Flashback Friday: Controversy Over the Trans Fat Ban
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2021-07-16

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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Now that added trans fats are banned, the only major source in the American diet are the natural trans fats found in animal fat. For more on this, see Banning Trans Fat in Processed Foods but Not Animal Fat (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Banning-Trans-Fat-in-Processed-Foods-but-Not-Animal-Fat) and Trans Fat in Meat and Dairy (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/trans-fat-in-meat-and-dairy/).

Ideally, how much trans fat should we eat a day? Zero, and the same goes for saturated fat and cholesterol. See Trans Fat, Saturated Fat, and Cholesterol: Tolerable Upper Intake of Zero (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/trans-fat-saturated-fat-and-cholesterol-tolerable-upper-intake-of-zero/), Good, Great, and Bad Killer Fats (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/good-great-bad-killer-fats/), and Lipotoxity: How Saturated Fat Raises Blood Sugar (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/lipotoxicity-how-saturated-fat-raises-blood-sugar/).

More on industry hysterics and manipulation in:
• The McGovern Report (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-mcgovern-report/)
• Seeing Red No. 3: Coloring to Dye For (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/seeing-red-no-3-coloring-to-dye-for/)
• Who Says Eggs Aren’t Healthy or Safe? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/who-says-eggs-arent-healthy-or-safe/)
• Sprinkling Doubt: Taking Sodium Skeptics with a Pinch of Salt (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/sprinkling-doubt:-taking-sodium-skeptics-with-a-pinch-of-salt)
• Big Food Using the Tobacco Industry Playbook (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/big-food-using-the-tobacco-industry-playbook/)
• How Smoking in 1956 Is Like Eating in 2017 (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-smoking-in-the-50s-is-like-eating-today)
• The Saturated Fat Studies: Buttering Up the Public (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-saturated-fat-studies-buttering-up-the-public/)
• Sugar Industry Attempts to Manipulate the Science (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/sugar-industry-attempts-to-manipulate-the-science/)
• How the Dairy Industry Designs Misleading Studies (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-the-dairy-industry-designs-misleading-studies/)
• The Food Industry Wants the Public Confused About Nutrition (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-food-industry-wants-the-public-confused-about-nutrition/)

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