Trans Fats or Hydrogenated Oil

Just to recap: good fat is fish, animal and seed oils. Bad fat is hydrogenated fat (or trans fats or mono and diglycerides of fatty acids) which is in low fat spreads and margarines as well as cakes, biscuits, pies and some breads – read the labels.
Animal fat in small proportions is OK as long as you are eating plenty of meat, vegetables, fruit, fish and drinking plain water. In fact the body needs animal fat and gristle to keep the joints healthy as in the fats from fish and muscles.

Dark Chocolate

It was such good news when I heard that chocolate is good for you. But I did reason that it is the cocoa powder that is good for you rather than the chocolate sweets and bars that are produced. Because these contain sugar and some undesirable additives in some cases. Most chocolate sweets have an […]