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I dont know it all. But I have read that it's not good for health. That it makes food indigestable and changes metabolism and cell structure or something. That it will make you fat and if you eat enough hydrogenated food that it will eventually possibly be the cause of your death. Or possibly one of many causes. Basically, if you can avoid hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated foods you should. I think it is supposedly done to make the food last longer and "look good" on store shelves. It's the whole food as a product to make money versus food as necessary for a long healthy life. Safeway doesnt actually give a damn. They make so much money and only pay people starting at like 8 bucks an hour. I boycot them as much as possible. I have only been in Safeway like 2 times in the last 4 months. FUCK SAFEWAY!!!

Sorry. Just venting. : )

Any form of Hydrogenated fats are toxins, natural animal fats take 18 days for the body to metabolise, hydrogenated fats take 51 days, which means your body uses nearly 3 times the amount of enzymes to eliminate hydrogenated fats from the body. The more enzymes you use the more likely you become deficient in these particular enzymes, once that happens the body rather than metabolizing them begins to store them, thus increasing your chances of diseases, such as heart disease and cancer.

So hydrogenated fats affect not only enzymes and metabolism, they affect hormones as well, hormones are derived from essential fatty acids. list goes on and on. Yes the industrialization of our food chain has absolutely ruined the health of western nations. I believe if was possible to return the food chain to preindustrialized age we would all be alot healthier. I know it's not possible as the drop in food production would starve 1/3 of the world. Which would probably be good for 1/2 the obese population of australia and america.

a couple of good books which really opened my eyes is "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" by Weston A. Price and "The Untold Story of Milk" by Ron Schmid. Makes you realize how adulterated our food really is, it's so shameful that it's all for the dollar and not our health.