Trans Fat WisdomCard™

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  1. Mayo Clinic: Trans Fat: Avoid This Cholesterol Double Whammy mayoclinic.com - Trans Fat: Avoid This Cholesterol Double Whammy
  2. U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Revealing Trans Fats fda.gov - Revealing Trans Fats
  3. Healthcastle Nutrition Inc.: Trans Fat 101 - What And Where? healthcastle.com - Trans Fat 101 - What And Where?
  4. Health Canada: Trans Fat hc-sc.gc.ca - Trans Fat
  5. The City of New York: Healthy Heart - Avoid Trans Fat nyc.gov - Healthy Heart - Avoid Trans Fat
  6. Choice: Trans Fat choice.com.au - Trans Fat
  7. Natural News: Trans Fat News And Articles naturalnews.com - Trans Fat News And Articles
  8. Ontario: Tackling Trans Fat eatrightontario.ca - Tackling Trans Fat
  9. Natural-Health-Information-Centre: Trans Fats, The Real Culprit Of Western Ill-Health natural-health-information-centre.com - Trans Fats, The Real Culprit Of Western Ill-Health
  10. University of Maryland Medical Center: Trans Fats - Medically Speaking Podcast umm.edu - Trans Fats - Medically Speaking Podcast


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Research Notes on Trans Fat


Trans fat is the common name for a type of unsaturated fat with trans- isomer fatty acid. Trans fats may be monounsaturated or polyunsaturated. Most trans fats consumed today are created industrially through partial hydrogenation of plant oils — a process developed in the early 1900s and first commercialized as Crisco in 1911. ...read more from Wikipedia

Fast Facts:

  • It raises bad (LDL) cholesterol and lowers your good (HDL) cholesterol.1
  • Crackers, cookies, cakes, and many fried foods such as doughnuts and french fries contain trans fats.1
  • LDL increases the risk of heart disease.2

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Research Notes References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mayo Clinic: Trans Fat: Avoid This Cholesterol Double Whammy
  2. ↑ Healthcastle Nutrition Inc.: Trans Fat 101 - What And Where?

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