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Trans Fats are Bad Fats.  Good Fats are food fats.

Good fats 

Fat in the diet is called a triglyceride. Triglycerides are made of three fatty acids attached to a "spine" of glycerine. That's why soap contains glycerine, when the fatty acids are released to combine with an oil to form soap. Well, a similar thing happens in the body. Once ingested, the fatty acids are quickly separated in a healthy liver from the glycerine skeleton and made available as free agents.

Cell walls

Most of the fatty acids are taken up to form cell walls. 80% of each of your 50 trillion cells are composed of fatty acids. But there's more. The surplus fatty acids form cholesterol in a healthy liver.

Bad fats

So what are bad or trans fats? They are vegetable oils or other fats that have been damaged by heat and changed from the cis to the trans shape (trans fats) and often combined with oxygen. This makes them go rancid. In your body, rancid fats pick up fancy names like "free radicles" or reactive oxygen species (ROS). The cholesterol they form becomes "bad cholesterol" that is transported through your bloodstream by the infamous "LDL"-bound cholesterol. The free radicles they harbour cause your own cells to mutate or die and eventually are primary causes of cancer. They clog up artery walls, are poor suppliers of energy and can accumulate in your body. This causes your blood pressure to rise and to lose your sex drive. If this is you, contact us for a solution.


 

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