Monday, October 5, 2009

You Can't Get Slim Arms With Trans Fat In Your Diet

By Katherine Crawford M.S.

Your body needs healthy dietary fat to function properly. However, were you aware that one type of fat is hidden in many foods and causes a high amount of deaths every year? This killer is called trans fat.

How did this beast come to be? Well, it all happened when some chemists discovered a way to extend the shelf life of some vegetable oils through a process called hydrogenation. From this point forward trans fat were born.

Trans fats became the single nutrient responsible for the highest amount of annual deaths in the United States.

Trans fats mess up your cellular machinery so much that getting slim and thin arms is virtually impossible if they're in your diet. I don't care how hard you train.

And here are 4 more reasons to stay away from these Franken fats:

1. The lowest estimate from Harvard predicts 30,000 annual deaths. That is a lot of death from a single nutrient. The U.S. population, and the rest of the world, has never dealt with such a common yet lethal killer.

2. There is no safe level of intake. The food industry would have you believe that 40 calories per day of trans fat will have NO negative impact on your health or arms. Yet Harvard and Stanford research has clearly proven otherwise.

3. They increase internal body fat. Specifically, they do a great job at raising triglycerides-the storage form of fat in the female body. How do you expect to get slim arms when you're raising internal body fat levels???

4. They boost dense LDL particles. Not all bad cholesterol is created equal. Some are worse than others. And dense LDL particles are the worst kind

I hope this article doesn't scare you. You shouldn't be afraid of food! However, I do hope that it educates you and motivates you to stay away from trans fats. It's quite rare for a single nutrient to have such harmful effects on the female body. Usually, a whole range of factors are too blame for excess body fat. Yet trans fat are an exception here. So if you want thin and slim arms, make sure you adopt a zero intake policy!

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