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Tyler Cymet
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BIOGRAPHY

Chief of Clinical Education, American Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine. His contributions to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Global Health (2008) formed the basis of his contributions to Britannica.

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Saturated fat, a fatty acid in which the hydrocarbon molecules have a hydrogen atom on every carbon and thus are fully hydrogenated. (By way of comparison, the hydrocarbon molecules of unsaturated fats have two carbons that share double or triple bonds and are therefore not completely saturated…
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