FAT: GOOD or BAD?

Today, we will demystify what are good and bad fats!

In small quantities, "good fats" are necessary for the absorption of essential vitamins to ensure a healthy lifestyle and help fight diseases. They also help the body in eliminating "bad" blood cholesterol.

The following foods contain "good" fats; thus more benefits than risks for your overall health:
• Nuts like Pecans, almonds and walnuts.
• Coconut oil
• Avocado
• Olive oil
• Fish such as salmon, trout, herring and sardines.
• Milled flax seeds and hemp
• Omega 3 enriched eggs

Bad Processed Fats
First, bad processed fats are created by modern man. They are apparent in artificial hydrogenated oils. The main culprits are margarine and partially hydrogenated oils, which are in most processed foods and fried foods.

Hydrogenated oils are highly processed with aggressive chemical solvents such as hexane (a component of gasoline), high heat, pressure, an added metallic catalyst, are then bleached and deodorized. A small percentage of the solvent is allowed to remain in the finite oil. It then becomes industrial oil rather that a nutritional based oil. But, food manufacturers are authorized to include this type of hydrogenated oils in our foods in huge quantities, with proof in written documents showing their health hazard.

Hydrogenated oils provoke inflammation in your body, which results in the deposit of cholesterol on your arteries. Therefore, hydrogenated oil = inflammation = clogged arteries.

However, keep in mind that companies have started to gradually eliminate the use of hydrogenated oils in processed foods, by replacing them in most cases with polyunsaturated highly refined oils like soybean oil, cottonseed oil, corn oil, etc. These oils are still highly processed using high heat, solvent, deodorants and bleach. Refined oils are known to produce inflammation in your body... far from being natural and healthy fat sources.

Don’t be fooled by food indicating "no trans-fat"... The fact that they extensively use refined oils (even if it is not hydrogenated), it is still trash for your body!

Best is to completely avoid highly processed foods and choose full, natural foods, and a minimum of processed foods.

NOTE: Remember that the leading food manufacturers have the right to label food as "without processed fats" if 1 portion contains less than 0.5 grams of processed fats. And what’s the result? There are some products with hydrogenated oils as one of their main ingredients, but if the portion size is small enough on the label, which would then make it contain less than 0.5 grams of processed fat per serving, they can label it without processed fats...

Source: http://www.maigrirsansfaim.com