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Some processed vegetable and seed oils — the kind found in everyday foods like margarine and baked goods — may not be as bad for your heart as once thought, a new study suggests.

After a carefully controlled six-week trial involving 47 healthy adults, researchers from King's College London and Maastricht University in the Netherlands said they found no significant differences in health markers when participants ate muffins and spreads made with either palm-rich or fully hydrogenated seed-oil "interesterified" (IE) fats.

After checking the participants' cholesterol, blood sugar, liver fat and inflammation, scientists found that cholesterol and other heart-health markers stayed about the same for both types of fats.

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