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Old Tue, Jun-03-03, 05:15
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It doesn't bother me at all (low carbing) .I would rather eat this way now. My mother in law had a store bought pie ,last night , and all I could think about was the transfats in it. I remembered hearing on the news a few weeks ago about a group sueing Kraft because Oreos had trans fats (hydrdogenated oil) in them and I looked it up on the internet . They dropped their lawsuit once they knew word got out . It wasn't their intention to get money ,just to get it into the media . I really never knew how bad they were and when you look at the packages it's in everything.. I could only find one bread without it and one peanut butter.Its in margarine,shake and bake , Everything... It raises your bad cholesterol and lowers your good( promoting heart disease) . http://blueprint.bluecrossmn.com/topic/transfats Wasn't margarine made because butter was bad for cholesterol. Then there are all kinds of other food additives that I would rather stay away from ,I dont want to give my kids any of these. This is a link to a list of food additives to avoid and why.......http://www.cspinet.org/reports/food.htm Potassium bromate was another ,its a dough conditioner and it was very hard to find a bread or dough without it .It is banned in every country ,but the U.S. and Japan. The only one I found that had neither potassium bromate or trans fat was one kind of Pepperidge Farm bread. So, to me it makes me sick thinking about eating that stuff. My DH even said he is thinking twice about eating these chemicals and he is more aware now of what he will eat. Sorry for the long one... Cindy
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