Popcorn At The Movies

Movie theater popcorn was all over the news this past week. This information comes from the Good Morning America segment on it. Saturated fats went out of favor once scientists discovered the effects of this fat on our health and heart, with coconut oil being absolutely the WORST of all.

In 1994, movie popcorn stopped using it, found that people didn’t like it using less saturated fat, and went back to heart-clogging coconut oil. An average medium unbuttered popcorn has 60 grams of fat, the amount your body needs (in the unsaturated variety of course) in three days. Yes, we do need some fat in our diets for some essential functions and compounds in our bodies.

Obviously, for movie theaters, it’s all about the money, follow the money. They don’t give a fig about you!  If they use unsaturated fats to pop corn, nobody buys it. So don’t buy it anyway. Actually, the salt content makes me wake up in the middle of the night with such a horrible thirst I feel like I having been crawling though a desert for weeks looking for water.

I can’t post a link that goes right to this video, but you can find it in the health section, from Thursday, November 19: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/