Seriously, I’d like to know how much longer the American food supply is going to be infested with hydrogenated oils. I’d also like to know why our government allows for product labels to claim “No trans fats!” when the ingredient information on the back of the package tells a different story in the form of hydrogenated cottonseed, soybean and palm oils. Denmark has banned the use of hydrogenated oils to a very large degree, California followed suit along with New York and parts of Maryland, but what about America as a whole?

Food is supposed to sustain and enhance human life, not slowly destroy it. Hydrogenated oils clog heart arteries. It’s common knowledge, yet people continue to buy it and eat it every day. Hydrogenated oils are essential fatty acids that have been altered using metals like Aluminum, Cobalt and Nickel. The molecular chain of altered fatty acids puts hydrogen atoms at opposite ends of the double bond. We all have some idea that the term “trans” fat has to do with the hydrogen atoms going across the fatty acid molecule to the other side, but the bottom line is this, if something is that difficult to explain, it can’t possibly be right to put it into your body.

Good luck at the grocery store hunting down the foods that don’t belong on a Petri dish. Healthy eating should be made easier for people and a crash course in molecular alterations belongs in a science book, not the human body.

Longer shelf life is sustained for the foods that contain trans fats, which is the reason you see it in so many of the processed snack foods people eat and develop a craving for. When these cravings are regularly satisfied starting from childhood, the long- term results are often obesity, heart disease and diabetes. It is said that America’s children are fatter than ever.  If that’s true, do we really need to ensure longer shelf life for cheap snack foods that in turn only exacerbate the habits of overeating?

It’s time we really start putting our children's best interests first.

Let’s start with getting hydrogenated oils off the menu at school. And how about those school vending machines stocked with snacks containing oodles of trans fats? How are these snacks helping students throughout day? I’m pretty sure they’re not contributing to brain cell development in a completely positive way.

Stop bringing home bakery cakes frosted with hydrogenated oils. Read labels, get informed, and refuse to feed your family the very foods that are slowly dismantling the health of vital human organs.

Since it always comes down to making a buck, if we stop buying the foods containing trans fats, the food-manufacturing giants will have to sell foods consumers are willing purchase.

No science behind that concept--just pure, unaltered common sense.