Are Trans fats really that bad for us compared to other fats or is it just a case of diet culture throwing a random aspect of food under the bus like they did with Carbs?

Question

I will never forgive the diet industry for telling me potatoes were bad for me, once I stopped caring about fad shit and just eating at a deficit (including at least one baked potato a day) the pounds absolutely melted off.

It got me thinking about other foods that the government / diet companies have said are bad. Were trans fats actually a big problem? The ban certainly hasn’t done much for the obesity epidemic.

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Answer 1

Trans fats are legitimately bad. They won’t kill you, but there isn’t any mechanism for them to be used by our metabolism so they just get in the way and cause problems.

Edit: Apparently some people need clarification. Trans fats definitely kill you in the long term. I figured my original explanation was clear enough since anything that causes health problems also chronically kills but maybe someone can give me a counter example. It just won’t kill you like a bullet.