Trans Fats harm, danger, side effects, increased risk for heart disease and stroke, replace them with healthy foods and oils, by Ray Sahelian, M.D. April 12 2016
Fats are not the enemy. Make healthy choices to decrease your risk of heart disease.
History. Margarine originated with the discovery by French chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul in 1813 of margaric acid (itself named after the pearly deposits of the fatty acid from Greek μαργαρίτης or μάργαρον (margaritēs / márgaron), meaning pearl-oyster or pearl, or μαργαρίς (margarís), meaning palm-tree, hence the
Nov 07, 2013 · Trans fat was the first man-made fat to become part of our food supply more than a century ago when a German scientist presented Procter & Gamble with ways to add hydrogen to cottonseed oil. Because the product looked like lard (though originally intended for soap), P&G started selling it in 1911 as
U.S. food manufacturers have three years to remove the primary source of artificial trans fat—partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs)—from their …
May 31, 2012 · The New York City Soda Ban, and a Brief History of Bloomberg’s Nudges. Nothing like a tall, cool drink in the heat of summer, right? Not if it’s a sugar-sweetened soda, and not if you’re in New York City.
Trans fat, or trans-unsaturated fatty acids, trans fatty acids, are a type of unsaturated fat that occur in small amounts in nature, but became widely produced industrially from vegetable fats for use in margarine, snack food, packaged baked goods, and frying fast food starting in the 1950s.
Nov 07, 2013 · On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it is moving toward significantly limiting–more or less banning–trans fats …