{"id":226353,"date":"2022-03-25T19:40:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T19:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/trans-fat-is-still-hiding-in-popular-foods-and-it-s-wreaking-havoc-on-your-cholesterol-here-s-how-to-spot-it"},"modified":"2022-03-25T19:40:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T19:40:45","slug":"trans-fat-is-still-hiding-in-popular-foods-and-it-s-wreaking-havoc-on-your-cholesterol-here-s-how-to-spot-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/trans-fat-is-still-hiding-in-popular-foods-and-it-s-wreaking-havoc-on-your-cholesterol-here-s-how-to-spot-it","title":{"rendered":"Trans fat is still hiding in popular foods and it&#8217;s wreaking havoc on your cholesterol &#8212; here&#8217;s how to spot it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trans fats exist in many popular processed foods like potato chips. UniversalImagesGroup \/ Contributor \/ Getty Images Trans fat is the unhealthiest fat because it lowers your good cholesterol and boosts bad cholesterol. If a food has less than 0.5 grams of trans fat, manufacturers can list it as 0 g on nutrition labels. To spot trans fat in your favorite foods, look at the ingredients for &#8220;partially hydrogenated oil.&#8221; Visit Insider&#8217;s Health Reference library for more advice . It&#8217;s now largely understood that artificial trans fat is the worst kind of fat you can eat. What makes it particularly unhealthy, according to Dana Ellis Hunnes , a senior dietitian at UCLA medical center and author of &#8221; Recipe For Survival , &#8221; is that it can simultaneously raise &#8220;bad&#8221; LDL cholesterol while lowering &#8220;good&#8221; HDL cholesterol levels, thereby increasing your risk for heart disease and stroke . Not only that, but Jenna Volpe , a registered dietitian in private<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FDA deemed trans fats unsafe to eat, yet many processed foods may still contain trans fat even though it&#8217;s missing from nutrition labels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,118],"tags":[59,168],"class_list":["post-226353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nutrition","tag-health","tag-nutrition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}