Trans Fat Research Paper

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Many people normally eat food that contains fat but they never known about a type of fat. There are two main types of fat, saturated and unsaturated fats. The part of saturated fat are bad fats and solid at room temperature and unsaturated fats are good fats and liquid at room temperature. Trans fats is a manufacture of a chemical process is know as hydrogenation, it turns liquid oil into solids. Trans fats are unsaturated fat but it has attribution as saturated fat that cause troubles your health. If you consume a diet from many trans fats product people will get illnesses such as heart disease, weight and diabetes type-2. Therefore, people should know about meaning of trans fats,the negativeeffect and prevention.

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National Library of Medicine, The consumption of TFA has been associated with increased total and low – density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and decreased the “good” high – density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol in body of human, that are cause of atherosclerosis, a disease in which plaque builds up inside your arteries (Arteries are blood vessels that carry oxygen – rich blood to your heart and other parts of your body), when those plaque occur in the arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle, the end result is high blood pressure or hypertension. Moreover, People with high blood pressure are more likely to develop coronary heart disease because high blood pressure puts added force against the artery walls and if a blood vessel to the brain is blocked, usually from a blood clot, an ischemic stroke can happen or if a blood vessel within the brain, most likely as a result of uncontrolled hypertension (high blood pressure), a hemorrhagic stroke can result. All of these effects of Trans fat can increased the risk of death if they lack of awareness about health care and food consumption. There are other problems involving with eating trans fat, people will gain more weight because they eating trans fats too much accounting for about 2% to 3% of total calories consumed pre day, it become to “Belly Fat” According to the researcher at wake Forest University school of Medicine, diets rich in trans fat and cause …show more content…

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined that generally food is no longer “generally recognized as safe” and should be phased out of the production of food over the next several years. However, naturally – occurring trans fat will still be found in some foods. So, people should change behaviors. First of all, eating behaviors, they should eat trans fats no more than 2 kg/day and limiting the amount of fatty foods such as fried chicken, hamburger and cookies, especially in food processing in the form of fat. Moreover, it is better to choose the diet that contains trans fats 0 percent or less than 0.5 grams and eating vegetables, fruits and fish such as salmon, sardine and mackerel that have many high omega 3 fatty acids and DHA. There are also helpful for preventing cell damage caused by Alzheimer’s disease. Other behaviors, people should know about quantity of trans fats for avoid eating too much trans fats, Additionally, people should exercise for burn fat that they have eaten before. According to Moll, clinical studies on aerobic exercises such as jogging, running and aerobics are the most common. The results show aerobic exercises appear to benefit cholesterol the most, by lowering LDL by 5 to 10 percent and raising HDL cholesterol by 3 to 6 percent.

In conclusion, trans fats are bad fat. It can lead to illness such as hypertension, stroke, coronary