If you haven’t cut trans fats out of your diet yet, now”s the time!  Mainstream medicine, restaurants, and even city governments are warning to stay away from trans fats completely for a healthier diet. Trans fats are now known to boost bad cholesterol, decrease good cholesterol, gum up arteries, and set off inflammation throughout the body, which can trigger a host of problems, from stroke to diabetes (It’s not only sugar, but other poor diet issues that cause type 2 diabetes).  Simply put, eliminating trans fats from your diet now will improve your health.

To start:  check the labels of all processed (packaged) foods in your kitchen, including chips, crackers, cookies,  microwave popcorn, candy peanut butter and snack bars. If the ingreidiants include hydrogenated, partially hydrogenated oils, the product contains trans fats EVEN IF the label says 0 grams trans fats (zero can mean less than 1 gram. This is a deceitful labeling practice that is employed to get around labeling laws that require trans fats to be list on the nutrition facts of all products).

Luckily, giving up trans fats does not mean giving up your favorite snack foods.  Meadowsweet Market offers a variety of great tasting snacks that are truly free of trans fats.  And browse juniperfoods quick and easy snack items that are free of gluten and other allergens.