In my recent articles I have been discussing dietary fats.  So far I have covered the three naturally occurring types of fat which are saturated fat, monounsaturated fat and polyunsaturated fat.  Today I am going to cover the fourth and final type of fat – the man made trans fat. WHAT ARE TRANS FATS? All fats are made from a combination of carbon and hydrogen atoms.  The two main types are saturated fats and unsaturated fats (which can be broken down further into monounsaturated fats and polyunsaturated fats).  With saturated fats all the carbon atoms are bonded to (or 'saturated' with) … [Read more...]