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So did a couple of videos on what trans
fats are and how to read labels to avoid
them but here we're gonna talk about
what do they really do what are the side
effects what do they cause so that you
understand how important it is to avoid
these things so first of all how are
they made well it's a very unnatural
process they start with a liquid oil
that has already been processed from soy
beans or safflower or canola or
something to make it liquid and
tasteless and odorless but then they add
high pressure they add high temperature
and these are very very high pressures
and temperatures and we know high
temperatures destroy oils then they
inject hydrogen gas in the presence of a
metal catalyst such as nickel and
working with Nutrition Response Testing
I can't tell you how often people come
in with metal sensitivities and nickel
being one of the top sensitivities that
we see so metal it's not something that
we want to add to our food. Some of the
diseases that are associated that have
been found correlated: cardiovascular
disease heart disease so trans fats they
increase the LDL they decrease the HDL
in the increased triglyceride so all of
the markers these aren't bad in
themselves but they're markers of health
problems and trans fats worsen every one
of them and it worsens all the ratios
all the risk ratios as far as evaluating
cardiovascular risk pregnancy it's been
shown to increase preeclampsia and
gestational diabetes that means the
blood pressure that people that mothers
get during pregnancy and the diabetes
the blood sugar spikes that they get
I've all been associated with trans-fats
the length of the pregnancy they tend to
deliver sooner resulting in more
prematurely born babies and these
trans-fats they compete with the body's
long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids
that's a big name for the fish oil types
of essential fatty acids the EPA and the
DHA that we have in the body so the EPA
is anti-inflammatory the DHA is maybe
the most important building block for
the retina and the central nervous
system so if the baby is developing and
the nervous system is growing at an
incredible rate it has to have a lot of
this DHA and trans fats compete with it
interfering with the proper formation of
the central nervous system and the
retina for vision it's been associated
with diabetes trans fats increase
insulin resistance and thereby type-2
diabetes it's been correlated to
increase allergies and also to breast
cancer and it does this by three
different mechanisms that influence all
of the others combined so there's a lot
of overlap these are not separate
conditions trans fats interfere with the
body in its most fundamental mechanisms
so it alters immune responses
cancer is an immune condition it alters
the cell wall integrity and this is huge
because everything the nervous system
does everything that every cell does
depends on the integrity of that cell
membrane every cell is a is an enclosed
entity that and the membrane decides
what gets to come in and what goes out
so if we compromised that cell wall
integrity now the brain can't signal
properly the cells can't do their job
properly because they can't regulate as
tightly what comes in and what goes out
it alters
the prostaglandin synthesis and balance
of prostaglandins are chemical
messengers that are involved with
regulation of inflammation so
inflammation isn't a bad thing there's
the time to increase and there's the
time to decrease inflammation and the
body knows how to regulate that
but the trans-fats mess with that
ability and that balance and trans-fats
selectively stimulates the
pro-inflammatory prostaglandins and
every degenerative disease that we know
has a low-grade chronic inflammation at
its foundation so why is there so much
controversy about fat okay it's the food
source that has been the most demonized
of any food out there and everyone has
an opinion is it sugar that's bad is it
fat that's bad and the controversy goes
on and on here's what it's all about
in my opinion that everything bad that
we have gotten the idea that fat causes
is because we have been eating man-made
fats since we started making margarine
50 70 80 years ago and they become part
of mainstream and we ate more and more
man-made fats and trans fats we get
sicker and sicker and sicker and we
didn't differentiate between natural
fats and man-made fats we just called it
fats and we created this idea that fats
are bad when in effect it is man-made
fats that are bad and the trans fats is
the icing on the cake in the worst kind
of way everyone today agrees this is as
bad or worse than processed sugar this
is a poison it's a toxin it's up there
with with lead and pesticides and
artificial sweeteners so in 2006 the
government started requiring labeling
and we talked about that in another
video but all they saying is if it has
less than half a gram of trans fats per
serving
and you can make the serving tiny tiny
tiny then you can label that product
zero grams of trans-fat so we have all
these products that have up to 10% trans
fats they're riddled with this nasty
stuff and they still get to put a big
fat zero on the package so even today
even though they have basically try to
ban trans fats every one is the the
processed food industry is always
working to sneak around the rules so
today we still have according to the FDA
95% of cookies have trans fats in them
80% of frozen breakfasts it says
desserts should be breakfasts 75% of
snacks and chips 70% of cake mixes 50%
of cereals
and you know those health foods that you
serve your kids for breakfast the best
way to start your day
50% of those are have trans fats in them
so everyone knows that it's a problem
but what do they do about it so they
turn their hope to science hoping that
science will once more come to the
rescue and what does science do well
they go and try to modify the
hydrogenation process so they're playing
with the the components the pressure and
the temperature and the gas and the
metals to see if they can play with
these variables to create less trans
fats and there's a process called an
esterification where they try to put
together the the way the triglycerides
fit together they try to alter that and
then they try to genetically modify the
they start playing with the genetics of
the soybean oil and the sunflower seeds
to see if they can create an oil that is
already more solid from the beginning
really seriously so you have a
frankenfood that causes death and
destruction and your solution is to make
more
frankenfoods have we learned nothing
nature makes the perfect food we don't
have to mess with it
show me one time where science has
created a new food has altered a food at
the chemical level at the bite at the
molecular level and created a healthier
food has never happened and it is my
opinion that it will never happen
because we're working in the wrong arena
let the scientists make better cars and
smarter cellphones and and better
computers but don't think that they can
mess with biology we we have no
knowledge of biology at that level to
start messing with it if science learns
how to make a living cell show me how to
make a living cell and I'll start paying
attention I'll start giving them some
credit and saying ok maybe you can start
playing now but until that time they
better stay out of it so what you can do
is stop spending your money if you don't
buy it they won't make it ok so what is
the solution what's the real solution by
whole food by natural food by butter
grass-fed butter by coconut oil by
extra-virgin olive oil
stick with the things that Mother Nature
has already produced for us and you'll
be in good hands so learn how to select
the good foods if it says partially
hydrogenated or hydrogenated it has
trans fats no matter how big the zero is
on the front of the box learn this stuff
and teach it to others so you can save
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