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Trans fats, or Trans Fatty Acids, are a vegetable-based fat that is made when vegetable oils are hardened for use in shortening or margarine. Trans fats are found in baked and fried foods, such as cookies, fried fish or chicken and donuts, which are prepared using the hardened vegetable oil.
Will eating foods that contain trans-fats affect my goals to build muscle mass and gain healthy weight? Many skinny individuals feel that they have to eat a ton of "everything" in order to gain muscle weight.
Everybody wants to blame "carbs" or "sugar" for all the overweight problems and health issues people are facing today. But the truth is that a moderate amount of carbs aren't the problem, nor is regular fat, to a certain extent. Trans fats are the real enemy!
Trans fats are unhealthy. But their replacement may be worse. Are we jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire?
Yummy foods are loved by people of all ages who are probably aware that these foods may pose some threats to their health. Here are 9 so called 'junk foods' that are high in calories but low in nutritional content; they do contain fats, especially trans fats.
As consumers we had no idea how much trans fatty acids (trans-fat) were in the food we eat. Until now, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), after much red tape, is requiring that trans-fats be on all packaged food labels.
"Don't take too much fats!" This is a piece of advice we used to get from people around us. Are all fats bad for us? Of course no! Nevertheless, before we can decide which fats we should take and which fats we should not take, it is better to understand the nature of fats and where they can be found in the foods we consumed.
Trans fats not only raise total cholesterol levels, they also deplete good cholesterol (high-density lipoprotein or HDL) which helps protect against heart disease. Due to hydrogenation, trans fats are stiffer and harder than other fats as they are made more solid. The stiffer and harder fats are, the more they clog up your arteries.
Should we regulate the amount of trans fats contained in the food we eat? A Canadian government task force on trans fats is recommending that all vegetable oils and spreadable margarines have the trans fat content limited to 2 per cent of the total fat content and all other foods be limited to a maximum of 5 per cent of total fat content. These new regulations would decrease the average trans fat intake by at least 55 per cent.
For years we heard that a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet would keep us healthy and help us lose weight.
And many of us jumped on the bandwagon, eliminating fat and high-cholesterol foods from our diets. Well, unfortunately, we were doing it all wrong.
In 1950s and 1960s, trans fat was hailed as a healthy replacement for saturated fat in butter and animal fat. It was also used because of its ability to extend shelf life for products. 30 years later, why it is now crowned as a bad stuff that could shorten life for those who eat it?
Trans fat is now blamed as bad stuff that increases LDL (bad cholesterol) and simultaneously reduces HDL (good cholesterol). Foods with trans fat are everywhere. Besides candy, noodles, cookies, chips, there are hundreds of processed supermarket products contain it in different amounts.
I'm going to talk about something today that most of you have probably never heard...that there is a distinction between healthy trans fats and unhealthy trans fats. There is some evidence that the good trans fats can help you with fat loss, muscle building, and even cancer prevention, while the bad trans fats have been shown to cause heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and the general blubbering of your body.
Essential oils, Omega fats, fatty acids, trans fats, there is a lot of fat out there, some good some bad. We hope we can help you sort them out, as a broad term the only good fats come from the non animal world. Simply put the only fats and oils really worth eating are from fish, nuts, seeds and vegetables. Most cooking oils also are badly damaged by heat, turning nutritionally useless as you cook with them.
Over the years, people tend to associate high blood cholesterol to be a cause of heart disease. However, most people do not know the following fact. Total blood cholesterol, which includes both HDL (good) and LDL (bad) cholesterol, is a very inaccurate indicator of heart disease risk.
This article presents the very latest information on Fats and carbohydrates. If you have a particular interest in understating fats, carbohydrates and their role in, then this informative article is required reading.
Dr. Silva enlightens readers about the dangers of trans fats and ways to avoid these dangerous fats in the daily diet.
Avoiding all fats is a serious mistake. Getting the optimal amount of good fats a day (15-20 per cent of total calories) will actual enhance the metabolic reactions and result in more fat burn off.
If high cholesterol is so bad for us then why are low-fat, low cholesterol diets so difficult to stick to? The simple fact of the matter is that our body needs fat, and especially cholesterol, to function properly. So why the constant pushing of this or that natural remedy for high cholesterol?
What do these products; Dunkin donuts, Mrs. Smith's apple pie (frozen), Nabisco Chips Ahoy, Kellogg's Low Fat Granola (without raisins)Pillsbury Buttermilk Waffles (frozen), Jell-O Pudding Snacks Chocolate Flavor, Frito-Lay Tostitos Restaurant Style Tortilla Chips* have in common aside from being such all time American favorite goodies? All of them are guilty of having trans fat, as tested by the Consumers Union of the USA, an independent non-profit organization whose mission...
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