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Partially Hydrogenated Oils Kill MSG Candidiasis
Consuming partially hydrogenated oils is like breathing cigarette
smoke. It will kill you,
slowly, over time, but as surely as you breathe. And in the meantime,
it will make you fat! The first thing to understand about fats is that the essential fatty acids they contain are truly essential. They are the "active ingredient" in every bodily process you can name: brain cell function and nervous system activity The essential fatty acids (contained mostly in polyunsaturated
oils) are the most important nutrients there are -- more important
than vitamins, minerals, or even proteins. Because, without them,
there is no life. They are the substance and foundation of life
energy. Hydrogenation is the process of heating an oil and passing hydrogen bubbles through it. The fatty acids in the oil then acquire some of the hydrogen, which makes it more dense. If you fully hydrogenate, you create a solid (a fat) out of the oil. But if you stop part way, you make a semi-solid partially hydrogenated oil that has a consistency like butter, only it's a lot cheaper. Because of that consistency, and because it is cheap, it is a big favorite as a butter-substitute among "food" producers. It gives their products a richer flavor and texture, but doesn't cost near as much as it would to add butter. Note: What's Wrong with Hydrogenation? Unlike butter or virgin coconut oil, hydrogenated oils contain high levels of trans fats. A trans fat is an otherwise normal fatty acid that has been "transmogrified", by high-heat processing of a free oil. The fatty acids can be double-linked, cross-linked, bond-shifted, twisted, or changed in a variety of other ways. The problem with trans fats is that while the "business end" (the chemically active part) is messed up, the "anchor end" (the part that is attached to the cell wall) is unchanged. So they take up their position in the cell wall, like a guard on the fortress wall. But like a bad guard, they don't do their job! They let foreign invaders pass unchallenged, and they stop supplies at the gates instead of letting them in. In other words, trans fats are
poisons, just like arsenic or cyanide. They
interfere with the metabolic processes of life by taking the place
of a natural substance that performs a critical function. And that
is the definition of a poison. Your body has no defense against
them! Partially hydrogenated oils will not only kill you in the long
term by producing diseases like multiple sclerosis and allergies
that lead to arthritis, but in the meantime they will make you fat! It's not like you have any choice in the matter. Remember that the essential fatty acids are vital to every metabolic function in your body. You will get the quantity of essential fatty acids that you need to sustain life, no matter what. You will not stop being hungry until you do. If you are consuming lots of saturated fats, you really have no choice but to become fat, because saturated fats contain only small quantities of the polyunsaturated fats that contain the essential fatty acids you need. The key to being thin, then, is to consume foods containing large amounts of polyunsaturated oils. (Those foods include fish, olives, nuts, and egg yolks.) Over the long term, those foods remove your sense of hunger. Note: Partially hydrogenated oils make you gain weight the same way that saturated fats do -- by making you consume even more fat to get the the essential fatty acids you need. But partially hydrogenated fats are even worse. Not only do they produce disease over they long term, but they interfere with the body's ability to ingest and utilize the good fats! Your Metabolism Slows... Worse, most partially hydrogenated oil is partially hydrogenated soybean oil. That's a problem, because soybean oil depresses the thyroid--which lowers your energy levels, makes you feel less like exercising, and generally makes you fatter! Of course, soybeans have been used for centuries in the Orient--but mostly as the basis for soy sauce and tofu. Asians didn't have soy milk, soy burgers, soy this and soy that. Most of all, they never used concentrated essence of soybean, in the form of soybean oil. And they didn't hydrogenate it, and they didn't use it in everything. Walking down supermarket aisles in America, you find product after product with partially hydrogenated oil--often in products you would never expect. But why not? After all, it's cheaper than butter. And it's not illegal. Yet. When you eat out, restaurant breads and fried foods are loaded with stuff. Americans are consuming soybean oil, partially hydrogenated soybean
oil in virtually everything they eat. It's no wonder that America
is experiencing epidemic levels of diabetes,
