The harm of trans fat

Added: (Tue Nov 29 2011)

Pressbox (Press Release) - Almost all fried foods contain trans fats, such as biscuits, cake, donuts, salad dressing, etc. Trans fats are the food processing industry are currently widely added to foods. Because trans fats added to foods, it will increase the taste, so that food becomes more crisp taste. Baby food-dairy creamer, pearl milk tea in both trans fat, also known as hydrogenated vegetable oil.
Trans fat is how to generate it?
Under high pressure hydrogenation of soybean oil hydrogenated, soybean oil molecule of unsaturated fatty acids into saturated fat, so the flow of soybean oil could have become a semi-solid hydrogenated soybean oil is not flowing. This technology was originally invented by the United States. Hydrogenation of soybean oil hydrogenation, resulting in a trans-fat.
Modern research shows that trans fats on cardiovascular disease, diabetes and fetal growth and development, etc. will have a negative impact. Such as cardiovascular disease: molecular structure and the general as cis fats different from the nature of trans fats has changed. Many people know that unsaturated fat safflower oil, corn oil, cottonseed oil can reduce the body's blood cholesterol levels, but when they are hydrogenated to trans fat, the effect on the contrary, trans fats can increase LDL (low-density lipoprotein cholesterol) while lowering HDL (high density lipoprotein cholesterol). The research found that, LDL is caused by high blood pressure, atherosclerosis and other cardiovascular disease is the culprit. In addition, will also lead to obesity: always eat potato chips, cream and fried foods are more likely to gain weight. This is because trans fats are not easily digested, easily accumulate in the abdomen. Even more frightening is that trans fat may affect human fertility: In addition, the growth and development of infants and young children and growing teenagers also have an adverse impact on the fetus through the placenta, newborn babies through breast milk can be absorbed trans fats, which affect the absorption of essential fats. Trans fat on young people's growth and development of the central nervous system adverse effects, inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis. Also reduce male hormone secretion, have a negative impact on sperm, the sperm in the body of the interrupt generation. In addition, also found that excessive intake of trans fats will reduce the memory: youth and if the excessive intake of trans fat, old age and suffering from a greater proportion of dementia. This is caused by trans fats, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels decline. The high-density lipoprotein cholesterol can prevent heart disease and other cardiovascular diseases.
Trans fat is a risk to human factors can not be ignored, therefore, usually rich in hydrogenated oils should be reduced foods (such as those containing a large number of man-made butter cream cake, butter cookies, and Western fast food - French fries, fried chicken, etc.) of intake. Many countries have begun the production of low levels or no trans fat products.
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