On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Anna L. Abrante wrote:

> >  Actually, McDonald's now uses vegetable oil for cooking fries,
> >  and I believe the "milk shakes" are themselves concocted from
> >  soybean oil and various dairy by-products, with various vegetable
> >  thickeners, etc.  My comment had to do with the contribution of
> >  saturated fats to insulin resistance.  I think the meal described
> >  here would in fact be rather low in saturates.
>
> Yes,,and high in trans fatty acids,,which are supposed to be just
> as bad if not worse for us than saturated fats.  Too many omega 6
> oils predispose us to cancer,,and particularly those used in deep
> fat, high temperature, frying....they make food taste good,,but
> the oil is dead weight,,and totally unrecognizable to the human body.

I hope nobody thought I was implying that the McDonald's stuff is
somehow healthy food.  There are all kinds of reasons not to eat
that stuff, but the matter of saturates causing insulin
resistance is not a main one, as far as I can tell.

Todd Moody
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