"Positive Health News"
by Conrad LeBeau

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TRANS FATTY ACIDS - THE PIECE OF THE CELL MEMBRANE PUZZLE THAT WON'T FIT

Imagine for a minute that each individual cell looked like a brick house from the outside. If the bricklayer is constructed of only rectangular brick of the same identical size, the finished house will be sealed from rain and from invasion by critters like cockroaches and spiders. Now imagine if a bricklayer built a house with bricks that had different shapes of width and length. Like the pieces of a mismatched puzzle, they would not properly fit together.

Between the bricks would soon be exposed large cracks. Into these cracks, cock roaches crickets and spiders could find their way into the house or they could lay their eggs in the cracks between the bricks. Now, imagine that the brick house is an individual cell in your body and that its outer wall is composed of fats that are out of shape and do not fit tightly together like the pieces of a puzzle with no missing pieces and no gaps between the pieces. In his book "Fats That Heal - Fats That Kill," Udo Erasmus writes on Trans Fatty acids:

"Misfits. The change in shape from the bent cis-form to the straight trans-form fits the molecules into body structures differently. In biological systems, the trans-form only half-fits into enzyme and membrane structures. It takes up the space and blocks out the cis-form, but cannot do the work that the cis-form can do.

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