I can't believe I used to eat this

When I was growing up there was one staple that my family ate to celebrate countless birthdays: Pepperidge Farm Golden Layer Cake. It came out of the freezer section in a white box. I remember struggling to wait while it thawed on the counter. I always begged for a second piece. 

One thing we didn't know then is that it was filled with Partially Hydrogenated Oil – an ingredient that has now been banned by the FDA because it's very harmful to the heart.

You may know this as the stuff that made up margarine and Crisco shortening. That oily goo was a staple in the processed food industry, and basically, if you ate anything processed in the last few decades, you were eating this substance.

"Partially hydrogenated oil" is made in a factory by taking a liquid vegetable oil (like the soybean and cottonseed oil that Pepperidge Farm used in their cake) and transforming it into a semi-solid by adding hydrogen to it. The food industry LOVED to use this heavily processed, solidified oil because it was CHEAP… much cheaper than using real butter and allowed them to create foods with a really long shelf life…

But they had a problem…

Buzz started generating in the 1950's that it was giving people heart attacks. As the years went on, more and more research backed up the harmful effects of partially hydrogenated oils on the heart. Yet the FDA turned a blind eye and allowed it in our food for DECADES. Why, you ask?

Big Food companies (Kraft and Procter & Gamble) hired scientists to SPIN THE SCIENCE and hide the dangers of partially hydrogenated oils so that the industry could keep using this cheap ingredient.

This is one of the examples on how the Food Industry lied to us for years - and why I wrote my book Feeding You Lies. 

If you are fed up with these lies - like me - please get your copy of Feeding You Lies early - and preorder it now. 

Xo,

Vani 

P.S. When you pre-order, you'll get a bonus ebook that you can start reading today. It's called the Product Lie Detector Guide and includes:

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