The evilness of Trans Fat..... Eww.... So, I first heard about the different types of fat on the Oprah show, when she had Dr. Oz on as a guest... You remember that show, where he brought the bags of fat on stage? yeah, so since then, we've wanted to start eating healthy, just to eat healthy, plus because high cholesterol and diabetes run in my family. I know to some it seems early to start worrying about it, but I think once you have a kid, then all of a sudden you want to live as long as possible, well, that's how I felt anyway. So, Dr. Oz made sense... but the show went by too fast to let the details really sink in. So, I've been reading up on some healthy diets and food, etc.

Turns out, Trans fat is a fat that was invented not long ago, by taking oil and fusing it with Hydrogen then heating it up so much that it will never go back to liquid form. And since it's invented by man and not by nature, our bodies have no idea what to do with it. We can't digest it, we can't break it down... it goes straight to clot our arteries. Needless to say, I was a little disgusted with this, and immediately went to the fridge to check all the foods. The worse thing I found in the freezer were my Banquet chicken nuggets. The book I'm reading now says that it's not even being enforced for food companies to put the Trans fat content on the bag. (And they've been fighting having to put it on the labels, because it's THAT bad for you, and they don't want you to know.) Well, this bag didn't list the trans fat... big surprise. The author said to take the total grams of fat and subtract whatever fats they do list... whatever's left... is... guess... yep. Trans fat. So, after subtraction, for a 5 piece serving, there was 14 grams of trans fat in those chicken nuggets. Disgusting! And that's what I had been feeding Carlee for lunch once in a while. Can you believe that?!? No wonder we're so unhealthy today. That stuff is in the whole cookie and chip isle! And they cook with it in our restaraunts! American restaraunts anyway, Italians use olive oil.

So, we as a family are eating healthy. No more premade foods.... whole grain everything... no more vegetable oil, only olive oil, and some other points from the book. We're really excited. We couldn't believe how much stuff the food companies put in our food. Oh, and they hide it... it's hydrogenated oil (any oil, and partially can be in there too). If that's high on the ingredient list, then the food has trans fat whether or not they list it. It's really disturbing to think that the companies don't care what they're feeding us, that they're killing people slowly, as long as they make the profit. I wonder if they eat they're own food....  ¶ 3:30 AM