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Most of the trans fats in the American diet are found in foods such as french fries, onion rings, shortening, margarine, doughnuts, partially hydrogenated oils, dressings, puffed cheese snacks, potato chips, tortilla chips, burgers, chicken nuggets, ice cream, candy, cookies, and cakes. Unlike saturated fats, trans fats do not produce any good HDL cholesterol, and they raise bad LDL.
KC Craichy
Author
The Super Health Diet
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Ugly Fats—Trans Fats exist in nature and are also produced by heating liquid vegetable oils in the presence of hydrogen, in a process known as hydrogenation. This process increases the oils’ firmness and resistance to oxidative spoilage. These are fats the body cannot easily break down and often lead to blocked arteries and heart disease. Trans fatty acids damage the body because they displace, and thus supplant, the natural cis fatty acids (natural fats and oils contain only cis double bonds–e.g., oleic acid, a monounsaturated fatty acid with a cis configuration) from the body’s various cell membranes, with the tragic result that their essential functionality is profoundly damaged due to the not-found-in-nature “trans”-configuration of cis fatty acid called trans fats. This damaged functionality displays itself in the form of a vastly altered permeability of the cellular membrane itself, which in turn results in unwanted molecules making their way inside our cells, while the “right” molecules for optimal health are not absorbed properly. One of the physiological consequences of this is severe and unrelenting inflammation, which leads to all sorts of degenerative diseases within the body.
KC Craichy
Author
The Super Health Diet