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Is interesterified soybean oil bad for you?

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Dr. Milton Alvis, jr answered

Specializes in Preventive Medicine

Probably not good: See: http://en.Wikipedia.Org/wiki/interesterified_fat. Big known issues are Trans vs. Cis fats. Living creatures only create Cis-fats; industrial hydrogenation 1/2 Trans, 1/2 Cis. The larger issue: are humans well adapted to use newly modified forms of food molecules which may commonly take hundreds/thousands of generations to successfully adapt to? Probably Not! Look up Paleo; Loren Cordain.

Answered 6/10/2014

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