Reader’s Write: FDA ban on trans fats a boost to our health

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The FDA has or is in the process of banning trans fats and related items such as margarine. They will no longer be allowed in our food.

One website sums it up that the human kidney does not recognize this molecule and cannot excrete it. Once we have it in our system we are stuck with it (pun acknowleged). It adheres to the artery walls and literally plugs them. 

We would not consider consuming arsenic which the body also cannot get rid of. It is like an unrelenting, unwanted amorous pursuer that says “I’m stuck on you.” These items are such that they can check in but they can’t check out.

This substance has been consumed over a long period of time and many have died from it. There are many things grandma used to make that were good but were unknowingly not good healthwise.

Things with metabolism begin to decay (rot) the moment they die. As is said of steak, it is aged. It is then rotten enough to be fly’s and maggot’s heaven. 

By the time it is passing through the alimentary canal, it is releasing toxic and corrosive substances. Many deadly problems result from that. 

Those with clogged arteries can sing their song: We’ll stick together no matter what the weather.” 

Those with high blood pressure can have their ‘pop’ tunes. Others can sing “Colon Corrosion.” The melody with “Down the “Down the Mississippi to the Gulf Of Mexico” could be used to sing “down the sluggish colon to the gulf of hemorrhoids.” 

If a person really wants to eat to live and not Live to eat they can do very well with food only from the plant world. 

After a time all kinds of problems will disappear as if they never existed. The body has to become really clean; no pockets of crud anywhere. 

I theorize that viruses and bacteria cannot attack healthy tissue but can thrive on slime. 

Who then needs as much as a flu shot. Unfortunately, the medical profession, pharmacies, pharmacutical manufacturers and insurance khumpknees won’t like someone who never sees a doctor, buys anything from a pharmacy or over the counter and has no health insurance. 

They see them as bad for business. After all, that is what it is all about: money, money, money. Lots of it! All of it! Many mouths to feed there.

While I think of it, the only alternative to affordable health care is unaffordable healthcare and who wants that? With proper living, health care is inexpensive.

The physical existence is one of consequences from which one may learn. Do the right things or pay the consequences. 

Our having free will plays a role here. If one jumps off a cliff that is there business. One is not allowed to jump off the Empire State Building. Someone has to clean up the mess. 

If one is born with conditions, they can be the results of actions in the past of their own making.

There are those at present making the effort to intelligently care for themselves and others who pig out on anything. The former should not have to subsidize the cost of caring for the latter. 

There is no incentive in that for the latter to straighten themselves out. We are not all in this together.

Mr. Penner in the Williston Times, Dec. 6 stated that any prohibition creates a black market. He may be correct. 

Some may want their trans fats no matter what. At least the general public won’t unknowingly be consuming this harmful substance. It is not to say it will make the medical profession happy: Bad for business.

There is another perspective on this entire subject but to come later.

Charles Samek

Mineola

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