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Bill would ban trans fats in restaurants, bakeries.
Byline: Elizabeth Gudrais
Jan. 18--PROVIDENCE -- Following New York City's lead, Rhode Island lawmakers are considering a ban on artificial trans fats in restaurants statewide.
The fats come from partially hydrogenated oil, a key ingredient in making frostings fluffy and pie crusts flaky. The oil's unique chemical structure resists breaking down, so products containing the oil have a longer shelf life, and restaurants can use the same oil over and over for deep frying.
But that same chemical structure makes the oil exceedingly bad for us, scientists say. Artificial trans fats increase low-density lipoprotein, commonly known as bad cholesterol. So do saturated fats, such as those found in meat and dairy products -- but unlike saturated fats, trans fats also lower high-density lipoprotein, or good cholesterol.
Bad cholesterol collects on cell walls and is the principal cause of coronary heart disease; good cholesterol helps to scrub cell walls clean of bad…
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