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The new fat that's worse than trans fat.(News flash)(Brief article)
Just about everyone knows that trans fats are bad news when it comes to boosting cholesterol and heart disease risk. But their replacement--known as interesterified fats--are even more dangerous, according to a study in the January 2007 journal Nutrition & Metabolism.
Kenneth C. Hayes, PhD, of Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, and some colleagues in Malaysia put 30 healthy subjects on three diets, each for one month. The diets were the same except that they alternately included 30 percent saturated fat, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, or interesterified soybean oil.
Like trans fats, interesterified fats raised blood levels of the "bad" LDL cholesterol and lowered the "good" HDL cholesterol. But the real shock came when the researchers looked at ...
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