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[unbibium]

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?

Comments

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Are hydrogenated oils really that new, then?

[kerri9494.livejournal.com]

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.)

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

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?

[warpedwitch.livejournal.com]

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...:)