I often receive notes asking questions about dietary fats, like why is unsaturated fat healthier than saturated fat, and what is trans fat. Good questions, but to answer them I’ll have to first walk ...

Trans fats are unsaturated fatty acids. When a person eats trans fats it raises their bad low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels. Trans fats also lower a person’s good high-density ...

Harmful trans fats should be eliminated from Canada's food supply, health advocates told the federal government on Thursday. The report by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and Toronto Public ...

With a growing number of chains electing to change their frying oils to jettison trans fats, the impression among health-conscious consumers might be that heart-threatening dietary risks are becoming ...

Boston -- In December, New York City passed a law to phase out the use of trans fat in restaurants. Other cities, including Boston and Chicago, might follow suit. According to Alice H. Lichtenstein, ...

Trans fats. You may have heard about these man-made fats, but what’s so bad about them, and how do we avoid them? Are they one key to our growing obesity problem? We got the skinny on trans fats from ...

Most of the trans fats in our diet are derived from man-made partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (trans fats also occur naturally in beef, lamb, and dairy products). In recent years, trans fats have ...

Fatty foods harm our health. Prior research has established a link between the consumption of dietary fats and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which subsequently leads to inflammation and tumor ...

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Healthy fats your body will thank you for Fats aren’t the enemy—they’re essential for brain power, hormone balance, and heart health when you choose the right kinds. Swapping in more unsaturated fats ...

The samples of cooking oil were collected from various places in the country. Of them, 7 out of 11 samples of soyabean oil, 93 out of 95 samples of dalda, 26 out of 30 samples of butter and 6 out of 1 ...