Controversy Over the Trans Fat Ban

Описание: The food industry fought tooth and nail to retain partially hydrogenated oils, even though they were killing 50,000 Americans a year.

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Once added trans fats are banned, the only major source in the American diet will be the natural trans fats found in animal fat. More on this in next video: Banning Trans Fat in Processed Foods but Not Animal Fat (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Banni..., an update on my earlier video Trans Fat in Meat and Dairy (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/trans....

Ideally how much trans fat should we eat a day? Zero, and the same with saturated fat and cholesterol: Trans Fat, Saturated Fat, and Cholesterol: Tolerable Upper Intake of Zero (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/trans....

More on industry hysterics and manipulation in:
• The McGovern Report (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-m...)
• Seeing Red No. 3 Coloring to Dye For (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/seein...)
• Who Says Eggs Aren’t Healthy or Safe? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/who-s...)
• Sprinkling Doubt: Taking Sodium Skeptics with a Pinch of Salt (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/sprin...)
• Big Food Using the Tobacco Industry Playbook (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/big-f...)
• How Smoking in 1956 is Like Eating in 2017 (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-s...)

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