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About a year ago, I saw a TV programme about food called 'Supermarket Secrets' which mentioned that trans fats, found in hydrogenated vegetable oil, are unhealthy. I stopped eating all foods which contain hydrogenated vegetable oil. This proved to be very difficult, because at the time almost all bakery products contained it, along with a very large number of prepared foods and cooking ingredients. I realised I had been eating quite a lot of these foods.
I have also been eating more oily fish. This isn't too difficult because I like all kinds of fish!
The improvement in my health has been incredible. I used to suffer very badly from heartburn and acid indigestion, and no medication had been successful. It has almost disappeared now. I still have to avoid eating too late in the evening to avoid getting heartburn at night, but as long as I do this I hardly ever get heartburn or indigestion of any kind.
I also used to have terrible period pains which lasted for days. Now this has improved greatly.
I used to have joint pains, mostly in my hands and ankles, and I was worried about going to college, because there is a lot of walking and manual work involved. I haven't had any joint pains, though I am now doing more walking, including uphill, than I have ever done before. The hand pain has also disappeared.
I get much less colds and flu, even when other people around me have colds. Before, I used to get an unbelievable number of colds and flu, one after another, in the autumn, winter and spring. If anyone around me had a cold, I knew that I would definitely catch it very badly, and that I would probably get secondary infections and feel ill for at least a week. This year has been the best in all my life. I don't think I have ever felt this well.
I have not changed my diet or lifestyle in any other way. I have never eaten large quantities of fried food or fast food. I am not eating less of other fats such as butter or meat, and I am eating the same amount of foods such as wheat and dairy products, so the only things that have changed are the decrease in hydrogenated fat and the increase in oily fish.
Lucia
About a year ago, I saw a TV programme about food called 'Supermarket Secrets' which mentioned that trans fats, found in hydrogenated vegetable oil, are unhealthy. I stopped eating all foods which contain hydrogenated vegetable oil. This proved to be very difficult, because at the time almost all bakery products contained it, along with a very large number of prepared foods and cooking ingredients. I realised I had been eating quite a lot of these foods.
I have also been eating more oily fish. This isn't too difficult because I like all kinds of fish!
The improvement in my health has been incredible. I used to suffer very badly from heartburn and acid indigestion, and no medication had been successful. It has almost disappeared now. I still have to avoid eating too late in the evening to avoid getting heartburn at night, but as long as I do this I hardly ever get heartburn or indigestion of any kind.
I also used to have terrible period pains which lasted for days. Now this has improved greatly.
I used to have joint pains, mostly in my hands and ankles, and I was worried about going to college, because there is a lot of walking and manual work involved. I haven't had any joint pains, though I am now doing more walking, including uphill, than I have ever done before. The hand pain has also disappeared.
I get much less colds and flu, even when other people around me have colds. Before, I used to get an unbelievable number of colds and flu, one after another, in the autumn, winter and spring. If anyone around me had a cold, I knew that I would definitely catch it very badly, and that I would probably get secondary infections and feel ill for at least a week. This year has been the best in all my life. I don't think I have ever felt this well.
I have not changed my diet or lifestyle in any other way. I have never eaten large quantities of fried food or fast food. I am not eating less of other fats such as butter or meat, and I am eating the same amount of foods such as wheat and dairy products, so the only things that have changed are the decrease in hydrogenated fat and the increase in oily fish.
Lucia
