Why are trans fats bad for you, what do they do to your body?
In: Chemistry
Basically there are two types of cholesterol, a kind that’s molecules are more *cohesive* and a kind that is more *adhesive*. Your body needs cholesterol but the bad kind sticks to the walls of your veins and arteries instead of being carried back through your system to be processed by your liver. The accumulation of these bad cholesterols narrows your arteries as well as making them more vulnerable to tearing. Transfats not only raise the amount of the bad kind of cholesterol, they lower the amount of the good kind (that sticks to other cholesterol molecules and carry them through to be processed correctly.
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