How to avoid trans fat and food labels?

There is a lot of talk about trans fat. It is pretty well know that trans fat is not 'healthy". It is important to understand how to read food labels to know which foods have "trans fats" and which foods don't contain "trans fat". Fats are divided into diffrent groups Saturated Fats and Trans fat, which are not good for you. Monounsaturated Fats and Polyunsaturated Fats are not trans fats.

Trans fat is a manmade product. Trans fat is the created by a process called hydrogenation. Hydrogenation is when hydrogen is added to vegetable oil, for the sole purpose of extending the self life and the flavor of foods that contain certain fats.

Trans fat is found in many types of processed foods.