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Trans-lating fats. (updates).
If you eat pastries or fried foods, take note. A long-awaited report from the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine concludes that no amount of trans fatty acids is safe to consume--and these foods are loaded with them.
Frequently used today as a common ingredient by the food processing industry, trans fatty acids, or trans fats, have only been a problem for the past century.
This class of fat is found in abundance in margarine, hydrogenated vegetable shortening and foods that contain shortening--among them, fried foods and baked goods. To a lesser extent, trans fats also are found in meats and dairy products.
Trans fatty acids increase levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the "bad" cholesterol, while lowering levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), or "good" cholesterol. This combination makes trans fats a leading contributor to the risk of heart disease.
In fact, trans fats are considered a greater risk to health than saturated fat, which has long been associated with coronary heart disease.
In 1999, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed that the ...
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