High trans fat intake increased ischemic stroke risk among a large cohort of postmenopausal women, but taking aspirin appears to lessen the risk, study findings published in Annals of Neurology ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FDA is phasing out artificial trans fats from the food supply, but people should limit their intake of saturated fats, too, which can also cause heart disease. There are three ...

Cooking certain vegetables in oils at high temperatures can create unhealthy fats linked to heart disease risk, according to a new study. The exact relationship between unhealthy fats and heart ...

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 ...

These trans-fatty acids clog arteries, increasing the risks of heart attack and death. Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in the world, and more than 278,000 deaths each year can ...

Fat has had quite the parley in dietary discussion spaces – the low-fat movement starting in the 1980s told us we should eliminate fat, while high-fat diets like keto tell us the opposite. How do you ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who want to get pregnant may want to stay away from fast food French fries not just to avoid putting on some extra pounds, a new study shows. Sign up here. The more ...

Nutritional meta-analyses often promise certainty but deliver a plateful of confusion. A new study flips the script, embracing the messy reality of conflicting data, offering a fresh perspective on ...

The link between trans fatty acids and coronary heart disease (CHD) is so strong that cities have banned them in restaurants, but now comes even more damning evidence: Women with the highest blood ...

High blood pressure affects millions worldwide, but there are things that can be done to lower it, and diet plays a key role. Cardiologists Dr A Adnan Aslam and Dr Roy Norman, from Northwest Houston ...