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 ...

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 ...

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The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that approximately half the world's population is now protected against industrially manufactured trans fats. According to WHO Director-General Tedros ...

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A study published today supports recent efforts to rid the American diet of trans fats. In the study, women with the highest levels of trans fat in their blood had triple ...

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 ...