Comments on: What You Might Not Know About Your Cookies! (Eat At Your Own Risk)

By: Aga

Aga — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:54:55 +0000

Great subject, great info. I recently wrote the article about fats on my site. People just don’t want to understand how many fats we have. They don’t seem to understand what’s the difference between trans, saturated and monounsaturated fats. And other tendency is accepting everything natural. Half of poisons is comig from natural sources as well. Palm oil is natural but unhealthy. Eating palm oil will make them “naturally fat”. But maybe they deserve it. You have to make educated choices in your life. Thank you for bringing palm oil up as I felt like I’m the only one trying to show it’s bad.

By: Pandalove

Pandalove — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:23:49 +0000

Actually, for those of you who remember, there was a big push for palm oil in the 80’s. That is, until people realized how bad it is for your heart. Now it is making its way back into our food with the claim that it is natural and contains vitamins A and E.
Just because something is “natural” doesn’t make it good for you. And just because they put a new consumer mask on palm oil doesn’t change the damage it does to your body.
Palm oil is by no means good for us or good for the planet.
I suggest both greenpeacegirl and PFC do a bit more research into exactly how bad palm oil is for your health.

By: Greenpeacegirl

Greenpeacegirl — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:01:03 +0000

I think you are a bit deluded…

Trans fat are many times more poisonous than palm oils because trans fats are plastic molecules. Palm oil is a natural oil which has been used by humans for centuries. It is just a normal oil and it is healthier than lard or pork fat.

You need to distinguish damage to the environment from the nature of the oil. Actually, palm oil can begrown in a way which is not harmful to orangutans. Maybe you should encourage that instead.

By: PFC

PFC — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:35:16 +0000

Okay, saturated fat is bad. Sure. But “basically as bad as transfats”? Get your stuff straight… transfats are poison.

Hit up wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_fat)… I’m not going to pretend that palm oil is some great stuff, but it *absolutely* beats transfats. Now if we can just find a method to get our food, and not destroy the planet…