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Consuming trans fats, especially those from hydrogenated oils, increases your LDL cholesterol. As there is no real nutritional benefit to including hydrogenated oil in your diet, doctors recommend ...
The FDA is currently in the midst of litigation about trans fat; in 2013, 98-year-old heart disease researcher Fred Kummerow sued the FDA for failing to ban the use of partially hydrogenated oil ...
Trans fats are found in two forms — natural, which occur in some animal products and aren’t considered harmful, and artificial, which are hydrogenated vegetable oils and have serious health ...
Artificially creating saturated fat through hydrogenation is unhealthy, but it's worse when the unsaturated fat is only partially hydrogenated converting it into trans fat. Partial hydrogenation ...
Trans fatty acids or trans fats are formed when manufacturers turn liquid oils into solid fats. Think shortening and hard margarine. Manufacturers create trans fats via a process called hydrogenation.
Trans fat was the first man-made fat to become part of our food supply more than a century ago when a German scientist presented Procter & Gamble with ways to add hydrogen to cottonseed oil.
Trans fat consumption has declined significantly in the last 10 years — dropping 78% between 2003 and 2012. Yet, an FDA estimate from 2013, the latest year for which it has data, found people ...
American consumers are finally winding down their love-hate relationship with trans fats. Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that manufacturers must stop adding trans fats ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration now requires food manufacturers to list trans fats (often called partially hydrogenated oils) on nutrition labels, which prompted many food companies ...
From the start, trans fats’ earthy origins were a selling point over that of their rivals, beef fat and butter. When Procter & Gamble debuted Crisco in 1911, it was billed: "It's all vegetable!
Trans fat can make food tasty, but it's bad for your heart. ... Trans fats also include partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs), or vegetable oils that have become solid fats.