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 ...

Q: A listed ingredient for one spread (Benecol) is plant sterol esters; in another spread (Take Control) is an equal amount of plant stanol esters. Is there a difference? Also, both products claim to ...

In a recent study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, a group of researchers in the United States investigated the impact of different types and amounts of dietary fatty acids on ...

Wageningen, the Netherlands - Dutch researchers have found that people replacing the saturated fatty acids in their diets with trans fatty acids experience a dip in their serum HDL cholesterol and ...

Trans-fatty acids have been the topic of a lot of negative health news, but in the July Journal of Lipid research, a dietary study in rats suggests that trans-fats do not increase the risk of insulin ...

(HealthDay News) — Among older adults, specific trans fatty acids (TFAs) may be associated with diabetes mellitus (DM), according to a study published in Diabetes Care. Qianyi Wang, from the Harvard ...