Hydrogenated and Partially Hydrogenated Oils Make You Fat!

Hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils are Transfats that have been subjected to torturous processes that create fats and oils that the body has not evolved to digest. These oils will not only kill you in the long term by producing diseases like type II Diabetes, multiple sclerosis and arthritis, but by depriving you of essential fatty acids, they will actually make you fat!

Simply Put, Transfats Make You Eat More

Essential fatty acids (Omega 3 and Omega 6) are fats that are vital to every metabolic function in your body. Your body can’t make them and your body MUST have them. You’re body will keep you craving food until it gets the quantity of essential fatty acids that it needs to sustain life. You will not stop being hungry until you give your body what it needs.

The Key To Getting Thin Is . . .

The key to staying – or getting – thin is to the foods that contain large amounts of polyunsaturated oils. (Those foods include cold water fish like salmon and tuna, olives, nuts, and egg yolks. Avoid farm raised salmon – farmers have managed to change the healthy oils in those fish because of the foods they are feeding them) Foods rich in healthy fats remove your sense of hunger. You can also go straight to the source and consume well balanced oils like Udo’s Perfected Blend (available in the refrigerated section of health food stores) or New Spirit Natural’s Golden Omega Omega (available on line). I add a tablespoon or two to my breakfast smoothie or use these oils as the basis for my balsamic vinaigrette. Never ever cook these oils! Use butter or coconut oil for cooking.

Hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils make you gain weight the same way that saturated fats do. They increase your cravings for fat, and products that contain fat, to get your necessary daily requirement of essential fatty acids which they themselves lack. But partially hydrogenated fats have a downside much greater than saturated fats. Not only do they produce chronic disease over the long term, but they interfere with you body's ability to ingest and utilize healthy good fats! They actually block your cells abilities to take in and utilize healthy fats. It’s kind of like carbon monoxide which jumps onto the circulating hemoglobin and won’t get off. In that case, your body starves for oxygen. In the case of Transfats, your cells starve for fat. Your body keeps adding fat. The fat can’t get into your cells to satisfy their metabolic needs, so it gets stored as fat on your stomach, thighs, buttocks, arms etc.

Partially hydrogenated and hydrogenated fats are poisons.

Partially hydrogenated and hydrogenated fats are poisons, just like strychnine and cyanide. They interfere with your metabolic processes by taking the place of a natural substance, healthy, essential fats, which perform critical functions. Because hydrogenated fats never existed in our billions of years of evolution, your body has no defense against them – your body doesn’t know what to do with them and never evolved a defense against the. The immediate effect is to slow your metabilism.
The worst hydrogenated oil (and the most plentiful) is soybean oil. Soybean oil depresses the thyroid. A depressed thyroid lowers your energy levels, makes you feel less like exercising, and contributes to weight gain! Because it’s cheap and flexible, hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils are hidden in most processed foods. Remember processers go for cheap and soybean oil is cheap. When you eat out you are generally eating food packed with cheap unhealthy oil and cheap unhealthy sugar substitute. Simply put this is the reason for the explosion in obesity, heart disease, type II diabetes and cancer. Soybean oil has another down side in that most of it is made from genetically modified plants. There is a real possibility of interfering with our children’s reproductive systems which could have devastating effects on future generations.

Now that more and more people are alert to the down side of hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated fats and oils manufacturers have begun to change words. Mono-glycerides and di-glycerides now featured on labels are substitute words for hydrogenated oil products.

Why Fad Diets Contribute to Weight Gain

If you’ve been on every diet in the world, well maybe not EVERY diet but a good number of them, and you’ve lost weight and then gained it back plus a few pounds – also known as the yo-yo effect – here’s why.

The “Lose Weight In A Short Time” diets are structured to do two things: lose water and lose protein. The body requires a steady input of protein throughout the day in order to build new cell walls as they age and break down as well as to perform other cell functions. Deprive it of protein in your food, and it looks for a new source of protein. The most convenient source of available protein is yourself. That’s right. When you are on fad diets that deprive your body of protein your body literally cannibalizes itself. Of course the body isn’t stupid. It takes its protein from the most expendable source it can find. The heart is not expendable, your internal organs aren’t expendable, and your brain – which is running the show – wouldn’t knowingly do anything to damage itself, so your body chooses to take protein from something that won’t immediately kill you – your lean muscle mass.

Nasty weight loss behaviors like bulimia and anorexia also introduce problems like mineral imbalance and are apt to kill you from potassium deprivation before it fully cannibalizes itself, but let’s just stick with the major problem of losing lean muscle mass.

Lean muscle mass actually burns calories. It burns fat while you sleep. It is your body’s single greatest calorie burner and very important in weight loss. That’s why good diets suggest muscle building weighted exercise along with aerobics (which doesn’t build muscle as its primary objective). Losing lean muscle mass literally means that you are undermining your body’s ability to burn calories every time you go on a fad diet. This makes it increasingly difficult to lose weight and easier and faster to gain weight. The pattern is to lose weight fast, lose muscle mass, gain weight back, go on another fast diet, lose more muscle mass, gain weight back faster, and on and on and on. Every time you to on a fad diet you lessen your ability to lose weight easily and heighten you ability to gain it back faster.

The answer is: avoid fad diets like the plague. One of the reasons teenagers are struggling with weight right now is – not only because they’re eating too much junk food but because they’ve started yo-yo dieting. Once on the yo-yo, it’s hard to get off. A good rule, if your teenager will cooperate, is to have them bring a healthy lunch to school. They will feel better through the day and – quite frankly – you don’t want your children eating school lunches EVER.

To lose weight, you want to change your lifestyle so that you eat three good meals a day and, if you get hungry between meals, drink water and have a very small protein rich snack. The rule for protein is: eat an amount of protein equal to the size of the palm of your hand three times a day. Drink 8-10 8 ounce glasses of water through the day, one on rising, one half hour before each meal and the rest mostly between meals. Eat all the raw or steamed green vegetables you want at meals, eat 6-8 almonds or a piece of string cheese between meals and eat that kind of a snack and drink a glass of water half an hour before attending a cocktail or dinner party so you don’t drink alcohol from thirst, or eat things your normally wouldn’t touch from hunger.

This diet is outlined in Suzy Prudden's Itty Bitty Weight Loss Book which is the smallest, fastest to read, lifestyle changing and best diet ever written.