Healthy Fats

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FATS & OILS. The truth

Fats & oils are essential to optimal health. They are important building blocks for the cells of our body, they play a big role in balancing our hormones.

Just as with all foods, you must consume high quality fats & oils for your body to effectively use them.

FATS TO AVOID

Many processed foods, even those touted as healthy, are laden with trans-fatty acids (TFA’s) structurally trans-fatty acids are closer to plastic than fat.

TFA consumption has been linked to heart disease & elevating LDL cholesterol levels (the bad cholesterol). This is generally considered to be unhealthy.

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Eggs

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The Media really does cloud us with different ideas as to what is healthy & what is not.  Big food co-operations just have one goal, increasing their bottom line. Cost cutting on the production line at our health’s expensive.! I have touched on the importance of getting your food from the right source in other blogs…locally organically grown meat & Poultry should also be PASTURE FED ! meaning free to roam & eat grass, worm’s & whatever else falls into the animals natural instinct. Alot of the time these days animals are just fed grain’s, corn, Antibiotics/Growth hormone & other things too disgusting to mention with the most important thing for the farmer being his bottom line, these cheaper feeds fatten the animals up a lot quicker but at what expense?

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