Category Archives: Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil

Lipid Studies: Deliberate Obfuscation

The theory that dietary lipids including cholesterol and saturated fat are causative factors in the development of atherosclerosis is a widely held belief. This viewpoint is based on supposed evidence from the scientific literature. However, studies used as evidence for … Continue reading

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More on trans Fats: Pain and Death

Natural vegetable oils present in nuts and seeds are healthy oils because they contain high concentrations of the essential fatty acids α-linolenic acid (ALA, C18:3 (n-3)) and linoleic acid (LA, C18:2 (n-6)). Alpha linolenic acid is desaturated and elongated in … Continue reading

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Hydrogenated, trans and Deodorised Fats

Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) from plants have important health implications because two of these fatty acids, α-linolenic acid (ALA, C18:3 (n-3)) and linoleic acid (LA, C18:2 (n-6)) are essential to health. Unsaturated fatty acids have double bonds that gives the … Continue reading

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High Fat Diets are Healthy

he recent advice to limit intakes of dietary fat has been a disaster for health. Medical recommendations to lower fat and cholesterol intakes, based on the erroneous cholesterol theory of cardiovascular disease, have caused an epidemic of obesity in Western … Continue reading

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Trans Fatty Acids

Fatty acids are unsaturated if they possess a double bond in their carbon chain, and can be classified as monounsaturated (one double bond) or poly unsaturated (many double bonds). Unsaturated fatty acids were historically grouped together in one category, but … Continue reading

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