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.