Dr. Mercola January 18 2007 7,835 views
When it comes to the increasing public awareness about the dangers of trans fats, there’s good news and there’s bad news. The good news: more and more cities are considering bans on toxic trans fats, and increasing numbers of food companies are taking these health-harming fats out of their products.
The bad news? Some of these companies may be trading one disaster for another. A study has found that a new method of modifying fat in commercial products to replace trans fats raises blood glucose and depresses insulin, both precursors to diabetes. Meanwhile, like trans fat, the new fat also lowers good “HDL” cholesterol.
The modified fat, called interesterified fat, is fast becoming the method of choice for food manufacturers to replace trans fats because it still allows for longer shelf lives in the foods. Interesterified fat is a modified fat that includes hydrogenation followed by rearrangements of fats molecules by the process called interesterification. This process unnaturally rearranges the position of individual fatty acids on the fat molecule, and can alter metabolism in humans. In the study, unmodified saturated fat, which has unfairly gotten a bad rap all along, was not associated with negative effects.
If you want to avoid dangerous fats of all kinds, your best option is still to avoid processed foods, even those with no trans fats, and opt for healthy fat sources from whole foods, according to your nutritional type.
Nutrition & Metabolism January 15, 2007, 4:3 Science Daily January 18, 2007
This is my opinion, when they feel they are getting too much pressure from society, they change. They want to show their alignment with us and that they care, but they do not. Just like with sugar, there was a push against it in the past. So it is eliminated from foods, but they camoflage it with any other sugar ending in -ose. Most Americans do not know that. The same goes for Hydrogenated fats. It is all an illusion!
Hi all! I'm from Malaysia. May I know whether these "Z Trim (interesterified fat)" can be found in my country? Thanks.
Actually in Malaysia, Palm oil is abundant, compare to coconut oil. There are a lot of brand of cooking oils, namely Knife, Eagle, Buruh and so forth are labelled as producing by palm olein oil.
Palm oil contains an equal proportion of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids, with about 44% palmitic acid, 5 % stearic acid; 40% oleic acid, 10% linolenic acid (both polyunsaturated).
For your information, most of the Malaysians choose palm olein oil in cooking. We seldom use coconut oil, because coconut oil contains large amount of saturated fat, greater than palm oil.
I realize that Z-Trim is not good, and for this reason, I would like to know whether this FATS are available in my country or not, so that I can avoid THEM in future. Thanks for sharing!!!!
Z-Trim is a licensed brand, developed from USDA, with your hard earned tax dollars for private profit.
It's from the same folks who brought you FAILED Oat-Trim...pushing waist bi-products from Agri-Business.
No doubt several genetically modified corn based chemistry kit fat replacers, that glow in the dark, are forthcoming from these failed rocket scientists, to a supermarket shelf near you soon, labeled as organic, natural, and Mother Teresa blessed.
The body count on FAKE and BAD FOR YOU fat substitutes is long, including but not limited to polydextrose (polyol bases and laxative inducing, it looks like, and is a plastic or polymer and no doubt cancer causing); plum pastes(formerly prune but lobbied to change it's name like rapeseed to canola did, and this stuff is full of fake starches and refined sugars, plus giving you the runs); dirreaha inducing and cancer causing alcohol distilled sweeteners; and oh yes, let's not forget olestra, or OLEAN brand (everyone's favorite anal leakage and loose stools labeled fat substitute, from the glycerol and mineral oil soap scientists at Proctor & Gamble).
Needless to say, if it does not exist in nature, there is a higher probability the 'stuff' Big Fat Substitue Food is hawking, will eventually come to bite you, or is that relieve you?, via the cancer ward, and your wallet, in the entrails.
That is absolutely correct!!!