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Why Hydrogenated Oils Are Bad For You

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Warning: Do not eat foods that contain partially hydrogenated and hydrogenated fats. These fats are found in all kinds of packaged and junk food. Food manufacturers really don’t care about your health when they add hydrogenated oils to their foods.

Good clean vegetable oils are hydrogenated to create shortenings and margarines. Vegetable oils are partially hydrogenated, so they can be added to many foods since they become a source of cheap fat and increase the shelf life of the food product.

What do hydrogenated oils do? When healthy oils are processed through bubbling hydrogen at temperatures up to 210 C, unnatural fatty acids are created that are called trans-fatty acids.

Your body is unable to use these unnatural fatty acids, so the liver sees them as toxic waste and proceeds to detoxify and eliminate them. Trans-fatty acids are one of the most toxic wastes that can be inside your body. Trans fatty acids, too, can block your body’s use of essential fatty acids.

Hydrogenated oils also have all of their nutrients removed during their processing. This forces the removal of vitamins and minerals from your body to help digest the stripped…