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Trans Fats - Are They Really Good Fats?

The difference between good fats and bad fats is broadly on how saturated or unsaturated they are. In Australia, hardly any saturated fats in our foods and processed foods. In America, there's been heaps and heaps of them. So we don't have to actually worry about trans fats but when you see a saturated fat, trans gets incorporated into that. Saturated plus trans, they're the nasty ones no matter what you read. They do increase your LDL which is the bad cholesterol that gets stuck on your arteries. The polyunsaturates, including omega-3s which are a special category of saturated fats, help reverse that hardening of the arteries. But then what about dairy

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