Trans fats became popular in the United States a couple of decades ago after the food police frightened everyone into using them instead of wonderful saturated fats like butter and lard, wrongly ...
Nutritional meta-analyses often promise certainty but deliver a plateful of confusion. A new study flips the script, embracing the messy reality of conflicting data, offering a fresh perspective on ...
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025-2030, highlight full-fat dairy, butter, and beef tallow as healthy fat sources, ...
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The great fat debate: Why recent dietary guidelines are leaving Americans confused and at risk
As controversy swirls over the inclusion of animal fats in new health recommendations, a leading medical expert clarifies the ...
The previous article described how fatty acids consist of long chains of carbon-carbon bonds, with the carbon mostly “saturated” with hydrogen atoms. When two saturated adjacent carbon atoms exchange ...
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 ...
Beef tallow has vitamins D, E and choline, but its high saturated fat may raise heart disease risk. Seed oils contain heart-healthy unsaturated fats, but excess intake of omega-6s compared to omega-3s ...
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