Why Are Trans Fats Bad? Very Bad! - Dr Ekberg

Why are trans fats bad coming right up.

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So did a couple of videos on what trans

fats are and how to read labels to avoid

them but here we're gonna talk about

what do they really do what are the side

effects what do they cause so that you

understand how important it is to avoid

these things so first of all how are

they made well it's a very unnatural

process they start with a liquid oil

that has already been processed from soy

beans or safflower or canola or

something to make it liquid and

tasteless and odorless but then they add

high pressure they add high temperature

and these are very very high pressures

and temperatures and we know high

temperatures destroy oils then they

inject hydrogen gas in the presence of a

metal catalyst such as nickel and

working with Nutrition Response Testing

I can't tell you how often people come

in with metal sensitivities and nickel

being one of the top sensitivities that

we see so metal it's not something that

we want to add to our food. Some of the

diseases that are associated that have

been found correlated: cardiovascular

disease heart disease so trans fats they

increase the LDL they decrease the HDL

in the increased triglyceride so all of

the markers these aren't bad in

themselves but they're markers of health

problems and trans fats worsen every one

of them and it worsens all the ratios

all the risk ratios as far as evaluating

cardiovascular risk pregnancy it's been

shown to increase preeclampsia and

gestational diabetes that means the

blood pressure that people that mothers

get during pregnancy and the diabetes

the blood sugar spikes that they get

I've all been associated with trans-fats

the length of the pregnancy they tend to

deliver sooner resulting in more

prematurely born babies and these

trans-fats they compete with the body's

long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids

that's a big name for the fish oil types

of essential fatty acids the EPA and the

DHA that we have in the body so the EPA

is anti-inflammatory the DHA is maybe

the most important building block for

the retina and the central nervous

system so if the baby is developing and

the nervous system is growing at an

incredible rate it has to have a lot of

this DHA and trans fats compete with it

interfering with the proper formation of

the central nervous system and the

retina for vision it's been associated

with diabetes trans fats increase

insulin resistance and thereby type-2

diabetes it's been correlated to

increase allergies and also to breast

cancer and it does this by three

different mechanisms that influence all

of the others combined so there's a lot

of overlap these are not separate

conditions trans fats interfere with the

body in its most fundamental mechanisms

so it alters immune responses

cancer is an immune condition it alters

the cell wall integrity and this is huge

because everything the nervous system

does everything that every cell does

depends on the integrity of that cell

membrane every cell is a is an enclosed

entity that and the membrane decides

what gets to come in and what goes out

so if we compromised that cell wall

integrity now the brain can't signal

properly the cells can't do their job

properly because they can't regulate as

tightly what comes in and what goes out

it alters

the prostaglandin synthesis and balance

of prostaglandins are chemical

messengers that are involved with

regulation of inflammation so

inflammation isn't a bad thing there's

the time to increase and there's the

time to decrease inflammation and the

body knows how to regulate that

but the trans-fats mess with that

ability and that balance and trans-fats

selectively stimulates the

pro-inflammatory prostaglandins and

every degenerative disease that we know

has a low-grade chronic inflammation at

its foundation so why is there so much

controversy about fat okay it's the food

source that has been the most demonized

of any food out there and everyone has

an opinion is it sugar that's bad is it

fat that's bad and the controversy goes

on and on here's what it's all about

in my opinion that everything bad that

we have gotten the idea that fat causes

is because we have been eating man-made

fats since we started making margarine

50 70 80 years ago and they become part

of mainstream and we ate more and more

man-made fats and trans fats we get

sicker and sicker and sicker and we

didn't differentiate between natural

fats and man-made fats we just called it

fats and we created this idea that fats

are bad when in effect it is man-made

fats that are bad and the trans fats is

the icing on the cake in the worst kind

of way everyone today agrees this is as

bad or worse than processed sugar this

is a poison it's a toxin it's up there

with with lead and pesticides and

artificial sweeteners so in 2006 the

government started requiring labeling

and we talked about that in another

video but all they saying is if it has

less than half a gram of trans fats per

serving

and you can make the serving tiny tiny

tiny then you can label that product

zero grams of trans-fat so we have all

these products that have up to 10% trans

fats they're riddled with this nasty

stuff and they still get to put a big

fat zero on the package so even today

even though they have basically try to

ban trans fats every one is the the

processed food industry is always

working to sneak around the rules so

today we still have according to the FDA

95% of cookies have trans fats in them

80% of frozen breakfasts it says

desserts should be breakfasts 75% of

snacks and chips 70% of cake mixes 50%

of cereals

and you know those health foods that you

serve your kids for breakfast the best

way to start your day

50% of those are have trans fats in them

so everyone knows that it's a problem

but what do they do about it so they

turn their hope to science hoping that

science will once more come to the

rescue and what does science do well

they go and try to modify the

hydrogenation process so they're playing

with the the components the pressure and

the temperature and the gas and the

metals to see if they can play with

these variables to create less trans

fats and there's a process called an

esterification where they try to put

together the the way the triglycerides

fit together they try to alter that and

then they try to genetically modify the

they start playing with the genetics of

the soybean oil and the sunflower seeds

to see if they can create an oil that is

already more solid from the beginning

really seriously so you have a

frankenfood that causes death and

destruction and your solution is to make

more

frankenfoods have we learned nothing

nature makes the perfect food we don't

have to mess with it

show me one time where science has

created a new food has altered a food at

the chemical level at the bite at the

molecular level and created a healthier

food has never happened and it is my

opinion that it will never happen

because we're working in the wrong arena

let the scientists make better cars and

smarter cellphones and and better

computers but don't think that they can

mess with biology we we have no

knowledge of biology at that level to

start messing with it if science learns

how to make a living cell show me how to

make a living cell and I'll start paying

attention I'll start giving them some

credit and saying ok maybe you can start

playing now but until that time they

better stay out of it so what you can do

is stop spending your money if you don't

buy it they won't make it ok so what is

the solution what's the real solution by

whole food by natural food by butter

grass-fed butter by coconut oil by

extra-virgin olive oil

stick with the things that Mother Nature

has already produced for us and you'll

be in good hands so learn how to select

the good foods if it says partially

hydrogenated or hydrogenated it has

trans fats no matter how big the zero is

on the front of the box learn this stuff

and teach it to others so you can save

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