Your body needs healthy dietary fat to function properly. However, were you aware that one type of fat is hidden in many foods and causes a high amount of deaths every year? This killer is called trans fat.
How did this beast come to be? Well, it all happened when some chemists discovered a way to extend the shelf life of some vegetable oils through a process called hydrogenation. From this point forward trans fat were born.
Trans fats became the single nutrient responsible for the highest amount of annual deaths in the United States.
The bottom line is that trans fatty acids alter your metabolic process so much that obtaining slim arms becomes a pipe dream. It really doesn’t matter how hard you train, except if you’re an Olympic athlete.
And here are 4 more reasons to stay away from these Franken fats:
1. They are responsible for tens of thousands of deaths every year. How many? According to the most conservative estimates from Harvard University, about 30,000. Think about that for a minute. A single nutrient is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths every single year. Mind boggling.
2. There is no safe level of intake. The food industry would have you believe that 40 calories per day of trans fat will have NO negative impact on your health or arms. Yet Harvard and Stanford research has clearly proven otherwise.
3. They raise triglycerides within your blood. Triglycerides are your body’s storage form of fat. When you eat fat it gets broken down and then reassembled into triglyceride form. So trans fats will definitely hinder your slim arm mission!
4. They raise the worst type of cholesterol. What’s the worst type? Dense LDL particles. In other words, they clog up your arteries which is not good for your heart and they reduce circulation which is not good for getting thin arms.
I hope this article doesn’t scare you. You shouldn’t be afraid of food! However, I do hope that it educates you and motivates you to stay away from trans fats. It’s quite rare for a single nutrient to have such harmful effects on the female body. Usually, a whole range of factors are too blame for excess body fat. Yet trans fat are an exception here. So if you want thin and slim arms, make sure you adopt a zero intake policy!
