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Every generation has some product/ingredient that they didn’t know was dangerous at the time: tobacco, lead, asbestos, etc. What is that item for this generation? (self.asklemmy)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I'm being real, my only knowledge of trans fats comes from that one American Dad episode where Stan tries to smuggle them across state lines to make his food taste good again after they're banned. Would you mind educating me on what the commotion was about them?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So trans fats are unsaturated fats (which we typically associate with good fats) but because of how trans fats are structured they contribute to LDL cholesterol, the bad type of cholesterol.

Ultimately if you consumes lots of it, it gets deposited into the walls of your arteries. This is a real problem in the heart since it can lead to a heart attack.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That sounds like BS.

I mean think about it logically, if I only eat several kg of trans fats a day I'll die of starvation? That doesn't pass the sniff test.

"They basically sit in your liver until you die" - so if I eat 1lb of trans fats a week at the end of a year I'll be 52lbs heavier and my liver will be the size of a toddler?

Maybe the body can't efficiently use them like it does other fats for hormone production and such but they definitely count as calories and they're definitely not just chilling anywhere in your body till you die.