Is saturated fat really bad?

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 19:10:10 GMT, "Ray K." <[email hidden]>
posted:

Quoted message said:

A normal digestive system breaks our food into the simplest
building blocks before absorption occurs. Protein is
"disassembled" into amino acids, and fats of all kinds are
"disassembled" into fatty acids and glycerol. So what's
difference if we eat saturated, polyunsaturated, or
monounsaturated if they are all broken into the same end
products before absorption? Why should saturated or
transfats be more dangerous?

It's the fatty acids that are saturated or not.

Moosh:) said:

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 19:10:10 GMT, "Ray K."
<[email hidden]> posted:

Quoted message said:

A normal digestive system breaks our food into the
simplest building blocks before absorption occurs. Protein
is "disassembled" into amino acids, and fats of all kinds
are "disassembled" into fatty acids and glycerol. So
what's difference if we eat saturated, polyunsaturated, or
monounsaturated if they are all broken into the same end
products before absorption? Why should saturated or
transfats be more dangerous?

It's the fatty acids that are saturated or not.

Thanks.

Ray K.