Got a Bad Ticker? Bacterial Fats Could Be to Blame

By now, most of us know that being overweight and a poor diet, often high in saturated fats, will send us down the path toward cardiovascular disease. Yet, in recent years, rising evidence has pointed to additional factors that may unduly influence the development of atherosclerosis. Case in point is the results from a new study by investigators at the University of Connecticut (UConn), which suggests that the fatty molecules clogging your arteries might come not only from what you eat but from