What happens when you eat hydrogenated oils?

Just how bad is this ingredient for your health? Consider this list of detrimental health effects caused by hydrogenated oils, published in this report:

• Directly promotes heart disease
• Promotes cancers: breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer
• Results in low birth weight infants
• Raises LDL (bad) cholesterol and lower HDL (good) cholesterol
• Raises blood sugar levels and promotes weight gain
• Interferes with the absorption of essential fatty acids and DHA
• Impairs brain function and damages brain cells
• Accelerates tumor growth
• Accelerates the progress of type-2 diabetes
• Raises serum cholesterol
• Impairs immune system function
• Promotes attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
• Impairs development of the brains of fetuses
• Causes gallbladder disease
• Causes liver disease
• Causes 30,000 deaths per year in the United States alone
• Clogs blood, makes blood cells stick together
• Blocks the body's creation of natural pain-reducing hormones (eicosanoids)
• Causes the creation of free radicals that promote inflammation
• Creates nutritional deficiencies of healthy oils and essential fatty acids (EFAs)
• Promotes cystic fibrosis
• Lowers essential fatty acids in the breast milk of nursing mothers
• Clogs artery walls and promotes atherosclerosis
• Cause gum disease and rotted teeth
• Lowers tissue oxygen intake
• Causes infertility
• Directly damages blood vessels
• Causes high blood pressure
• Weaken cell walls and compromises cellular structure
• Causes dandruff and acne