It takes much more effort to digest and extract the energy from fat than from sweet foods but the body just loves to make and store fat, as fat is much more adept at producing energy than carbohydrates.
After all the bad news about trans-fats, you might be relieved to know that there is one class of trans-fats which has been claimed to be actually beneficial to human health – they are known as conjugated linoleic acids (CLA) and are a family of around 30 isomers of a fatty acid known as linoleic acid.
Isomers are molecules with the identical atomic constituents of another molecule – but with the atomic bonds arranged differently.
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