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The fatter fat

Fast-food ingredient may pump up your paunch.

Eating some fats could make you fatter than others, even if their calorie count is the same.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on June 12, 2006
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bib have known for sometime to avoid trans-fatty acids for some time. It is already being phased out, and anyone can learn about it's health risks with a google search to read about human studies. I believe it uneccessary to waste lives of monkeys to understand this issue. This was an useless means of animal experimentation.

Posted by: Barbara Byron | June 12, 2006 10:36 PM

There are also naturally occuring transfats, which are produced during ruminant digestion and occur naturally in trace amounts in milk/diary products. All these non-synthetic transfats as toxic as the partially-hydrogenized form?

Posted by: Terry J. Crebs | June 13, 2006 03:13 AM

"Eating is irrestible epsecially the fast foods, but make it healthier".

This is the fact. The fast foods containing the trans fat matters a lot as it leads not only gaining pounds around the belly but also leads to systemic diseases like diabetes & hypertension.
There should be a check on this & others should be banned for the good health of the people.

Posted by: Shanthi Sankaralingam | June 13, 2006 04:55 AM

"But when it comes to obesity, it is generally assumed that trans, saturated and unsaturated fats are equally problematic ... This study says otherwise. It suggests that trans-fats could promote obesity more than other types of fat."

The study does not support this conclusion. None of the monkeys were fed saturated fat, so the researchers were unable to make a distinction between trans fat and saturated fat. That awaits further research.

Shame on Nature for falling for the spin that the researchers' publicists put on this story. Trans fat research is sexy, but this is not a trans fat study, strictly speaking, because the real issue with trans fat is whether it is really different than saturated fat. No one doubts it's more dangerous than olive oil.

Posted by: Anju | June 13, 2006 04:16 PM

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