Even when people ate a lot of artificial trans fats—way more than normal—their blood proteins didn’t change much, so these fats might not mess with the body’s protein signals in a big way.

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A high intake of industrial or ruminant trans fatty acids does not affect the plasma proteome in healthy men

Randomized Controlled Trial

Human

2011 Oct

Scientists gave men a diet with a lot of industrial trans fats for three weeks and checked their blood proteins — nothing changed, meaning even high amounts of these fats didn’t mess with their blood protein levels.

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A high intake of industrial or ruminant trans fatty acids does not affect the plasma proteome in healthy men

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DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201100163

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