What Are Trans Fats

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1 What types of Trans Fats exist?2 Why Are Artificial Trans Fats Harmful?3 Where Are Trans Fats Found?

What are Trans Fats (Trans Fats). What types of Trans Fats exist. Which Trans Fats are harmful and which are beneficial. Where they are found.

Most people are afraid of fats and blame them for excess weight and diseases. Most people try to avoid fats.

But do people know that there are different types of fats? Do they know that vegetable fat does not necessarily mean it is healthy.

I have already “covered” many fats: Saturated, which include butter and coconut oils, Unsaturated — which include most vegetable oils.

The time has come to talk about fats whose harmfulness no one even argues about anymore.

It has already been proven by everyone that Trans Fats are the most dangerous type of fats that should be avoided by everyone who cares about their health.

But did you know that natural Trans Fats also exist and their consumption brings invaluable benefits to our body.

The difference between Trans Fats will be discussed in this post.

What are trans fats?

These are Trans Fatty Acids, a form of Unsaturated fat.

Trans Fats are made from vegetable oils by adding hydrogen atoms. And one might think, what could this hydrogen do? But it is precisely because of their chemical structure that Trans Fats are capable of causing serious harm to our body.

Unlike Saturated fats, which do not contain double bonds in their structure, Unsaturated fats contain at least one double bond (Monounsaturated contain one double bond, Polyunsaturated contain 2 or more).

The double bond can be in the “normal” configuration (on one side) or in the “trans” configuration (on the opposite side) — this is the position of the hydrogen atoms around the double bonds.

Trans Fats trigger the formation of substances unfamiliar to our body, which do not occur naturally in nature, and our body does not know how to process and absorb these substances.

What types of Trans Fats exist?

There are 2 types of Trans Fats: naturally occurring in nature and industrial, hydrogenated Trans Fats.

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Natural Trans Fats are formed when bacteria in the digestive tract of ruminant animals (goat, cow, sheep) digest grass.

The chemical structure of these Fats is slightly different from Industrial Trans Fats. In our diet, these Trans Fats have been present since time immemorial, since the time when humanity began consuming meat and dairy products.

For example, in milk, 2-4% of the total fat comes from natural TF, and in lamb meat — it’s 4-7%.

The most famous and beneficial Natural Trans Fat is Conjugated Linoleic Acid, which people even consume additionally in the form of supplements. This acid, as has already been proven, reduces the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases and has other numerous beneficial properties.

Artificial, industrial hydrogenated oils or Trans Fats

They do not occur naturally in nature, but are created by introducing hydrogen atoms into the molecules of vegetable oils. This changes the chemical structure of the oils and turns them from liquid into solid.

The process itself, like the process of obtaining vegetable oils, is far from natural.

Oils are hydrogenated in order to extend the “life” of the product and make its cost cheaper. Companies care little about our health when big money is at stake.

Why Are Artificial Trans Fats Harmful?

Hydrogenated oils have a toxic effect on our body as a whole, affecting every organ and every cell. And if, for example, many may not agree regarding the harmfulness of vegetable oils, then everyone talks about the harmful properties of artificial TF.

Increase the risk of cardiovascular system disease
Damage blood vessels from the inside
They increase “bad” LDL cholesterol while decreasing the amount of “good” HDL cholesterol
They increase the number of inflammatory particles in our body, which leads to chronic inflammation and disease
They increase the risk of developing diabetes by 40%
They suppress the protective immune function of our body
They lead to excess weight and obesityYour discount

Where Are Trans Fats Found?

Natural Trans Fats that benefit our body can be found in the meat of ruminant animals and in dairy products (milk, yogurt, kefir, butter, cheese, cottage cheese, etc).

Harmful Trans Fats can be found much more often. Since hydrogenated oils are much cheaper than butter, they can be found in many products. These are semi-prepared foods, chips, all kinds of baked goods and even bread, microwave popcorn, french fries and most products fried in vegetable oils.

Margarine is pure industrial Trans Fat; there is no fat more harmful than it. Please, do not buy margarine and do not cook with it!

Vegetable oils also often contain artificial Trans Fats. For example, sunflower oil contains about 1-4% of them of the total fat composition.

I always tell everyone that one needs to pay attention to the composition of products and must read the ingredients list. But with Trans Fats this does not always work, since the amount of fat is most often indicated either per serving or per 100 g.

In America, for example, if it is less than 0.5 g of Trans Fat, it may not be listed. But who eats half a bun? Or a tiny little piece of store-bought pie? And how many Trans Fats are contained in a whole bun or in a large piece of pie?

So always in the ingredients list look for the words “hydrogenated” or “partially hydrogenated” fat or “stearate” — all of this means that the product contains artificial TF.

As always, I strongly recommend giving up vegetable oils in favor of coconut oil, butter, ghee or animal fats. These fats are Saturated in their structure and do not form artificial Trans Fats.

Avoid buying products where oil is used (it is often replaced with margarine), do not consume semi-prepared foods and fast food (french fries contain 40-50% artificial TF).

Trans Fats, it turns out, also come in different kinds.

And as we are once again proven, that which comes from nature and is found in it naturally, like naturally occurring Trans Fats — is beneficial to our body, unlike the creation of man — artificial, hydrogenated fats, which are dangerous to our health and which should be avoided like fire.

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