How many cows and chicken will you eat this year?

Nothing taste as good as vibrant and healthy feels! Change your diet, change your life. Remember, it's the start that stops most people.. Imagine how good you'll feel if you start today!

The Cholesterol Myth that Could Be Ruining Your Health!

Hey, it's Marco! A delusion is a false belief held with conviction despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary. In the medical field no delusion has had wider acceptance and a longer run than the belief that cholesterol levels in the blood are a major factor in the causation of atherosclerosis and its two chief complications - heart attack and stroke.
     Known as the Lipid Hypothesis or Cholesterol Theory, the seeds of this delusion were sown in the late 19th century by a German pathologist named Rudolph Virchow. He performed chemical analyses on arterial plaques taken from corpses and discovered that they contained large amounts of cholesterol. He theorized that cholesterol from the blood infiltrated the walls of the arteries and thus caused the plaques he found there. He called this process lipid insudation.
Further credence was given to this theory when researchers in the early 1900s fed rabbits and chickens a pure cholesterol diet and reported deposits on the arterial walls that they thought were atherosclerotic plaques.
     At this point it was thought that all the cholesterol in the blood came from the diet. But in 1925 it was found that the human body produces 80-90% of its own cholesterol and that diet is relatively unimportant. This caused some to raise questions about the validity of the Cholesterol Theory.

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WHAT THE HELL ARE TRANS FATS?

Hey, it's Marco! Today's lesson... Trans fat is the common name for a type of unsaturated fat with trans-isomer fatty acid(s). (Now you know...)
Unsaturated fat is a fat molecule containing one or more double bonds between the carbon atoms. Since the carbons are double-bonded to each other, there are fewer bonds available for hydrogen, so there are fewer hydrogen atoms, hence "unsaturated". Cis and trans are terms that refer to the arrangement of chains of carbon atoms across the double bond. In the cis arrangement, the chains are on the same side of the double bond, resulting in a kinked geometry.
The process of hydrogenation is intended to add hydrogen atoms to cis-unsaturated fats, eliminating a double bond and making them more saturated. These saturated fats have a higher melting point, which makes them attractive for baking and extends their shelf-life. However, the process frequently has a side effect that turns some cis-isomers into trans-unsaturated fats instead of hydrogenating them completely.

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