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"Most of us are pretty wary of eating too many helpings of fried food--not only are they calorie bombs, they also usually contain partially hydrogenated oils (trans fats) and saturated fat that can increase your chance of heart disease. But could the results of a new study give us permission to fry--healthily? Kind of! A study published in the British Medical Journal has revealed that eating fried foods may not put you at increased risk for coronary heart disease... if they&amp;#x27;re fried in olive oil or sunflower oil. The study tracked 40,757 Spanish adults for 11 years. On average, the participants ate about 5 ounces of food that had been fried in olive oil or sunflower oil. During the 11 years, there were just 606 incidents of heart disease. Report the researchers: &amp;quot;In a Mediterranean country where olive and sunflower oils are the most commonly used fats for frying, and where large amounts of fried foods are consumed both at and away from home, no association was observed between fried food consumption and the risk of coronary heart disease or death.&amp;quot; I&amp;#x27;m not a huge fan of fried foods in general--it kind of all tastes the same after awhile, doesn&amp;#x27;t it? (Though, ohmygoodness, there&amp;#x27;s a local restaurant I love that makes the most divine fried olives!)--but I&amp;#x27;d feel slightly better about having a piece here and there if I didn&amp;#x27;t have to worry about trans fat. Would you? Do you like fried food or do you actively avoid it? What&amp;#x27;s your favorite kind? More on fried food facts: * Remember the McDLT? The Country&amp;#x27;s Biggest Fast Food Failures * OMG: There Is Really Such a Thing as Fried Butter Balls * Craving a Burger &amp;amp; Fries? Um, This Might Make You Change Your Mind More Ways to Get Glamour Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter Add us to your iGoogle homepage Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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