Ban on Trans Fats

Are you pandering to the whim of soulless corporations who want your money and don’t care about your health? No? Well, let me put it another way. Do you enjoy putting on weight and watching your health get worse every year, while the companies who sold you the adulterated food that is doing this to you, laugh all the way to the bank? Because that is what is happening. Most of us are aware that our food is being interfered with. We may believe that this is being done for our convenience, but...Read Full Story

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by Mike Geary, Certified Personal Trainer, Certified Nutrition SpecialistAs some of you have seen me mention before, more and more evidence is mounting every day from scientists and researchers revealing that the artificial trans fats that are loaded into your food supply in huge quantities are one of the WORST things that you can put into your body. I call them the "evil trannies".Trans fats have even been compared to cigarettes as being just as bad, if not worse, for your health. Unless you...Read Full Story

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pregnant women who down trans fats from snack foods, fast food and other less-than-ideal fare may give birth to bigger babies, a new study suggests.The study, of nearly 1,400 pregnant women, found that the higher a woman's intake of trans fats during the second trimester, the larger her newborn.Exactly what the findings mean is uncertain. For one, they don't prove that trans fats, per se, boost fetal growth. And if they do, it's not clear how harmful that could be...Read Full Story

Artificial trans fats are one of the most prevalent poisons in our food supply;  but most don't know that healthy natural trans fats DO exist. by Mike Geary, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Certified Personal TrainerI'm going to talk about something today that most of you have probably never heard... that there is a distinction between good trans fats and bad trans fats. There is some evidence that the good trans fats can help you with fat loss, muscle building, and even cancer prevention...Read Full Story

by Mike Geary, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Certified Personal Trainer  I was out recently with some friends and we stopped at a fast food joint. I hate fast food joints, but sometimes everybody else wants to go there, so you just have to make the best of it and find something at least somewhat healthy. If you're forced to eat fast-food, here's a tip to make sure that you're not doing much damage to your body...ALWAYS AVOID the soda and anything deep fried including french fries, hash...Read Full Story

That finding, published in the May 27 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, effectively disproves speculation that food manufacturers would merely replace partially hydrogenated oils -- the source of artificial trans fat -- with saturated fat from butter, lard, or palm oil. And, it means that getting rid of artificial trans fat usually resulted in foods that are healthier for hearts, according to the researchers. In the largest survey of its kind ever done in the United States...Read Full Story

I got invited to a party recently and ended up talking to a fellow hardgainer who was struggling to gain weight. He described his training routine and weight gain diet to me and asked if i could offer some suggestions for improvement. We had a long discussion, but for the purpose of this post, I just want to share what I shared with him about having a healthy weight gain diet. I think it is fairly common for many hardgainers to fall into the trap of unhealthy eating. Because they are “eating...Read Full Story

Hydrogenated Fats or simply known as Trans Fats are fat molecules containing one or more double bonds between the carbon atoms. Since the carbons are double-bonded to each other, there are fewer bonds that are linked to the hydrogen making it fewer hydrogen atoms. This is why unsaturated fats is also an alternative term for trans fats. Trans fats can be monounsaturated and polyunsaturated but never saturated forms of fats. It can be found in many of today processed foods and also present in...Read Full Story

The food industry is 'trying to do the right thing,' researcher says Share What is this? Twitter Digg Facebook More... EMAIL PRINT RSS   WEDNESDAY, May 26 (HealthDay News) -- Fears that removing harmful trans fats from foods would open the door for manufacturers and restaurants to add other harmful fats to foods seem to be unfounded, a new study finds. A team from Harvard School of Public Health analyzed 83 reformulated products from supermarkets and restaurants, and...Read Full Story