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Trans-Fat Endangers Your Health
As we look
for ways to becoming healthier as a society, with health experts sharing
insights and information with the public, even more hazards to our
health are exposed. When they come to light it is often shocking to
learn that these health hazards have been known about for months, even
years before information about them was ever released to the public.
Hopefully public outcry over lapses between when health hazards are
discovered and the information presented publicly, will cause some much
needed changes in the reporting of health hazards. Trans fat has made it
to the front of the pack of health hazards being reported on most
recently, because of the decision of a popular fast food chain to stop
using trans-fats in the preparation of their foods. Trans-fat endangers
the health of more people than cigarettes (which are skilled killers in
their own right) because trans-fats are in many of the foods we eat.
Trans-fat
is often referred to as trans- fatty acid. On food labels trans-fats are
often listed by yet another name, hydrogenated oil. This is a particular
kind of fat that forms when liquid fats such as oils are turned into
solid fats like shortening, and certain brands of margarine. Foods that
are made from animals also contain trans-fat, but in miniscule amounts.
What foods are you most likely to find trans fats? As already mentioned
some brands of margarine contain trans-fat and solid oil such as
shortening certainly does. Cookies, crackers, snacks and foods
containing hydrogenated oils are others trans-fat carriers. Foods that
are fried in partially hydrogenated oils such as those in fast food
restaurants also contain large amounts of trans-fat.
Trans-fat
endangers a person's health by raising the amount of unhealthy
cholesterol in the body to dangerous levels. Trans-fat also hinders the
production of good cholesterol by the body. High levels of unhealthy
cholesterol in the body severely impacts one's health. Trans-fat acts as
a clogging agent in arteries preventing blood from being able to
properly flow through the arteries to other parts of the body. This
deprives the body of the blood it needs to keep working properly. Heart
disease, strokes, cardiac arrhythmia and even death can all happen
because of the clogging of the arteries. Unhealthy cholesterol raises
the effects of trans-fatty acids in the body.
Choose
foods that do not contain the trans-fats that can endanger your health.
Get into an exercise program to reverse the effects that have already
occurred to your health by years of consuming these trans-fats. Teach
children as early as possible how to make good food choices so that
trans-fats will not endanger their health. Eliminating trans-fat from
your diet will improve your overall health as well as the length of your
life. Get off the fast track to an early death by eliminating trans-fat
from your diet. Read food labels carefully before buying and skip those
containing trans-fats. Before long, making better food choices for your
health will be a habit that you do not even have to think about, it will
just come automatically to you.
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