The funny part about trans fats is that they themselves were pushed as "healthy" alternatives to animal fats.
Meanwhile, what were trans fats replaced by? "Healthy" palm oil, for the most part, another oil that goes through an incredible industrial chemical process that yields an inflammatory food. Womp womp.
I have a mason jar of bacon grease in my fridge. You cannot convince me that it's bad for me to cook with that stuff when the alternatives require an industrial processing factory to create.
There was a literal pandemic of heart attacks killing men in Norway for most of the 20th century. Almost every uncle my dad had dies by 50.
The only two times it fell off was during the war, when particularly marine derived fats for margarine was unavailable, and after they stopped using it.
And it was all because they told people butter and natural fats was bad, and used massive amounts of other types of fats instead.
The funny part about trans fats is that they themselves were pushed as "healthy" alternatives to animal fats.
Meanwhile, what were trans fats replaced by? "Healthy" palm oil, for the most part, another oil that goes through an incredible industrial chemical process that yields an inflammatory food. Womp womp.
Reject modernity, return to lard.
The "don't eat butter, eat this toxic hydrogenated margarine instead" days.
"Experts" agreed margarine was "better". Better at clogging your arteries shut, maby.
I have a mason jar of bacon grease in my fridge. You cannot convince me that it's bad for me to cook with that stuff when the alternatives require an industrial processing factory to create.
There was a literal pandemic of heart attacks killing men in Norway for most of the 20th century. Almost every uncle my dad had dies by 50.
The only two times it fell off was during the war, when particularly marine derived fats for margarine was unavailable, and after they stopped using it.
And it was all because they told people butter and natural fats was bad, and used massive amounts of other types of fats instead.