New dietary guidelines limit saturated fats to 10% of total calories, but also encourage full-fat dairy, red meat, and beef ...

The previous article described how fatty acids consist of long chains of carbon-carbon bonds, with the carbon mostly “saturated” with hydrogen atoms. When two saturated adjacent carbon atoms exchange ...

Nutritional guidelines released on Wednesday by Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and the USDA ...

I often receive notes asking questions about dietary fats, like why is unsaturated fat healthier than saturated fat, and what is trans fat. Good questions, but to answer them I’ll have to first walk ...

The new U.S. dietary guidelines prioritize certain sources of saturated fats. The change concerns experts in nutrition.

In dozens of short-term clinical trials published since 1970, researchers have found that the more saturated fats people ...

Researchers have identified ARMC5 as a key regulator of fatty acid balance in adipose tissue. ARMC5 degrades non-SCAP-bound SREBP1, activating it to regulate stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD), an enzyme ...

Consuming higher amounts of unsaturated fats was associated with lower mortality rates, according to a new study. The researchers found higher consumption of saturated and trans fats was linked with ...

Using cultured cells and mice fed a high-fat diet, researchers found an enzyme that differentiates between types of fats at the molecular level While it's no secret that the "Western diet," filled ...

It is common knowledge supported by health experts, the American Heart Association and the World Heart Federation: Eating saturated fats will cause plaque to build up in the arteries, which then ...