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 ...

Looking at nutrition labels can be confusing, as foods with high amounts of total fat won’t necessarily make you fat. Saturated fat and trans fat are two artery-clogging types that you should severely ...

The late 19th century was filled with well-intentioned food innovations — we'll just leave it at that. While this was a time when food preservation processes like canning and pasteurizing were ...

It’s just one little line added to those inscrutable nutritional labels, but the tiny change has sent tremors through the food industry–and may soon be felt in your pantry. Even if you’ve never heard ...

With new restrictions on their use, trans fats are fast on their way out of favor with the American public. But are replacements for trans fats any healthier? Artificial trans fats, which are used to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How do you know where the answers lie? The reality is, fat is engrained in American diets. It’s in the oil we use in the pan, the ...

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Recently, the Obama administration pledged to phase trans fats out of the American food supply over the next three years. This is great news, because trans fats adversely affect your brain health. Man ...

Avocados are one of the healthiest high-fat foods you can eat, but there are plenty of other nutrient-dense fats to include in meals and snacks.

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 ...