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I looked at my box of Ritz sandwich crackers, and noticed that, yup, there's hydrogenated oils in there.

But how bad are they, I wondered? Well, I asked Google, and the answer was, pretty bad. Drat, and I'd just bought a new jar of peanut butter.

Has anyone here cut out a significant portion of hydrogenated oils from their diets, and noticed any short-term health benefit at all? Or would my reward be living to the age of 90 instead of 80?

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I try to avoid hydrogenated oils. In fact, you may not know that your PEANUT BUTTER has 'em, too. Because the evil peanut butter companies take the peanut oil out of your peanut butter, and they sell it (for more than they'd get for it if it were in the peanut butter), and replace it with hydrogenated soybean oil or something like that.

Same with chocolate. They take the cocoa butter out, sell it to pharmaceutical companies, and replace it with EVIL HYDROGENATED OIL.

As for the health benefits...well, it's probably not going to make you FEEL any different, at least not at your age. But it may lower the level of fats in your blood, or lower your risk of getting heart disease later in life, when you get old. LIKE ME.

yes, I mentioned the peanut butter...

(Is the natural peanut butter any good, and how do you mix it without two tablespoons of it sticking to the spoon?)

I prefer the 'natural' peanut butter to the fakety fake stuff. Teddie is the brand I get, when I can't get to the wholefoods store (where they have the peanut grinder -- a big VAT of peanuts, and another of *honey roasted peanuts*, you just flip the switch, and it poops out peanut butter).

And, use a knife. :-)

thank you for posting that link.

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Hmm. Are hydrogenated oils really that new, then?

They haven't been around more than fifty years or so. (Note...there are a lot of ZEALOUS folks who will say that hydrogenation is WORSE THAN HITLER. But really it's only AS BAD AS HITLER.)

I'll read that later...

...but the obesity epidemic, as far as the mass media tells us, started in the 90's. if they're 50 years old, we'd have had that problem in the 50's or 60's, right?

not necessarily-food portions have increased dramatically in the past decade or so...back in the fifties and sixties, portions were still kinda small, and we weren't so high tech then that we could get away with exercising as little as we do today...:)

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