While growing up my mom always had a bucket of Crisco in the fridge or wherever she stored it.
While growing up my mom always had a bucket of Crisco in the fridge or wherever she stored it. I think it was the fridge. She also had a jar of "saved" animal fats left over from bacon, sausage and other meaty cookings. We also ate, what I later learned, was margarine. In fact, it wasn't until I moved in with my current roommate (more on that in another post later) that I learned what I'd grown up eating and then bought as an adult wasn't as healthy for me as good old-fashioned butter.
I don't blame my mom, she was a product of her time and her mother's teachings. Nor do I blame the AHA or any other organization. In the past, some of the tests that verified the healthiness of a product weren't as efficient or quick as they are now. But, I'm glad we're now seeing a resurgence of good information.
But the story was not yet done. By the 1990s, these trans fats that the AHA and the CSPI told us were supposed to be so healthy for us were implicated as major risk factors for heart disease. New studies now indicated that trans-fats just about doubled the risk of heart disease for every 2% increase in trans-fat calories. By some estimates, trans-fats were responsible for 100,000 deaths. The very ‘heart-healthy’ foods the AHA recommended we eat were actually giving us heart attacks. The irony. The irony. By November 2013, the US Food and Drug Administration removed partially hydrogenated oils from the list of human foods ‘Generally Recognized as Safe’. Yes, the AHA had been telling us to eat poison for decades.
Originally shared by Terris Linenbach
Holy shit - literally
https://medium.com/@drjasonfung/the-shocking-origin-of-vegetable-oil-garbage-1c2ce14ae513?source=userActivityShare-6394df63e4c0-1535843497
I don't blame my mom, she was a product of her time and her mother's teachings. Nor do I blame the AHA or any other organization. In the past, some of the tests that verified the healthiness of a product weren't as efficient or quick as they are now. But, I'm glad we're now seeing a resurgence of good information.
But the story was not yet done. By the 1990s, these trans fats that the AHA and the CSPI told us were supposed to be so healthy for us were implicated as major risk factors for heart disease. New studies now indicated that trans-fats just about doubled the risk of heart disease for every 2% increase in trans-fat calories. By some estimates, trans-fats were responsible for 100,000 deaths. The very ‘heart-healthy’ foods the AHA recommended we eat were actually giving us heart attacks. The irony. The irony. By November 2013, the US Food and Drug Administration removed partially hydrogenated oils from the list of human foods ‘Generally Recognized as Safe’. Yes, the AHA had been telling us to eat poison for decades.
Originally shared by Terris Linenbach
Holy shit - literally
https://medium.com/@drjasonfung/the-shocking-origin-of-vegetable-oil-garbage-1c2ce14ae513?source=userActivityShare-6394df63e4c0-1535843497
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