TRANS FAT, Hydrogenated oil, Partially Hydrogenated Oil, By Any Name, the Shame's the Same

ABOUT TRANS FATS

In case you have not yet heard about them, here is the scoop: They are created by super-heating liquid vegetable fats and adding in hydrogen molecules. The result is a Franken-fat that is now saturated enough to stay solid at room temperatures, just like butter. Add a little fake butter flavoring and salt and you have margarine. Back during the cold war the USA gave this to the Russians as a gift. The Russians did the safest thing with it, they polished their boots with it.
When we eat it our bodies try to make cell walls with the stuff. The resulting cells are like little houses made with straw instead of brick, they are defective and weak. The wolves of disease can easily blow them down and worst of all, they make us look OLD. Screw that! We look old fast enough without adding in fats that give Twinkies a twenty year shelf life but rob us of any shelf life we might have had.

I know hydrogenated fats are convenient and make money for the big time food conglomerates, supermarkets, and chain restaurants, but count me out. Their profit strategies are apposed to our health, beauty, and longevity. You might even call it a war. After all, this stuff kills far more people than all the wars fought in the last hundred years. Cancer and heart disease have touched all of us, either directly or through our families and friends. I just wonder if we can go after them as we did the cigarette companies. With trans fats banned in many countries and some US states, it's not as if they don't know what these fats do to us.

My message to them is: Get the bad fats out of the food or the mother of all class action suits it on it's way to you. Hostess Twinkies still have hydrogenated fats in them! They know people feed them to children. They know how damaging they are. They just don't care. Save yourself. Read labels. If the ingredients include "partially hydrogenated" or "hydrogenated" fats, you are looking at trans fats and trans fats are poison, slow but deadly. Remember, one serving takes your body three months to dump and we don't know how much longer the damage it caused lasts.