That French Fry Sat In Your Body For How Long?

As Americans, we are consuming far too many bad fats that damage our health. From the time we’re knee high to a grasshopper, there are staples in our diet like:

• Vegetable oil
• Canola oil
• Corn oil
• Peanut oil
• Sunflower oil

We need to start thinking about the negative, inflammatory effects unhealthy oils have on our bodies.

These oils are denatured, which means they’ve been altered by a chemical process. That might include deep frying, the use of GMOs, pasteurization, or allowing them to become spoiled and rancid before they even reach the grocery store shelves.

When you take in these bad fats, they are attracted to the cell membrane like a magnet. That’s because your cell membrane is made out of two layers of fat, and fat attracts fat.

Once these fats are embedded in the cell membrane, it will create chronic inflammation.

Think about the oil that McDonald’s uses for their french fries. The oil has a half-life of 51 days in the human body. Using the half-life rule and doubling it, that means 102 days after you’ve eaten the french fries, 25% of that remaining fat is STILL in your body.

How unnatural does that sound?!

And then we wonder why, as a nation, we are so sick.

These bad fats are damaging our cells and making it impossible for the body’s cells to get the nutrients they need.

It results in a cascade of negative effects. If you’re struggling with energy problems, brain fog, unwanted weight or other common issues, it can be traced back to the cell level.

Choose Healthy Fats Instead

Eating a balanced, nutritious diet that includes a good amount of healthy fats is essential to overall well being — we’ve been told for too long that dietary fat is the enemy and it’s simply not true. Our cells need fat to function optimally. The type and source of fat you consume is what matters, so be cautious and eat only “good fats” to build and maintain healthy cells.

You’ve likely heard that grass-fed butter is a good choice, and it is! But there are a lot of other healthy fat sources to choose from, things like:

• Extra virgin olive oil
• Avocados and avocado oil (which is great for high heat cooking, as it has a high smoke point)
• Coconut oil
• MCT oil
• Nuts & seeds, like walnuts, almonds, macadamia nuts, pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, hemp seeds, or flax seeds, and their oils
• Eggs
• Grass-fed beef
• Fish and chicken, especially oily fish like wild-caught salmon, tuna, sardines, etc.

Eat plenty of healthy fats for healthy cells!

There are other sources as well, but that’s a solid list to start from. And consider, too, that you should buy organic whenever possible. Plenty of brands out there claim to be “natural,” but that’s not a word that tells you much — regulatory organizations are surprisingly lax when it comes to what they’ll allow manufacturers to put on labels.

So don’t be afraid to pick up a product and read what’s in it! I encourage you to select products that don’t even have any ingredient label at all, because it’s clear what’s contained in it. You won’t see a bundle of kale with a laundry list of ingredients on it.

You have the power to take back control of your health, and it starts with the food you choose to eat — so choose wisely!