The FDA is phasing out artificial trans fats from the food supply, but people should limit their intake of saturated fats, too, which can also cause heart disease. There are three main types of fat: unsaturated, saturated and trans fats.
UNSATURATED FAT: These are the good fats, and doctors say they should be the majority of fat that people eat. For cooking, they usually come in the form of liquid oils, not solid fats. Unsaturated fats are listed on food packages as polyunsaturated fats and monounsaturated fats. Polyunsaturated include soybean oil, corn oil and some fish; monounsaturated fats include olive oil, avocado and many nuts.
SATURATED FAT: These fats are often derived from animals and generally take a more solid form. They raise "bad" cholesterol and can contribute to heart disease. Common sources include high-fat cheeses, high-fat cuts of meat, whole-fat milk and cream, butter, ice cream and palm and coconut oils. The government recommends that saturated fats make up less than 10 percent of daily calories.
TRANS FAT: These are the worst fats, and the FDA is forcing food companies to phase them out. They are made when hydrogen is added to vegetable oil, usually to create a certain consistency or increase shelf life, and they are also called partially hydrogenated oils. Many of them have already been phased out, but foods that are more likely to contain trans fats are fried items, microwave popcorn, frozen pizza, cakes, cookies, pie crusts, stick margarine, ready-to-use frosting and coffee creamers. There are also some naturally occurring trans fats from meat and dairy sources, but the artificial types make up most of what is in the food supply.
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
"Trans fats, saturated fats and unsaturated fats"
"Some fats are worse than others"
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I thought we were now all okay with trans anything.
Many vegetable oils are unsaturated fats. They are in fact cis fats. They are isomerized to trans fats by catalysts just as cis people are isomerized to trans people by catalysts like the media and social mavens.
I am amused by the whole cis/trans nomenclature thing (cis, trans, gem) because it parallels the nomenclature for substituted alkenes in organic chemistry. I'm waiting for someone to state/claim that they are a gem-person.
I mentioned the cis/trans alkene thing here at Lem's: "Exceeding Nature."
I'm so glad our government cares about us. Sure, they will waste our money and we get to sit here and watch Hillary be licked up and down by a fawning press even though she should be indicted and imprisoned as others have been for much less.
But hey- transfats!
Just to be clear (because Lems' post is unclear): both cis and trans fats are unsaturated fats. But you never hear about cis fats which are the normal unsaturated vegetable fats. Why is that? It's because just like normal, "cis people," they are demonized and never talked about.
Can we still drink beer?
So if a skinny person identifies as a fat person are they transfat?
"saturated fats, too, which can also cause heart disease."
No, no they can't. Sadly this lie will be perpetuated as long as cholesterol lowering drugs bring in billions (120+ in the last 15 years) and the doctors who grew up learning it it die off. It is blind faith now, despite all the evidence in their faces.
After having thyroid cancer... I will never believe anything those idiots tell me on cholesterol. The docs sure didn't mention your thyroid affects cholesterol levels, just "well we may need to use medication if diet doesnt work".
AllenS: Make sure it's polyunsaturated beer. No wait, I've got that wrong. You want a monounsaturated beer, and saturated beer is okay too as long as you don't drink too much of it.
AllenS: Drink the beer, skip the pickled eggs.
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