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8 Surprisingly Bad Foods for Your Heart

Pie

Pie

That flaky, golden-brown pie crust may taste like perfection, but the ingredients used to achieve that taste (butter or margarine, shortening, cream, whole milk) can be high in both artery-clogging saturated fat and cholesterol. And shortening that traditional dough recipes call for is high in dangerous trans fat.

By Rachel Meltzer Warren, MS, RD. Published February 7, 2012. Rachel is a New York City-based nutrition writer, educator and counselor, and owner of Nutritionista Communication + Consulting.