The team of researchers looked at well over 30,000 women...

A study that was done at the Harvard School of Public Health of Boston shows that women whose diet consists of a lot of Trans fats have a three times greater risk of developing heart disease as those who do not consume Trans fat on a regular basis. The researchers said that their study shows exactly how bad Trans fats is for you and also makes it clear that Trans fat is far worse for you then normal saturated fat. The researchers said that this study should encourage people, food producers, and restaurants to be more aware of the dangers of Trans fats.

Dr. Frank Hu who was the lead author of the research is a professor of nutrition and epidemiology and his study is likely to be made known to the general public in the journal of the American Heart Association named Circulation. The amount of Trans fat that people eat has risen drastically over the last few decades as so much food is now processed. It is found in chips, cakes, almost all fast food and is said to be responsible for some heart attacks and strokes.

The way that this research differed from previous research projects involving Trans fat is that it did not base its results on feedback from the study participants but instead the researchers studied Trans fats levels by looking at red blood cells in the participants. Professor Hu explained that as red blood cells have a life of six months or even more they could measure the Trans fat in these cells and thus work out how much Trans fats the individual participants had been consuming over the last six months.

The team of researchers looked at well over 30,000 women who agreed to supply blood samples for this new search. The women were put into different categories depending on how much Trans fat was found in their blood cells and the group that had the largest amount of Trans fat in their blood were seen to have a three times bigger risk of heart disease when compared to the women who had the lowest amount of Trans fat in their blood stream.