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- Are Fats Unhealthy? The Battle Over Dietary Guidelines http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/upshot/are-fats-unhealthy-the-battle-over-dietary-guidelines.html 57 comments
- Coconut oil 'as unhealthy as beef fat and butter' http://www.bbc.com/news/health-40300145 13 comments worldnews
- World's Most Unhealthy Breakfast - more fat than most of us need to eat every three days http://www.frostfirefizz.com/the-worlds-most-unhealthy-breakfast 177 comments reddit.com
- Fat Tax: Why we should Tax unhealthy Foods http://www.economicshelp.org/2007/07/fat-tax-why-we-should-tax-unhealthy.html 13 comments reddit.com
- Lack of Sleep Increases Unhealthy Abdominal Fat https://neurosciencenews.com/sleep-fat-20271/ 160 comments futurology
- Fat, unhealthy Americans threaten Trump’s defense surge https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/19/pentagon-buildup-troop-recruiting-shortage-351365 23 comments politics
- Study finds lack of sleep increases unhealthy abdominal fat https://www.healtheuropa.eu/study-finds-lack-of-sleep-increases-unhealthy-abdominal-fat/114461/ 3 comments science
- Tyler Herro says he is 5.5% body fat isn’t that super unhealthy? https://mobile.twitter.com/tomgreen99200/status/1283448751575760901 90 comments nba
- Dear R/India Think before you eat [junk food]. Alarming level of unhealthy fats in it. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Big-food-brands-hide-harmful-effects-claims-Delhi-based-NGO-Centre-for-Science-and-Environment/articleshow/12474800.cms 71 comments india
- The bacteria that live in and on us might be responsible for whether we are healthy or unhealthy, and even whether we are fat or thin http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15356016 26 comments science
- Too much body-fat leads to "malfunctioning adipose tissue" which turns healthier brown fat to unhealthy white fat. https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)01454-9 60 comments science
- 'Fat tax' on unhealthy foods could save thousands of lives, Oxford scientists http://pressesc.com/01184259901_fat_tax 29 comments reddit.com
- Body weight and body mass index alone are not enough to predict whether someone will develop a metabolic disease. Around a quarter of all obese individuals are healthy. Fat cells of unhealthy obese individuals can no longer burn fats as effectively, finds a new study. https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/02/obese-and-healthy.html 189 comments science
- Cooking certain vegetables (in particular garlic, onion, and leek) in vegetable oils at high temperatures can cause the oils to turn into trans fats, unhealthy fats linked to an increased risk of heart disease https://www.newsweek.com/vegetable-cooking-method-harmful-trans-fat-2005747 196 comments science
- The omega-3 fatty acid DHA may help protect the brain from an unhealthy diet’s effects by curbing fat-induced inflammation at the cellular source. A study found pre-treating brain cells with DHA protected against pro-inflammatory gene expression prompted by the saturated fatty acid palmitate. https://news.osu.edu/saturated-fat-may-interfere-with-creating-memories-in-aged-brain/ 25 comments science
- Eating too much fat and sugar as a child may alter your microbiome for life, even if you later learn to eat healthier. The new study is one of the first to show a significant decrease in the total number and diversity of gut bacteria in mature mice fed an unhealthy diet as juveniles. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-02/uoc--sfc020221.php 1804 comments science
- Supermarkets in England to be barred from displaying unhealthy food and drinks at checkouts or using them in buy one, get one free offers, as part of proposed government crackdown on obesity. No 10 also plans to stop multi-buy offers on foodstuffs high in sugar and fat from 2022. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/dec/28/unhealthy-snacks-to-be-banned-from-checkouts-supermarkets-in-england 4525 comments worldnews
- Supermarkets are designed to make us fat, say UK public health experts - A study by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) found that sweets, crisps and other unhealthy foods were placed far more prominently than other fare, making it harder for shoppers to resist. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/07/25/supermarkets-designed-make-us-fat-say-public-health-experts/ 31 comments worldnews
- The quality of the U.S. diet showed some modest improvement in the last decade in large measure because of a reduction in the consumption of unhealthy trans fats, but the gap in overall diet quality widened between the rich and the poor. http://media.jamanetwork.com/news-item/quality-of-u-s-diet-improves-gap-widens-for-quality-between-rich-and-poor/ 29 comments science
- Denmark abandons sugar and fat taxes: '.. the country’s tax on unhealthy, high-fat products had driven up prices and put jobs at risk.' http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/11/denmark-abandons-sugar-and-fat-taxes.html 7 comments worldnews