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Please hold the trans fat.(EDITOR'S NOTE)
If ever there was a buzzword in health and nutrition it's trans fat. Seemingly more feared than bird flu, trans fat finally appears to be finding its way out of our country's food supply. Recently, as you may have heard, the New York City Board of Health voted unanimously to outlaw anything less than a scant amount of trans fat in the city's panoply of restaurants. And a large health care chain, MedAssets, is teaming up with the natural product distributor United Natural Foods Incorporated (UNFI) to deliver organic and trans-fat-free meals to some 2000 US hospitals.
February, which is American Heart Month, is the ideal time to take a closer look at trans fat. As author Vera Tweed mentions in her provocative article, "Have a Healthier Heart," p. 44, "These unhealthy fats, even in small amounts, play havoc with our arteries." Tweed goes on to explain how exactly trans fat does its damage to the heart and rest of the body, and she includes a box, "How Much Trans Fat Do We Eat?" ...
- Stocking a trans-free pantry: a laudable goal for a healthier heart.
- Magazine article from: Environmental Nutrition Klausner, Andrea November 1, 2003 700+ words
...in your diet; others recommend that trans fat intake be close to zero, contending...While a few packaged foods already sport trans fat information (mostly those that boast...contains liquid oils. * Look for the new trans fat listing (just below saturated fat on...
- Have a healthier heart: love your heart by reading up on the latest news on...
- Magazine article from: Better Nutrition Tweed, Vera February 1, 2007 700+ words
...Eliminating these sweeteners along with processed food and trans fat, while adding healthy fats, wholesome food and regular exercise...all part of the solution, along with the fight supplements. Trans fat, in the form of hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils...
- Trans fat timetable: processors reformulating, relabeling to meet approaching...
- Magazine article from: Dairy Field Smith, Pamela Accetta September 1, 2005 700+ words
...2006, federal deadline for including trans fat content on Nutrition Facts labels of...claim "zero" on the side panel's trans fat line, there is no time like the present...others sport Nutrition Facts panels with trans fat listings in place. According to a Hotline...
- Trans fat labeling.(Guest Editorial)
- Magazine article from: Family Practice News Hu, Frank B. September 15, 2003 700+ words
Trans fat is one of the most dangerous players...Administration in July to require labeling for trans fat on packaged foods by 2006 was a very...some physicians, are unaware of what trans fat is and the harm it can cause. Package...
- Target trans fat to reduce heart risk: limit your intake of trans fat and...
- Magazine article from: Food & Fitness Advisor July 1, 2007 700+ words
...the unprecedented step of banning trans fat in restaurants? Because it has...Circulation offers more evidence of trans fat's deleterious effects. Researchers discovered that dietary intake of trans fat correlated with trans fatty acid...
- Trans fat rules: new FDA regulation on trans fat labeling spurs confusion among...
- Magazine article from: Stagnito's New Products Magazine Dahm, Lori August 1, 2003 700+ words
Trans fat is making headlines, as the new FDA regulation for trans fat labeling was announced in early July. Food companies...responding to the news. Some are voluntarily labeling trans fat content already (compliance is not required until...
- Trans fat battle heating up; As New York City bans the unhealthy additive, some...
- Newspaper article from: Sarasota Herald Tribune December 25, 2006 700+ words
...whittle@heraldtribune.com SARASOTA -- Trans fat is unwelcome at Simon Kirby's veggie...Florida food vendor shares his distaste for trans fat. "America's been growing up with...America's going to have to change." Trans fat became a source of debate from Simon...
- Trans fat trumped: with the spotlight on the dangers of trans fat, the meat and...
- Magazine article from: The National Provisioner White, Lisa December 1, 2006 700+ words
...recent enemy that has been singled out is trans fat. It has become so much the enemy of...Health voted on Dec. 5, 2006, to ban trans fat from any use in city restaurants after July 2008 (trans fat-containing frying oils would have to...
- Trans fat war gains local allies.
- News wire article from: Tribune (San Luis Obispo, CA) January 2, 2007 700+ words
...conscious clientele by serving up food free of trans fat. But a war being waged against this particularly...unhealthy fat may soon give customers more trans fat-free options. More and more people know that trans fat is unhealthy and seek restaurants that...
- FDA trans fat ruling impacts food & beverage manufacturers: new nutrition facts...
- Magazine article from: Frozen Food Digest October 1, 2003 700+ words
...result of the FDA's long-awaited trans fat announcement, all food and beverage manufacturers will be required to identify trans fat content on their nutrition facts panels...that food products be analyzed for their trans fat content, and their panels be revised...
