Most of the previous links are saying, "Everything is hokey-dokey." And they're doing it by looking at very short-term studies and reading specific markers. Markers that -- it now turns out -- don't actually correlate all that well with heard disease. Oops.

The one I added shows that interesterified fats not only raise the LDL/HDL ratio, they also significantly boost blood glucose (20%) and depress insulin (22%). It's bad shit.

Oh, and speaking of LDL ... it turns out there's a difference between large-particle LDL and small-particle LDL. Saturated fat (meat) boosts large particle, which is why meat eaters show higher LDL/HDL ratios. But it's small particle LDL that causes heart disease. Large particle LDL is neutral. Take this news with a grain of salt (heh) because the company paying for that research makes a test that distinguishes between large and small particle LDL.