obesitiy, heart disease, and cancer. When you start reading food labels, it is astonishing how many products you will find that contain partially hydrogenated oils. In the chips aisle, there are very few brands that don't. Then there are the cookies and crackers. Most every single one does. About the only cookie that doesn't is Paul Neuman's fig newtons. Among peanut butters, the all-natural brands (Adams and Laura Scudders) don't. All the rest seem to. Even some items on the "health food" shelf, like Tigers Milk bars, contain partially hydrogenated oils. Can you imagine that?? A product marketed as a "health food" that contains partially hydrogenated oils? If they want to market it as a candy bar, fine. But, to market it as a health food is an absolute lie! It just goes to show you what we've come to. The more labels you read, the more astonished you will be at the variety and number of places that this insidious killer shows up. Do read the labels. Manufacturers are now using "mono-diglycerides," another hydrogenated oil product. Deep-Fried Foods: The Other Killer Fortunately, this information is beginning to penetrate the public consciousness. Recently, a news special covered the subject. The reporter got some of the details wrong, but the general message was right. And the one surprising piece of information in the report was the fact that most of the deep-fried foods served in fast food joints are fried in partially hydrogenated oils! Now, deep frying all by itself is pretty bad. After all, you are applying a lot of heat. But if that heat is applied to a saturated fat, there is a limit to how much harm it can do. There is no part of it that is chemically active. It's inert. Your body can burn it for fuel, but it can't use it to carry out any of your metabolic processes. But because a saturated fat is inert, it can't be hurt much by heat. It's not all that good for you, but it's not terrible either. So if you're going to fry, fry in a fully saturated fat like lard, or coconut oil. Or, use butter, which consists mostly of short-chain saturated fats that are easily burned for fuel, plus conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) which improves health. And butter tastes great. Even better, you could fry with coconut oil, which consists of medium chain fatty acids that contain 2/3's the calories of long-chain saturated fats. They're also metabolized differently, so they're burned for energy instead of being stored as fat. And if that's not enough, 50% of coconut oil consists of lauric acid, a medium-chain fatty acid that's anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-fungus, and anti-yeast. For commercial deep frying, though, butter is prohibitively expensive. Things were better when foods were fried in beef tallow and coconut oil, because they had a lot of flavor and the saturated fats aren't harmed by the heat. But all that saturated fat sounds bad, so restaurants switched to partially hydrogenated vegetable oils. One "healthy" Mexican restaurant even advertised that they fried in vegetable oil. That would be somewhat better than partially hydrogenated oil, assuming that they weren't using partially hydrogenated vegetable oil in the the first place, but subjecting the unsaturated fatty acids contained in a vegetable oil to the high heat of a deep frying vat is deadly, especially when the oil is used and reused all day long. The result would be the same kind of trans fats that you get in the hydrogenation process! The absolute worst commercial frying is done by the fast-food chains,
who almost uniformly do their deep frying in cheap, deadly partially-hydrogenated
oil. Any fats that escaped being transmogrified in the hydrogenation
process are now subjected to the deep frying process. Read food labels and avoid anything that contains the words "hydrogenated". That means partially hydrogenated oils, hydrogenated oils, or anything of that kind (and mono-diglycerides, as well). Note: When eating out, avoid deep-fried foods at all costs and pretend you're allergic to wheat. When you avoid wheat you stay away from both partially hydrogenated oils and high fructose corn syrup, another deadly ingredient in the American food supply that is rarely used in other countries, except where American corporations are involved. If you follow those steps, you will do a good job of protecting yourself. But there is a simple thing you can do to help protect others, as well: When you see a food that contains partially hydrogenated oils
(especially if it claims to be healthy), put it back on the shelf
upside down and backwards. (Sometimes it's impossible to put things
back upside down, so at least put them on the shelf backwards.) To those who know about the boycott (you!) the package's orientation serves as a warning. To those who don't, the orientation at least makes it more likely that they'll buy something else. Generally, I'll only do it for the product I'm holding in my hand. But when I see a product that pretends to be "healthy", I'll turn over all the items at the front of the shelf. It's one thing to eat junk food and know I'm eating junk food. (I'm not perfect.) But it's another thing entirely to poison people by tricking them into thinking they're getting something healthy. That just "ticks me off!" Hopefully, the first lawsuits against "food" producers will begin in the next 10-20 years. The scientific knowledge has been available since the early 1990's, so there's no doubt they are fully aware of what they're doing. They're ignoring the health effects for the sake of profit. Their behavior is both unethical and immoral. My hope, is that someday it will be illegal, as well.
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