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AHA calls on US to pay attention to "bad fats" - trans and saturated.
As the USA moves to significantly reduce trans fat consumption, the American Heart Association is launching "Face The Fats," an educational campaign to teach consumers how to minimize trans fat in their diet, while avoiding the unintended health consequence of defaulting to more saturated fat. The campaign features an "edutainment" web site where the Bad Fats Brothers - named Sat and Trans - come to life, an interactive fat calculator and recipes developed by celebrity chef Alton Brown.
Among the campaign's top priorities is to encourage replacement of trans fat-laden partially hydrogenated vegetable oils with oils high in unsaturated fats - monounsaturated and polyunsaturated - as stated in the April 10 issue of Circulation: Journal of the…
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- Magazine article from: Heart Advisor April 1, 2007 700+ words
...foods that contain very little trans fat and are low in saturated fat and cholesterol." Current guidelines...eliminate cholesterol and reduce the saturated fat. Read labels carefully Amounts of trans fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol are listed...
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- Magazine article from: Choice (Chippendale, Australia) April 1, 2005 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: Nutrition Action Healthletter Liebman, Bonnie March 1, 2006 700+ words
...you'd expect some saturated fat (and no trans fat) from the cheese...supply 6 grams of trans fat (and 4 grams of saturated fat) to each six-cup...and the 9 grams of trans fat, 10 grams of saturated fat, and 890 milligrams...
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- Magazine article from: Candy Industry Rehan, Kelly October 1, 2006 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: India Business Insight March 21, 2007 700+ words
...to mention the presence, if any, and level of trans fat and saturated fat on product labels. According to the current rules...mention only ingredients and preservatives used. Trans fat is an unhealthy fat that forms when liquid oils...
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- Newspaper article from: Health & Medicine Week August 20, 2001 700+ words
...women to a diet high in trans fat, (9.2% of calories from trans fat), or a high saturated fat diet, in which the...margarine only: the trans fat came mostly from partially...soybean oil, and the saturated fat came from palm kernel...
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- Magazine article from: Food Management Rowe, Megan April 1, 2006 700+ words
...USA has launched an expansive range of zero grams trans fat, low in saturated fat potato products. More than 80 cuts and styles contain 0g trans fat per serving. A new web resource,www.mccainusa...
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- Press release article from: Business Wire August 21, 2007 700+ words
...canola oil, a trans fat-free cooking...reduction of saturated fat, which provides...new, zero trans fat cooking oil...reduction of saturated fat allows our...in a zero trans fat canola oil and reduced saturated fat frying oil...
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- Newspaper article from: Medical Update Brown, Edwin W. August 1, 1998 700+ words
We assume that all of our readers are well aware that the saturated fat in red meat, butter, and other dairy products raises the...saturated fats. Unfortunately, the FDA does not require trans-fat content to be identified as such (although this may soon...
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- Magazine article from: Health Science March 22, 2003 700+ words
...do you know? Foods high in saturated fat and trans fat are consistently associated...contain over 10 times as much saturated fat as fish and white meat chicken...populations that eat diets low in saturated fat. Add the carcinogenic potential...
Source: HighBeam Research, AHA calls on US to pay attention to "bad fats" - trans and saturated.
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