Natural fats fall into one of three families of fats. These prostaglandins act as chemical messengers within all cells and are essential to their normal function. These two groups decrease the clotting of blood, decrease blood pressure, decrease swelling and inflammation, decrease tumor growth and help burn fat. The PG-2 group does exactly the opposite and its functions promote the degenerative process. The biggest nutritional problem in our society today is the over consumption of processed fats.
Most people are unaware of the quantity of processed fats consumed on a daily basis.
Interestingly, when animals are fed solidified or saturated fats, they ate six times as much fat and six times as much food as compared to animals fed healthy unsaturated fats. By processing natural fats to partially hydrogenated ones, the shelf life of the product is greatly extended. The problem is that these partially hydrogenated fats interfere with the normal conversion of the group 1 and 3 fats to their appropriate prostaglandins. The end result of this faulty metabolism is the over production of PG-2 type which promotes inflammation, pain and degenerative diseases. Omega-3s will lower high blood pressure.