Trans Fat

I'm just back from Columbia Memorial Hospital in Hudson where they're going TRANS FAT FREE. The oil has been linked to helping heart disease progress by reducing your good cholestoral - HDL- and increasing the bad stuff - LDL.

While we'll never get all the trans fat out of our diet - some of it occurs naturally in meat and dairy products, we can get rid of the added fat by reading product labels.
But be alert as trans fats hide in produts you wouldn't expect - muffin mixes, canned puddings even saltines.

And when you find products that are trans fat free check the ingredients carefully as some manufacturers are increasing the sugar content to keep the taste.