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A chapter in my bio textbook talks about cis fats and trans fats but doesn’t explain why trans fats are bad for the body. You never see labels on food wrappers about how many cis fats a food has, only the trans fats. I know how they’re different structurally, trans fats just have hydrogen atoms on different sides and cis fats have them on the same side. How does the positioning of a hydrogen atom make a food bad for you?
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So, like a lot of things in science, we know the “why” but not really the “how.”
Scientific studies have shown that diets high in trans fats are high in LDL (“bad” cholesterol) and low in HDL (“good” cholesterol). This combination is a double threat for heart health. *How* this happens is something we really don’t know at this point.
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