Trans Fat Dangers
Trans Fat Banned in Restaurants in CA
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signs a bill that prohibits restaurants from using trans fat in any form of fat including oil, margarine and shortening!
The State of California becomes the first state to ban the use of artificial trans fat!
SATURDAY July 26, 2008 (foodconsumer.org) — The State of California on Friday became the first state to ban [...]
McDonalds Uses 0 Grams Trans Fat (I doubt it)
This article http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24777284/ states that McDonalds is switching over to a zero-trans-fat cooking oil with zero grams of trans fat per labeled serving.
However, the FDA lets food manufacturers claim zero grams of trans fat as long as the product has less than half a gram per serving.
So beware, just avoid foods that could contain trans [...]
Trans Fat Makes You Fat
In his book, UltraMetabolism, by Dr Mark Hyman he says:
Highly processed and nutrient-devoid ingredients “pretend” to be food and can interfere with your metabolism, according to Hyman. Trans fats — often lurking in cookies, crackers, margarine, and fast food — are well known for raising total and LDL (“bad”) cholesterol and lowering HDL (“good”) cholesterol. They also [...]
Trans Fat is the Reason for Health Problems
How it All Started:
Trans fat was introduced into the American diet in the 1980’s with the “fat free” fad. Because we realized that saturated fat was bad for us, fodd manufactured began using trans fat instead. Thrity years later, we realize many of the problems we had today, are due to trans fat.
What is Trans Fat?
Trans [...]
