions."

Hydrogenated oils are use by a food processor because they are
cheap fats, which increase the size and shelf life of their
product.

This is where you find hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated
oils,

* 40% of all foods in a grocery store

* 95% of all cookies

* 75% of chips and crackers

* 70% of all cold cereals and cake mixes

* 80% of all frozen breakfast foods

* in most microwave popcorn

* in many salted peanuts and other nuts

* in most candies

* most restaurants that fry foods including donut shops
shortenings

* and the list goes on and on

Buy less of these foods and give yourself better health and
force the food manufacturers to use less hydrogenated oils in
their food products.

About the author:
Rudy Silva has a degree in Physics and is a Natural
Nutritionist. He is the author of Constipation, Acne,
Hemorrhoid, and Fatty Acid ebooks. He also writes a newsletter
called "natural-remedies-thatwork.com." For more information on
the essential fatty acids go to:
http://www.fatty-acid-remedies.for--you.info