HAVE YOU HEARD THE

NEWS??

 

BYE, BYE TRANS FATS!

 



Have you all heard the great news????  In case you have not........let me make your day!!! The Food and Drug Administration has now ruled that the food industry has only 3 years to eliminate nasty artery clogging artificial TRANS FATS from our food supply!!  Hip Hip Hooray!!!! We won!!! This decision is said to be expected to save not hundreds, but thousands of lives each year and prevent approximately 20,000 heart attacks. 

 

Some of you may be asking....What is trans fats?? Trans fat is what is formed when liquid oil is treated with hydrogen gas and then becomes a solid.  Yum, Yum....doesn't that sound appetizing!!!  This POSER FAT is being used to give processed foods a longer life and change the taste and texture of the food. The heck with our health....lets just make it taste better...makes absolutely NO sense!!!   However, over the years, studies have shown that trans fats not only raise bad cholesterol levels (LDL), it also lowers our good cholesterol (HDL)......it's a double whammy on our bodies!.  That is why trans fats are such a major contributor to heart disease in our country.  Trans fats have already been reduced in many of our foods, but they can still be found in many products such as frostings, frozen pizzas, stick margarines, coffee creamers, boxed cookies/cakes, refrigerated dough (yes, even the cookie roll!), microwave popcorn, and basically anything that can stay in your pantry and last longer than the life of your car!!!

 

So everybody look forward to 2018 and one less thing to think about when we hit the supermarket jungle......but until then....choose wisely and read your food labels!!!