you generally confuse me. I am trying to find the nugget of truths in your
comments and it seems that no matter what anyone has said you have to
nay-say. I said that you were right and that it is improbable that you could
hydrogenate oils in your kitchen frying pan. I realize that you are the
village rabble rouser and sometimes I think that you may have a point but
then you confuse me. it is probably just me, I am a simple farm girl from
Quebec, we are esily confused.
(and in reference to my inability to spell, yes I think I am hot)

"usual suspect" > wrote in message
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> wrote:
> > he is kinda right.
>
> No, he isn't. His article was about transfats. It wasn't about how oils
> breakdown in heat. His article had nothing to do with what he said about
> heating oil. I was correcting his mistake -- common among vegans and
> other nitwits -- that heating turns common vegetable oils into transfats.
>
> > i have also heard that heating oils too high can produce carcinogens.
>
> Not quite accurate, and overheating oil isn't the only way to cause
> problems. Using rancid oils is just as unhealthy. The primary issue with
> lipids, though, is creating an environment for free radicals. Free
> radicals cause a variety of damage through oxidation, which can lead to
> cancer, heart attacks, etc.
>
> > i don't know if that is true or not.
>
> Like I said, not quite.
>
> > and anyway, the sun is a carcinogen.
>
> Too much sun is a danger, but so is too little. Don't throw the baby out
> with the bathwater. That's one of the dangers vegan activists fall into
> -- that because too much of something is bad, therefore any of it is bad.
>
> > the thing that you need to know about hydrognated oils and fats is that
> > hydrognation changes the molecular structure and our bodies don't like
the
> > new shape and can't sucessfully use them.
>
> That, too, is not quite right. The body is able to use transfats just as
> it uses other fats. The problem with them is that they suppress HDL, the
> good cholesterol, and elevate LDL.
>
> > you don't have to worry about this
> > if you are using cold pressed oils.
>
> Nonsense. Monounsaturated oils lower LDL and elevate HDL. This is
> beneficial in moderating serum cholesterol levels.
>
> > because oils can be extracted using
> > chemicals and alchol which i have read leave traces in the oil.
>
> That's BS. Solvents used for extracting oils (usually hexane) are
> removed by heating the oil. Pseudoscientific ninnies object to that
> heating, but it's within ~100 degrees F of the temperatures reached in
> mechanical (not so cold in reality) pressing.
>
> > just use the
> > good stuff and stay away from anything that you can't tell what it is
and
> > everyone will be O.K.
>
> That's not the best of advice.
>
> > this is also why i am a little leary of splenda which is altered sugar.
>
> Why would that make you leary? I'm sure you eat processed foods of some
> sort. Those are all altered in varying degrees. Everything around you is
> "altered."