Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Does non-hydrogenated margarine still lead to heart disease or clogged arteries


Does non-hydrogenated margarine still lead to heart disease or clogged arteries?
Or just make you fat?:p I know hydrogenated is really bad...
Heart Diseases - 2 Answers
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Eat satured (natural) fats...that is what everyone did a century ago and a heart attack was rare. Also up your intake of vitamin B6, vitamin B12 and folate. This lowers homocysteine (an amino acid in the blood) that at high levels is toxic. This amino acid is the leading cause of heart attack and stroke. Homocysteine - the silent killer: http://www.squidoo.com/homocysteine-hcy
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Hydrogenated fats (trans fatty acids) If you pick up a packaged product (crackers, cookies) from the supermarket and read the label on the side you will probably learn that the product contains hydrogenated fats. The food industry routinely takes the fats that are going to be added to packaged foods and adds hydrogen to them in the laboratory. This way the fat doesn’t go rancid so quickly and the product will last a long time on the shelf. The process of hydrogenation causes the molecule to twist over on itself so that the structure of the molecule changes. What starts as a cis formation turns into a trans formation. http://altmedcabinet.com/heart_disease.htm



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