The Danger of Trans Fats

little more saturated.

Now, most unsaturated fats are good for you, while saturated fats are bad for you in excess.

Saturated fats, typically from animal sources, are next, while trans fats are to be avoided.

No matter what you choose, the recommended goal is to limit the intake of saturated fat and avoid trans fats altogether.

But scientists eventually took notice of its high

Many studies have shown that unsaturated fats, particularly monounsaturated fats, are best in the human diet.

In 2004, Denmark became the first country to legislate limits on trans fat content of foods, largely eliminating industrial trans fats from all foods (including restaurants) in that country.

Considerable evidence exists for harmful effects of trans fat intake. Furthermore, trans fats from partially hydrogenated oils have no intrinsic health value.

But some newer margarines are much lower in saturated fat, lower their calorie count and contain zero trans fats.

Animal protein, cholesterol, saturated fat, trans fatty acids, which is why it is impossible.

The usual suspects, like saturated fat and sugar, nicotine, opiates, cocaine, too much alcohol and chronic stress.

Fatty acids with only single bonds are called saturated, and those with one or more double bonds are called unsaturated.

And the bad fats are things like trans fatty acids and processed food and saturated fats, which we find in meat.

Saturated fats have all of the carbon atoms in their fatty acid chains bonded to hydrogen atoms, whereas unsaturated fats have some of these carbon atoms double bonded, so their molecules have relatively fewer hydrogen atoms than a saturated fatty acid of the same length.

Thus, little justification can be made for the use of partially hydrogenated oils, compared with other natural oils or fats.

It should also be emphasized that much less is known about trans fat consumption in developing countries.

Not so fast, unsaturated fat has a lower melting point and so its natural state is less solid, like vegetable oil.

How can you say something is low fat when it's full of so much sugar?

If restaurants and food manufacturers will not voluntarily eliminate trans fats (as has largely been done in the Netherlands), several points validate the need for, and the importance, of legislative measures to reduce the consumption of trans fats

Saturated and some trans fats are typically solid at room temperature (such as butter or lard), while unsaturated fats are typically liquids (such as olive oil or flaxseed oil).

And the bad fats are things like trans fatty acids and processed food and saturated fats, which we find in meat.

I guzzle junk food like my mouth's a garbage chute, but my intestines are allergic to trans fat.

Trans fats are a type of unsaturated fat with trans isomer bonds these are rare in nature and in foods from natural sources they are typically created in an industrial process called (partial) hydrogenation.

New York City has banned trans fats from restaurants and is now limiting the permitted serving size of sugary drinks.

They're also terrible for your health, by far worse than saturated fat, even though technically they're a type of unsaturated fat.

Canada is considering similar legislation, and the city of Chicago is also considering banning industrial trans fats from restaurants.

Some milk substitutes are marketed to consumers as being more healthy than cow's milk, by being lower in saturated fat and for not containing cholesterol.

Essentially trans fats lower good cholesterol and higher the bad cholesterol which increases the risk of coronary heart disease.

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For saturated fats, the story pretty much ends there but not for unsaturated fats.

Likewise, you can go over your lipids and, again, understand what your overall cholesterol level is and then break down into the HDL and the LDL if you so choose.

Conversely, substantial evidence exists that use of trans fats can be eliminated almost entirely without any effects on food taste, cost, or availability.

But there is no quick fix for fat or fat deposits or for cellulite.

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In summary, considerable evidence exists for harm, and little evidence for intrinsic health value, of consumption of trans fats from partially hydrogenated vegetable oils.

It's not how much fat you eat, it's what kind of fat.

This is fat digestion.

Partial hydrogenation, which converts vegetable oils into semi solid fats for use in margarines, commercial cooking, and manufacturing processes, converts approximately 30 of the natural fats to trans fats. In the US, consumption of trans fats averages between 2 4 of total energy, with major sources being deep fried fast foods, bakery products (cakes, cookies, muffins, pies, etc.), packaged snack foods, margarines, and breads.

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