Oh! Those food companies, they are so funny. They always have these tricks up their sleeves, folks. Now let me tell you guys about the trans fat. Everybody should know by now that trans fats are bad for you. The safe limit on trans fat is zero. They give you heart disease. If you actually look at a trans fat underneath the microscope, it looks more like plastic, it looks like an actual fat. Alright, it's something that you don't want to eat, but here is the trick.
Now you can go to stores and go to the supermarket and you will see a product and on the front of the product, there is like a big ass letters, it says trans fat free or it says, no trans fat. So you are like, oh! These are some healthy chips or these are some healthy crackers, they are some healthy cookies. Then you flip it over just to confirm that what you see there is true and you look on the nutrition facts and you look at fats, it says saturated fat, then you go trans fats and it says trans fat, zero grams of fat.
You are like, yeah, and so most people will take that and they will walk out of the door with it. You have got to take that product and you have got to flip it over and you have to look at their ingredients. Now what you want to look for is partially hydrogenated some type of oil. Now it can be a cottonseed oil, and cottonseed is not even a fruit. Now it can be soybean oil, soy is not a healthy food products or it can be canola oil, canola oil is like tremendously genetically remodified. You don't want to eat it.
Now the thing is that a partially hydrogenated oil is a trans fat. So on the label, on the cover it says, trans fat free and then on the nutrition facts, it says zero grams of trans fat and then you go to the ingredients you have got partially hydrogenated oils. Well, if those are trans fat then why aren't they listed on the front or on the nutrition facts.
There is a USBA loophole that says that if there is less than half a gram of trans fat in that product per serving, they don't have to list it on the label and they can still call it trans fat free. Now remember that the safe limit of trans fat is zero. So what these food companies did was before the law went into effect in January 2006, they changed the serving sizes. So now instead of 20 chips being a serving size, now it's 10. So in that bag of chips or whatever you still have the same number of trans fats that you had before, but they have changed the serving and now they can say that there is none in there. That's the deception.
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