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 ...

Butter substitutes were once labeled as the healthier alternatives to butter. The reality is, many of these are heavily ...

Trans fats are unsaturated fatty acids. When a person eats trans fats it raises their bad low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels. Trans fats also lower a person’s good high-density ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), five billion people are at an increased risk of heart disease and death due to trans fats. (Photo via Getty Images) The 2022 WHO report on global ...

WASHINGTON — You may not even know you are eating them, but trans fats will soon be mostly gone from your food. The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it will require food companies to phase ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For women with heart disease, eating too many artery-clogging trans fats may increase their risk of dying suddenly from cardiac arrest, a new study suggests. Trans fats, ...

I think it was while living in Montana as a child that my brother and I took to spreading peanut butter on our pancakes, if not margarine on our toast. nnYou see, our mother refused to feed me and my ...

Now that Kraft has quietly slipped its Oreos back on the shelf without the old heart-clogging trans fats, we thought we would test them to see how they fared against a crop of other chocolate sandwich ...

The Obama administration is cracking down on artificial trans fats, calling them a threat to public health. The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it will require food companies to phase ...

Compound lipid fluxes are depicted as rivers and waterfalls flowing down a human-shaped mountain, leading to distinct pools including liver- and heart-shaped lakes. Different fatty acids flow down the ...