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Article: Kinds of fat, not total fat, may be major factor in risk of suffering heart attack
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- November 20, 1997
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The kinds of fats consumed, not the total amount of fat, determine
a woman's risk of suffering a heart attack, according to the first
major study of the effects of all dietary fats in women.
The 14-year study, of more than 80,000 nurses, highlighted two
types of fats as the bad actors in heart disease: saturated fats,
found mainly in meat and dairy foods, and trans fats, found in most
margarines, commercial baked goods and deep-fried foods prepared
with hardened vegetable oils.
The research, which documented 939 heart attacks, fatal and
non-fatal, among the participants, is the latest in a series of
studies that have sought to define more carefully the effects of
diet on heart disease.
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