By this point, we know trans fats are a no-no. The fats, often found in processed foods, margarine, or shortening, and in fried foods, are commonly added to food products to extend their shelf life. The bad news is, the stuff is doing nothing to extend your own shelf life. In fact, a recent study published in the American Heart Journal found that women living with coronary heart disease who eat trans fats foods are at particular risk of sudden cardiac death.
The details: Harvard researchers studied data collected from more than 86,000 women enrolled in the Nurses' Health Study. While they found no connection between women not affected by heart disease, they discovered that those living with heart disease who ate the most trans fats (2.5 percent of daily calories) were three times more likely to die of sudden cardiac death when compared to the women who ate the least (less than 1.0 percent of daily calories).
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