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Improve the quality of your life. 2/6/2008 Donuts, Potato Chips and Biodiesel   Kronodynamics, Cenegenics, and surely any up to date health counselor advises their clients to avoid consumption of trans-fats. Among the many negative health effects of trans-fats is the fact that they are: increasingly implicated as contributing to cancer, heart disease, and other inflammatory conditions. Of equal concern for all of us trying to practice a low glycemic lifestyle to gain carb consciousness is the research that indicates trans-fatty acids in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils are one of the main causes of type 2 diabetes, characterized by high levels of both insulin and glucose in the blood, because they inhibit the insulin receptors in the cell membranes. Follow this link for more details about trans-fats and insulin resistance http://www.westonaprice.org/knowyourfats/type-2-diabetes.htmld the Healing Arts So what does the above have to do with donuts, potato chips, and biodiesel? Check out the following letter from Dennis Meizys of Maryland Green Power Co. taken from the Summer 2007 journal, Wise Traditions In Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts: “My company is researching the production of biodiesel from used vegetable oil, and has contacted manufacturers which we suspected would produce the most waste oil. What comes to mind? Well, greasy potato chips (just look at your fingers after you eat them!) and donuts come to mind, after contacting the obvious home-run hitters, McDonald’s and KFC. Contrary to what you might think, it seems the worst abusers of vegetables were not McDonald’s, but potato chip and donut manufacturers. One manufacturer replied to my offer to purchase their used oil with the explanation that they hardly have any used oil left-over after the process. Tens of thousands of gallons come in, barely hundreds come out. The reason? This manufacturer recycles the oil until it is entirely absorbed by the food. All that dirty oil ends up in the potato chips themselves. One problem that occurs after re-using vegetable oils is that FFAs (free fatty acids) concentrate. The manufacturer volunteered this fact and noted that their solution is to chemically treat the oil to reduce the FFAs, after which it is sent back to produce more potato chips. Mmmm-re-used vegetable oil treated with chemicals to reduce free fatty acids! It turns out that that these oils are so bad that biodiesel manufacturers shun them! In other words, they are difficult to catalyze into methyl-esters (biodiesel) and producers are reluctant to use them for engine fuel, yet people still eat the potato chips! That brings us to the last time I ate a donut, those nicely colored sweet confections. If you only saw the waste products. My offer to pick up one donut shop’s used oil for free was met by much enthusiasm by the management, and they told me that I could pick up a 55-gallon drum once every six months. Did you ever go inside the donut shop and see how much oil they have in those vats? Now consider the fact that they only dispose of 55 gallons every six months! One closed down shop asked me to pick up their barrel of used vegetable oil from their parking lot because it was leaking and causing environmental damage. I tried to drain the oil out, but it was so thick and sludgy that it clogged my pump. I was considering using a heavy duty sewage pump to drain it, but decided not to because the thick, smelly contents of that barrel were not usable as an ingredient for fuel, and refining it would be too expensive. The materiel had an uncanny resemblance to sewage. The only reason I knew it wasn’t, was that it had a sweet, donut-like smell to it, but entirely unpleasant. Scientific facts like knowing the carcinogenic content of these “foods” is interesting, but if you want real motivation to avoid junk foods, go to the back of the “restaurant” were they dispose of their environmentally-harmful by-product and take a look. Also you can ask them why they have to keep the stuff in barrels and wait for expensive disposal services instead of just sending it down the drain? The reason: The Environmental Protection Agency does not allow it.” So Kronodynamics folks, those donuts and chips probably aren’t the best snacks.     < BACK TO HEADLINES

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