Timeline for Why are trans fats worse than saturated fats?
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| Jun 29, 2021 at 14:38 | comment | added | user148298 | If the oil is hydrogenated, wouldn't it be like burning a water soaked log where it produces less heat? Less heat means less calories? | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 3:51 | vote | accept | user27188 | ||
| Feb 25, 2016 at 3:11 | comment | added | jheindel | But no I mean I hydrogenate. As I understand it the body first hydrogenates the double bonds and then breaks down these saturated chains into smaller parts (by some process unknown to me). | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 3:09 | comment | added | jheindel | I don't know. I'm sure there's a lot written about this. Trans fats have been shown to increase the likelihood of heart disease, so one more biologically minded than myself might be able to make something out of that fact. | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 2:48 | comment | added | user27188 | Does hydrogenation somehow change cis to trans bonds? And are those trans fats harder to process in the body because we lack the right kinds of lipase enzymes to hydrolyze them? So why don't they just pass through the system, unabsorbed, without negatively reacting with anything (similar to how a fat blocker might interfere with a triglyceride's ability to get pulled apart into fatty acids by lipase)? | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 2:45 | comment | added | user27188 | When you say hydrogenate in your answer, do you mean hydrolyze? | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 2:35 | comment | added | jheindel | I'm not saying they don't exist, but simply that lipids primarily contain cis double bonds. Pretty much all fatty acids are cis double bonds: Palmitoleic acid, oleic acid, myristoleic acid, linoleic acid, archadinoic acid. Also that article says that 2.7% of the 25% unsaturated fats in bovine milk is trans. That's .675% of the total. | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 2:24 | comment | added | user27188 |
"nature basically makes cis double bonds in fats (which sounds weird but is true)" what about the natural trans fats found in milk? ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2596709
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| Feb 25, 2016 at 2:23 | comment | added | user27188 | Does industrial hydrogenation do more than just break up double bonds / append hydrogen? Does it also somehow change cis double-bonds to trans double-bonds (how?) without adding any extra hydrogen at those junctions? | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 2:18 | history | answered | jheindel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |