Mysterious Fats Fuel Disease More Than We Knew, New Research Reveals
<p>Adeadly contaminant stopped thousands of people’s hearts, resulting in their deaths, but nobody knew why. Then, in the 1950s, biochemist Fred Kummerow scraped open their arteries and found a lethal fat that had come from their food. As he learned, different fats in our diet are the determinants of health and disease, and control who lives and who doesn’t.</p>
<p>“It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat,” Arnold Schwarzenegger once said. How wrong he was. Yes, there are everyday fats like cooking oils, lard, and heavy cream. These are just the tip of the fat iceberg, as recent science has shown.</p>
<p>The heart attacks Kummerow studied were caused by a specific fat in processed foods, just one of many fatty molecules. But now another deep and enduring mystery has scientists scratching their heads: Why does Nature use thousands of fat molecules, when a small number should suffice?</p>
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