LDL-P Drops by 27nmol/L With Every 1% Reduction in Trans Fat Intake. Plus: "Trans-Fat Free" Does Not Mean Risk Free!
In contrast to the message "trans fats = bad". The information that cookies and bakery, not cooking oil, margarine, chips & co are the main trans fat offenders in our diet has reached only a very small group of people. There are only few 'nutritional wisdoms' out there that are actually 'wise'. One of them is the notion that "trans-fats are bad for you". By now that's something every fifthgrader knows. What most people don't know, though, is how bad "bad" actually is and whether the small amounts of trans fatty acids, the industry is cleverly hiding in their products by downsizing them in a way that "one serving"contains less than 0.5g of transfats - that's the magic loophole in the FDA regulations according to which transfats don't have to appear on the label, as long as the total amount per serving is less than 0.5g. The question I would like you to remember, when you read more about the most recent st...