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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I frequently get questions from readers about dietary fats as there is a lot of confusion surrounding why some fats are bad and some good, plus why fat can increase the cholesterol in your bloodstream ...

A draft UN declaration to eliminate trans-fatty acids from global diets has elicited a sharp reaction from experts who claim it violates the rights of the world's poorest to nutritional benefits of ...

A recent report by the World Health Organization (WHO) presents the efforts of countries and organisations globally to eliminate trans fats in food. However, there is still a long way to go. The WHO’s ...