Cleaners and our healthWritten by Axel Rodriguez
Many people use strong cleaners or acid cleaners to make house clean and to get hard to clean stains out, but people don't realize that many cleaners are bad for our health they contain ingredient that irritate skin and fumes that those cleaner produce are dangerous if we inhale them.Many people suffer from asthma and other respiratory problems and using those type of cleaners in a place not well ventilated can be harmful for health. A good way to help is using gloves and a mask of some sort to clean but in my opinion that's too much hazel for me, an alternative that is good way to clean house and safe for family and none toxic are natural cleaners.
| | The Sneak Attack of Trans- FatsWritten by Meri Raffetto RD
If you are like most people, you are probably confused about trans fats. What are they? Which foods have them? What is health risk?The truth is, trans fats are everywhere. They are lurking on shelves in almost every aisle of our grocery stores. Just when you think that bag of microwave popcorn was a healthy choice for a snack... it might not be. Not because of popcorn itself but because of what has been added to it. So what are they? Trans fats are result of a process called hydrogenation where they take relatively healthy oil and turn it into a solid form to help prolong shelf life and freshness of product. When these fats become solid, our bodies treat them more like saturated fats. Evidence shows that consumption of both saturated fat and trans fat can increase our LDL (“bad”) cholesterol that increases risk of coronary artery disease. There is also some evidence to support that trans fats may actually decrease our HDL (“good”) cholesterol. Nearly 13 million Americans suffer from coronary artery disease and more than 500,000 die each year from causes related to coronary artery disease. Heart Disease is number one cause of death for both men and women in United States. Unfortunately, trans fats have been a “hidden” fat for years. They are very popular in fast food chains because they are inexpensive to produce, easy to use, and they don’t spatter. The reality is… it is in everything from crackers to breads to cereals and therefore, people who thought they were making good food choices may have been adding more fat to their diet than they anticipated. Here are some samples of surprise attack of trans fats: 1.Spreads. Margarine and shortening are loaded with trans fats. Stick margarine has 2.8 grams of trans fat per tablespoon Shortening has 4.2 grams of trans fat per tablespoon Tip: look for soft tub margarines that say “no trans fats” on container
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