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Fat is in the news again. Especially, we are being urged to purge something called trans fats from our diets. Cities such as New York have even started banning restaurants from using trans fats.

What are trans fats? Although some trans fats occur naturally--primarily in certain animal-based food products--most of them are made when manufacturers add hydrogen to vegetable oil. Hydrogenation increases the shelf life and stabilizes the flavor of foods, but at a health cost, scientists have learned.

Trans fats raise the level of bad cholesterol in your body, increasing your risk for heart disease, much the same as saturated fat does. Now, some dietary fat is good and necessary for us, but to the extent possible it should be the unsaturated, non-hydrogenated kind... [ Read more about Low Fat Cooking]

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