The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025-2030, highlight full-fat dairy, butter, and beef tallow as healthy fat sources, ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — You may not even know you are eating them, but trans fats will soon be mostly gone from your food. The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it will require food companies to ...

Fat, fat, fat! Would all of our weight loss problems be solved if we just eliminated fat from our diets? Unfortunately, it's not that simple. We actually need fats -- can't live without them, in fact.

WASHINGTON (AP) — There are a lot fewer trans fats in the nation’s food than there were a decade ago, but the Obama administration is moving toward getting rid of them almost entirely. The Food and ...

Recently, the Obama administration pledged to phase trans fats out of the American food supply over the next three years. This is great news, because trans fats adversely affect your brain health. Man ...

Last we heard, the once ubiquitous trans fats had mostly disappeared from packaged cookies, muffins and french fries. That's what we reported back in November 2013, when the Food and Drug ...

Work is finished, and you’re tired and hungry. Maybe you’re rushing home or to daycare pickup. You know you should be cooking dinner from scratch for the healthiest choice but that isn’t going to ...

As controversy swirls over the inclusion of animal fats in new health recommendations, a leading medical expert clarifies the ...