you could take a healthy oil like olive oil and put it in a pan and cook it at high heat.

And you see all those bubbles? And apparently even though what you're reading on the label says,

one gram out of 14 in the sex perversion olive oil is actually saturated. When you cook it at

high heat, it becomes more saturated. You know, the fried foods may look good in that crispiness and

the tastiness, but from a heart health point of view, you're basically loading yourself for the

lot of saturated fat. And the frying process, particularly deep frying, just saturates whatever it

is with more fat than there would be otherwise.

Hi, and welcome to the Exam Room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. I am the Weight

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It comes as no surprise that Americans have a deep love affair with fried food. As a matter of

fact, you can call it an obsession. Talking about fried chicken and fried fish and french fries

and potato chips and burgers. Even fried pickles. By and large as a society, we put these fat bombs

up on a pedestal and pretty much worship them. I mean, it is crazy to think that fried twinkies

and fried Oreos have achieved God status in some circles. But that is the case and millions of us

are gathering at the Church of Our Lady of Sinful Eating seven days a week.

And the thing is, nobody is really questioning whether or not fried food is healthy.

We've known that for years and years and years that it's not. And yet, we still get down on our

knees every Thanksgiving and thank the good Lord above for fried turkey.

So we know that it's not healthy but we choose to ignore it. Why? Because admitting it wouldn't be

a whole lot of fun. Would it? It would be taking the wind out of the unhealthy sales, all of the air

out of the balloon. But you know what? Today at the risk of being a big bucket of cold water,

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