French fries have got a bad reputation and for good reason. French fries
are not exactly the most healthy food and you all know that eating too much of
anything is not a good thing. Read more here about why you and your family
especially your kids should not eat french fries. Check on for the hard truth.
French fries contain bad fats:
Frying up your food is sure tasty, but bad fat or saturated fat is what
turns a potato into a time bomb for cancer, heart disease and diabetes. Not all
fats are bad and more people are learning that fats come in the categories of
the bad fats and good ones. While good fats such as vegetable oils including
olive oil and sunflower are actually having some protective effects on your
health, the bad fats or saturated fats are directly linked to the clogging of
your arteries, it is the bad fats that cause far greater damage. Damage done by
saturated fat is found in margarines, vegetable shortening and everything that
is partially hydrogenated. Bad fats have been shown to raise levels of bad
cholesterol or low density lipoprotein. Saturated fats also stay in your body
longer and raise circulating blood triglycerides that lower the good
cholesterol or high density lipoprotein. When you consume these bad fats they
make the platelets in your blood streams. These sticky little platelets then
form clots that connect to the walls of arteries which supply vital areas of
your body with oxygen and nutrition. These little clots create a wall of plaque
which will eventually lead to heart attack or a stroke.
French fries are made of the worst carbohydrates:
No potato in its natural
state is bad for you, but rather you make it bad because of how you eat it or
when you decide to have it. Potatoes are starch and they are made up of simple
carbohydrates. Most conventional French fries are prepared with white potatoes
and white potatoes have been proven to more easily convert in the body to
sugar. When your body takes in these quickly absorbing carbohydrates you are
forced to use them as energy right away or store them in fat. Unless you are
headed to the gym after you eat or consume them after exercise, you are more
likely to gain weight from these kinds of potatoes. When you continually eat
quickly absorbing carbohydrates, the high conversion of sugar causes an
increase of insulin production. When you continually spike your insulin, you
develop a resistance to insulin that has been linked to a higher risk of heart
disease and diabetes. Sadly, your kids are not an exception to the process.
Some will say that children need lots of carbohydrates and many nutritional
experts push whole grains, but the reality is that healthy grains are becoming
more and more difficult to find. In theory, raising the whole grains in your
children’s diets is a smart suggestion. Whole grains are more difficult to
convert to energy, producing a steadier and slower supply of carbohydrates for
the body. Choosing the right grains is important and many companies have found
ways of turning a good thing into something more profitable. Huge profits are
made on things that are tastier and have long shelf life.
French fries contain trans fats:
Frying up your food is very
tasty. But do not forget trans fatty acids are what turns a potato into a
ticking time bomb for heart disease, cancer and diabetes. Damaged fats act as
carcinogens in your body. French fries have high levels of acrylamide, claimed
to be a possible cancer causing substance. While there are not yet any
conclusive results in children that show a link has been established to
consuming French fries and cancer, it has been suggested that cancer in
children is on the rise in ages 3-5 years old. It makes sense to keep the
French fries out of the hands of your children until more is known.
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