Unclog My Heart... Obesity Takes It In the Gut!

You ARE what you eat! ~ Anonymous

Leading the nation to a trimmer, healthier personna, NYC officially bans artery-clogging artificial trans-fatty products from restaturants... this includes the local pizzeria to high-end dining.

In addition, to having to eliminating trans-fatty foods and oils, fast-food chains and restaurants will now have to post the "calorie count" of the food they serve.


Trans Fat DANGER!
Trans fats are artifical and are formed when liquid oils are made into solid fats by adding hydrogen in a process called hydrogenation where the oil turns to solid form. A common example of this is partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, which is used for frying and baking and turns up in processed foods like cookies, pizza dough, and crackers... in a solid form that adds to the "weight" of the products while providing extra "fat" with no nutritional benefits. Trans fats, which are favored by manufacturers because of their long shelf life, are also found in pre-made blends like pancake and hot chocolate mix.

Because trans fats are not digested they linger in our system, accumulate, and clog-up our arteries.

Many doctors believed trans fats to be so harmful because they facilitate heart disease by raising bad cholesterol and lowering good cholesterol at the same time. Some experts say that makes trans fats worse than saturated fat because of this double whammy effect.

From Crisco to Frankenstein?
While trans fats occur naturally, in small quantities, in meat and dairy products from ruminants. Most trans fats consumed today, however, are industrially created as a side effect of partial hydrogenation of plant oils — a process developed in the early 1900s and first commercialized as Crisco in 1911. Partial hydrogenation changes a fat's molecular structure (raising its melting point and reducing rancidity) but this process also results in a proportion of the changed fat becoming trans fat.

Unlike other fats, trans fats are neither required nor beneficial for health. (Source: Wikipedia)

The FDA estimates that the average American eats 4.7 pounds of trans fats each year. Yeccah!

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