The U.S. is being slowly poisoned by a "SINGLE INGREDIENT" deliberately added to our food supply!

So are there any "convenient" meals that dont have this stuff in it? I only ask this because I have MS and "easy" meals are best for my current situation. :grimace:

I just put a big blob in my soup I had for lunch.
Mmmmmmm.... margarine.

Fats have double bonded carbons in the chain. For example DHA and EPA have many . The more double bonds the more reactive the faster the fat breaks down. By hydrogenating, you add hydrogen atoms to the fat to get rid of these double bonds thus stabilizing the oil/fat.

For example
C=C <-- has 2 hydrogens on the end C's (carbon)

C-C=C-C <--has 3 H on end C's and 1 H on each mid C's.

Hydrogenating turns the above molecule into the below molecule. It effectively adds two hydrogen atoms to the example organic chain.

C-C-C-C <--- Has 3 hydrogens on end C's and 2 H's on mid C's,(Hydrogenated)

I just put a big blob in my soup I had for lunch.
Mmmmmmm.... margarine.

Go eat a bucket of Crisco dumb ass.

crisco is a great moisturizer. it does wonders for cracked heels and is even good as a facial moisturizer. especially in winter. so if you have some and don't want to eat it use it on the outside of the body.

Don't forget to check deodorants lotions soaps etc.. If these have hydrogenated oils, they are still getting into your body through your skin!!

It isn't that expensive to eat well. It is hard work though. Get off your ass in the spring/summer/fall and plant a garden. If you don't have space, maybe a friend or family member does and will let you use it if you share the harvest with them. Many places have community gardens now. Then you have to learn to preserve it. Utilize your local farmer's markets. Look for your meats locally as well since you can often buy direct from a farmer instead of going through the grocery store.

If you know where your food comes from you bypass a lot of the crap in processed foods. You can create your own freezer meals, frozen pizzas, soup mixes (dehydrator needed) and all without the junk. It just takes work.

It isn't that expensive to eat well. It is hard work though. Get off your ass in the spring/summer/fall and plant a garden. If you don't have space, maybe a friend or family member does and will let you use it if you share the harvest with them. Many places have community gardens now. Then you have to learn to preserve it. Utilize your local farmer's markets. Look for your meats locally as well since you can often buy direct from a farmer instead of going through the grocery store.

If you know where your food comes from you bypass a lot of the crap in processed foods. You can create your own freezer meals, frozen pizzas, soup mixes (dehydrator needed) and all without the junk. It just takes work.

Bacon is NOT hydrogenated oil!!! People ate lard and meat for 1,ooo's of years with NO heart disease.... until they invented hydrogenated oil in the early 1900s! Then people started dropping like flies!

Based on years of independent personal research, I can say I wholeheartedly agree with the message of this article.

Neurotransmitters (the chemicals that give you pleasure, excitement, peace, love, etc) and their receptors are made out of fatty acids...trans fat acids are, literally, physically the wrong shape due to the hydrogenation process. When there are no good fats available, your body tries to construct this stuff with misshapen hydrogenated fatty acids, and unsurprisingly, that doesn't work very well.

Its one of the biggest causes of all sorts of mental/emotional problems in Western society.

I recommend avoiding hydrogenated oils entirely (which sadly means no eating out unless the restaurant is very honest with you) as well as supplementing high quality fish oil as well as chia seeds, the latter of which can repair your gut fatty acid receptor sites, a tidbit I learned on this very website! (search for the thread here about chia seeds from a few months ago)

umm dumbshit the average life expecteancy pre 1900's was anywhere from 20 to 35

I hate all these threads that scare people to death with what NOT to eat!
When is someone going to add to it and come up with a list of stuff that is SAFE/GOOD to eat?!!!
Please?!!!

I hate all these threads that scare people to death with what NOT to eat!
When is someone going to add to it and come up with a list of stuff that is SAFE/GOOD to eat?!!!
Please?!!!

It's very hard! I have to shop at whole foods market because almost eveything in the grocery store is tainted with something that is poisen to us. That is why the top killers today are cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc... You really have to radically change your diet. Organic, raw foods. There is no other way. I made the change a couple years ago. It is hard, but has to be done.

umm dumbshit the average life expecteancy pre 1900's was anywhere from 20 to 35

I love bacon and eat lots of it.

Shortening Tards !

Bacon is NOT hydrogenated oil!!! People ate lard and meat for 1,ooo's of years with NO heart disease.... until they invented hydrogenated oil in the early 1900s! Then people started dropping like flies!