Some fats are actually good for us, some can be consumed in small quantities but trans fats are dangerous in any quantity...

Majority of the people today are suffering from the problem of overweight and are therefore at a great risk of a heart disease...

In order to lose weight successfully, everyone knows that you have to cut out as much fat from your diet as possible… right...

I think one of the greatest benefits received by baking your own whole wheat bread is the long term health benefits you reap...

A lot of people shiver at the mere mention of fat, especially if they are trying to lose weight It seems that this word has been associated with disease, unhappiness, and despair...

There is a health problem that almost 47 million people may already suffer from but not be aware of We can have it for years but not know it until something serious happens...

Primarily found in animal proteins and some vegetable sources, saturated fats can be a powerfully damaging food, more so from some sources than others...

What if you suddenly discovered that a dangerous, life-threatening substance had made its way into nearly half the foods in your supermarket...

Trans fat is created by modern technology and is foreign to the human body Basically, trans fat, also known as trans fatty acid, is made when manufacturers add hydrogen to liquid vegetable oils to make the oils more solid in a chemical process called hydrogenation...

What is better to use in a healthy diet, butter or margarine I can understand your confusion with all the debate about these two products...

Do you have regular cholesterol level checks If you do you probably have heard there is “good cholesterol” and “bad cholesterol...

Learning the benefits of eating health foods may convince you to start eating them But what if the foods you start eating aren't any healthier than the ones you gave up...

Ever since scientists discovered that they could solidify, or partially solidify, vegetable oil by heating it in the presence of hydrogen and particles of nickel, the food industry has become increasingly dependant on the resulting products; hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated vegetable oils...

When the demand for butter exceeded the ability of farmers to supply this desirable fat ...

Should we regulate the amount of trans fats contained in the food we eat A Canadian government task force on trans fats is recommending that all vegetable oils and spreadable margarines have the trans fat content limited to 2% of the total fat content and all other foods be limited to a maximum of 5% of total fat content...

What do these products; Dunkin donuts, Mrs Smith’s apple pie (frozen), Nabisco Chips Ahoy, Kellogg's Low Fat Granola (without raisins)Pillsbury Buttermilk Waffles (frozen), Jell-O Pudding Snacks Chocolate Flavor, Frito-Lay Tostitos Restaurant Style Tortilla Chips* have in common aside from being such all time American favorite goodies...

Trans fats, or Trans Fatty Acids, are a vegetable-based fat that is made when vegetable oils are hardened for use in shortening or margarine...

Hydrogenation is a chemical reaction -- widely used in the processing of cooking oils and fats -- that turns unsaturated fatty acids into saturated ones...

I'm going to talk about something today that most of you have probably never heard...

**50% of Scottish Babies fed Organic Baby Food According to the Scotsman, more than half of Scottish children under two are now fed an exclusively organic diet...