Miami Vegan Blog

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Cool Product of the day #2

How It Works

Enova™ oil is the first cooking oil clinically shown to help you maintain a healthy weight when used as part of a sensible diet. Studies show that, compared to other cooking and salad oils, less Enova™ oil is stored in the body as fat. Foods made with Enova™oil taste just like foods made with traditional oil – so you can eat a sensible diet complete with the satisfying food you love and maintain a healthy weight.

Your body breaks down the fat in foods into components the intestine can absorb. These components are called fatty acids. Then the intestine rebuilds the fatty acids into fat molecules and combines them into packets that are sent to the bloodstream, to be stored in body tissues. But your body doesn’t treat all fats quite the same, and that’s why Enova™ oil is so special.

Traditional cooking oils consist mostly of fat molecules called triacylglycerols, or TAGs, with a small amount of diacylglycerols, or DAGs. Enova™ oil consists mostly of DAGs. TAGs carry three fatty acids on a backbone molecule; DAGs carry two fatty acids in the first and second positions on the backbone (1,2 DAGs) or in the first and third positions (1,3 DAGs). Your body breaks down Enova™ oil and traditional TAG oils exactly the same way and absorbs the resulting fatty acids into the intestine.

Enova™ oil consists of at least 80% DAGs. Approximately seventy percent of these DAGs are the (1,3) form of diacylglycerol. Due to the shape of the (1,3) DAG molecules, enzymes in the intestine can't recombine most of the pieces of this fat into fat molecules, so less fat is passed into the bloodstream to be stored in the body. Less of the DAG in Enova™ Oil is stored in the body as fat.

Watch a movie about How It Works. Windows Media | Real Player (Length: Approximately 5 minutes)

To see an infographic on How It Works click here.

[Enova Oil Website]
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I just found this oil in my grocery store and decided to try it. One thing I've found is that it tastes better than the olive oil I used to by. In my salad, it taste so good and if it helps you lose weight, even better. Try it. You have my personal recommendation.

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