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RUSH: This is Jack in Miami, 20 years old. Jack, welcome to the program, are you happy?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, I\u2019m an invisible happy person living down here in Miami. <\/p>\n

RUSH: What is being invisible like? I would so like to know that, and I never will.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I really don\u2019t know. Anyway, I called today about trans fats because you had said recently that in over 20 years they\u2019re going to say we\u2019re not getting enough trans fats —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Five or six years.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I just did a six-week study on trans fats and wrote a big report about it, and I think you\u2019ll be very interested to find out how trans fats came around. The trans fat we\u2019re talking about is called galactic acid. It\u2019s a hydrogenated oil. Scientists thought that we were getting too much saturated fats, so they took an unsaturated fat like olive oil —<\/p>\n

RUSH: And added hydrogen to it to harden it up so it could store better, it could ship easier. I know all these reasons.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. But it is found nowhere in nature, that galactic acid and their many scientific studies —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. I\u2019ve gotta take a break here. I want you to hold on through the break here. Can you do that, Jack?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Gasoline isn\u2019t found in nature, either. We make it, and it does kill. I mean, there\u2019s no question. If you drink it, if you put it in a little car and a big car hits you, you\u2019re dead. It can kill you, too.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We go back now to Jack in Miami. You\u2019re giving us a little history on trans fats, hydrogenated oil, and why it is that I\u2019m wrong about something about it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, no, I\u2019m not going to say you\u2019re wrong about it. Well, the point is, the trans fats aren\u2019t safe to consume at any level, and really quick, the FDA saw all the fervor about this and they changed the rules. You\u2019re going to love this. You don\u2019t have to list trans fats if there\u2019s under half a gram a serving, so there may be trans fats in things that say ‘0 grams.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Right. In fact, I saw that today. Zero trans fats is not low enough, because you\u2019re allowed to say it\u2019s ‘per serving.\u2019 If it\u2019s less than half a gram, you can say that it\u2019s zero.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. That\u2019s one of the main things.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But you know how Big Food is killing us. They package foods that are not just one serving.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Obviously.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So Big Food is wiping us out, Jack.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Wait. That\u2019s not my point. My point is just why just one trans fat is dangerous. Your body builds almost everything, like your brain is mostly fat. All the hormones in your body are fat. When your body goes to construct what it needs out of this oleic acid, this alien fat that we have made to make food last longer, it doesn\u2019t make it quite right. It can\u2019t produce the correct levels. That\u2019s why we get (garbled) cholesterol.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So what do we get? What do we get, diarrhea?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no, no. Our cholesterol gets messed up. LDL goes way up.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, oh, oh, okay. Well, how do you…? Let me ask you a question, then.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Seriously. I\u2019ve been multiple weights over the course of my life. <\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: When I was in my twenties, I weighed over 300, and throughout my medical history my cholesterol has never been over 180. Now, I guarantee you that I have eaten trans fats, a lot of places. I didn\u2019t know what they were. You know, you go to get some french fries or something, chances are they are there. How come my cholesterol didn\u2019t go up?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, cholesterol is actually still a mystery today. Heredity plays a huge role in cholesterol.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Really? Exactly I think it plays, heredity, in a lot of things, like diabetes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It does. It most definitely does.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Intelligence.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, that\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No question about it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, the Drive-Bys don\u2019t want to say it, but yeah, it does.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Absolutely! All right, so you would urge people not to eat trans fats?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. I just spent six weeks studying them, and there are true scientific studies that show when your body goes to make hormones and cholesterol and everything out of it, it doesn\u2019t make it quite right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I know. Here\u2019s my problem. They could be right about this, and I\u2019m making a joke when I say five or six years from now they may be telling us we\u2019re not eating enough of the stuff, because it happens with everything. It happened with coffee. It happened with oat bran. All these things were going to kill us. It\u2019s in the stack, a story I had from last week. Jack, hang on here, buddy. You\u2019ve gotta hear this along with all the rest of them. ‘Healthy Fast Foods Not Easier on the Heart — So-called healthy fast food alternatives to the classic burger, fries and soft drink appear to have similar effects on the cardiovascular system.\u2019 There\u2019s no such thing as this healthy food business. Like carrots. Broccoli, too. Broccoli? That stuff is deadly. You take a look at the statistics that people that have died and how much they ate broccoli, people that have been in accidents, and how long after they ate broccoli did the accidents happen. (sigh) Tofu? You wait. You people just wait. I\u2019m telling you they\u2019re going to discover something about trans fats somewhere down the road, and say, ‘You know what, it\u2019s got a benefit.\u2019 What if the cure for Parkinson\u2019s disease is found in trans fats? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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