Excess cholesterol is known to form artery-clogging plaques that can lead to stroke, arterial disease, heart attack, and more, making it the focus of many heart health campaigns. Fortunately, this ...

In a recent study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, a group of researchers in the United States investigated the impact of different types and amounts of dietary fatty acids on ...

The previous article described how fatty acids consist of long chains of carbon-carbon bonds, with the carbon mostly “saturated” with hydrogen atoms. When two saturated adjacent carbon atoms exchange ...

Trans fats are unsaturated fatty acids. When a person eats trans fats it raises their bad low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels. Trans fats also lower a person’s good high-density ...

Confusion often arises in conversations about dietary fat. There are many, e.g., polyunsaturated, monounsaturated, and saturated fats, cis and trans fats, short, medium, and long chain fatty acids, ...

Compound lipid fluxes are depicted as rivers and waterfalls flowing down a human-shaped mountain, leading to distinct pools including liver- and heart-shaped lakes. Different fatty acids flow down the ...