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    Healthconsciuos
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    #1

    Does any one know what the big deal is of Trans Fatty
    Acids? I have heard so many negative things said about
    trans fatty acids. What foods contain trans fatty acids? I
    have heard some say that eating margarine is now unhealthy
    and eating butter is better for you. It wasn't that many
    years ago that butter was the unhealthy food choice and
    margarine was the better health choice. Anyone have any
    wisdom on trans fatty acids?

    Report
  2. Chad C.
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    #2

    Here's the 10 second response: they increase the bad
    cholesterol, LDL, and kill off the good cholesterol, HDL.
    Amongst other things.

    -Chad

    "healthconsciuos" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    Does any one know what the big deal is of Trans Fatty
    Acids? I have heard so many negative things said about
    trans fatty acids. What foods contain trans fatty acids? I
    have heard some say that eating margarine is now unhealthy
    and eating butter is better for you. It wasn't that many
    years ago that butter was the unhealthy food choice and
    margarine was the better health choice. Anyone have any
    wisdom on trans fatty acids?

    Report
  3. Mattlb
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    Chad C. said:

    "healthconsciuos" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    Does any one know what the big deal is of Trans Fatty
    Acids? I have heard so many negative things said about
    trans fatty acids. What foods contain trans fatty acids?
    I have heard some say that eating margarine is now
    unhealthy and eating butter is better for you. It wasn't
    that many years ago that butter was the unhealthy food
    choice and margarine was the better health choice.
    Anyone have any wisdom on trans fatty acids?

    Quoted message said:

    Here's the 10 second response: they increase the bad
    cholesterol, LDL, and kill off the good cholesterol,
    HDL. Amongst other things.

    Another quick answer is your body can't burn them like it
    can normal fat. The trans double bond is a block, so trans
    fats tend to hang around. The main way they're got rid of
    is when they are attacked by free radicals, but this sort
    of attack is what ends up making LDL into oxLDL, which is
    what causes such a problem in arteries.

    MattLB

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  4. Ray K.
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    Chad C. said:

    Here's the 10 second response: they increase the bad
    cholesterol, LDL, and kill off the good cholesterol,
    HDL. Amongst other things.

    -Chad

    If a properly working digestive system breaks all eaten fats
    in their basic building blocks (fatty acids and
    glycerol)before absorption, then what's the difference if
    the original fat is saturated, monounsaturated,
    polyunsaturated, trans, hydrogenated, etc.?

    Here's an alternative viewpoint:

    westonaprice.orgoiling.html

    Ray

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    "healthconsciuos" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    Does any one know what the big deal is of Trans Fatty
    Acids? I have heard so many negative things said about
    trans fatty acids. What foods contain trans fatty acids? I
    have heard some say that eating margarine is now unhealthy
    and eating butter is better for you. It wasn't that many
    years ago that butter was the unhealthy food choice and
    margarine was the better health choice. Anyone have any
    wisdom on trans fatty acids?


    Report
  5. Chad C.
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    I just ordered her (Mary Enig's) book off Amazon. Hopefully the pretty
    pictures convince my parents to change their eating habits. 🙂

    -Chad

    "Ray K." <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:
    Chad C. said:

    Here's the 10 second response: they increase the bad
    cholesterol,


    LDL,

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    and kill off the good cholesterol, HDL. Amongst other
    things.

    -Chad

    If a properly working digestive system breaks all eaten
    fats in their basic building blocks (fatty acids and
    glycerol)before absorption, then what's the difference if
    the original fat is saturated, monounsaturated,
    polyunsaturated, trans, hydrogenated, etc.?

    Here's an alternative viewpoint:

    westonaprice.orgoiling.html

    Ray

    Quoted message said:


    "healthconsciuos" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    Does any one know what the big deal is of Trans Fatty
    Acids? I have heard so many negative things said about
    trans fatty acids. What foods contain trans fatty acids?
    I have heard some say that eating margarine is now
    unhealthy and eating butter is better for you. It wasn't
    that many years ago that butter was the unhealthy food
    choice and margarine was the better health choice.
    Anyone have any wisdom on trans fatty acids?

    Report
  6. Chad C.
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    #6

    Hi Ray,

    Mary Enig holds trans fats in dim regard as well. Her
    alternative viewpoint villifies them, and has for some
    decades apparently, way before the establishment ever did! I
    hold her in pretty high esteem.

    -Chad

    "Ray K." <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:
    Chad C. said:

    Here's the 10 second response: they increase the bad
    cholesterol,


    LDL,

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    and kill off the good cholesterol, HDL. Amongst other
    things.

    -Chad

    If a properly working digestive system breaks all eaten
    fats in their basic building blocks (fatty acids and
    glycerol)before absorption, then what's the difference if
    the original fat is saturated, monounsaturated,
    polyunsaturated, trans, hydrogenated, etc.?

    Here's an alternative viewpoint:

    westonaprice.orgoiling.html

    Ray

    Quoted message said:


    "healthconsciuos" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    Does any one know what the big deal is of Trans Fatty
    Acids? I have heard so many negative things said about
    trans fatty acids. What foods contain trans fatty acids?
    I have heard some say that eating margarine is now
    unhealthy and eating butter is better for you. It wasn't
    that many years ago that butter was the unhealthy food
    choice and margarine was the better health choice.
    Anyone have any wisdom on trans fatty acids?

    Report
  7. Ray K.
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    #7

    Hi Chad,

    Yes, almost everyone, especially in the alternative medicine
    field, warns against them. I'm just trying to understand
    /why/, in view of the way the digestive system "disassembes"
    fats, and carbs and proteins, into their basic building
    blocks before absorption. Maybe my understanding of
    digestion is faulty.

    Ray

    Chad C. said:

    Hi Ray,

    Mary Enig holds trans fats in dim regard as well. Her
    alternative viewpoint villifies them, and has for some
    decades apparently, way before the establishment ever did!
    I hold her in pretty high esteem.

    -Chad

    "Ray K." <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:
    Chad C. said:

    Here's the 10 second response: they increase the bad
    cholesterol,

    LDL,

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    and kill off the good cholesterol, HDL. Amongst other
    things.

    -Chad

    If a properly working digestive system breaks all eaten
    fats in their basic building blocks (fatty acids and
    glycerol)before absorption, then what's the difference if
    the original fat is saturated, monounsaturated,
    polyunsaturated, trans, hydrogenated, etc.?

    Here's an alternative viewpoint:

    westonaprice.orgoiling.html

    Ray

    Quoted message said:

    "healthconsciuos" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    >Does any one know what the big deal is of Trans Fatty
    >Acids? I have heard so many negative things said about
    >trans fatty acids. What foods contain trans fatty acids?
    >I have heard some say that eating margarine is now
    >unhealthy and eating butter is better for you. It wasn't
    >that many years ago that butter was the unhealthy food
    >choice and margarine was the better health choice.
    >Anyone have any wisdom on trans fatty acids?

    Report
  8. Moosh:)
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    #8

    On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:06:12 GMT, "Ray K." <[email hidden]>
    posted:

    Quoted message said:

    Hi Chad,

    Yes, almost everyone, especially in the alternative
    medicine field, warns against them. I'm just trying to
    understand /why/, in view of the way the digestive system
    "disassembes" fats, and carbs and proteins, into their
    basic building blocks before absorption. Maybe my
    understanding of digestion is faulty.

    Chemistry, I suspect. Fats are broken down into glycerine
    and fatty acids, it's the fatty acids which are differently
    bonded. (cis, trans)

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