Banning Trans Fat in Processed Foods but Not Animal Fat
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2017-06-21

After the trans fat oil ban, the only major sources of trans fat remaining will be from meat and dairy.

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If people want to eat trans fat isn’t that their right? Only if they’re informed for the risks. Stay tuned for a video coming up in a few entitled The Food Industry Wants the Public Confused About Nutrition (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-food-industry-wants-the-public-confused-about-nutrition).

For more on the industry pushback, see my last video Controversy Over the Trans Fat Ban (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Controversy-Over-the-Trans-Fat-Ban). Update: In 2022, I released a new video on this subject. Check out How We Won the Fight to Ban Trans Fat. (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-we-won-the-fight-to-ban-trans-fat/)

There does not appear to be a safe level of exposure to trans fat (or saturated fat and dietary cholesterol for that matter). 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/).

If you find these videos about industry influence on public policy compelling, check out my many others, including:
• Eggs and Cholesterol: Patently False and Misleading Claims (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/eggs-and-cholesterol-patently-false-and-misleading-claims/)
• Who Determines if Food Additives are Safe? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/who-determines-if-food-additives-are-safe/)
• Collaboration with the New Vectors of Disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/collaboration-with-the-new-vectors-of-disease/)
• Sprinkling Doubt: Taking Sodium Skeptics with a Pinch of Salt (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/sprinkling-doubt:-taking-sodium-skeptics-with-a-pinch-of-salt)
• The Healthy Food Movement: Strength in Unity (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-healthy-food-movement-strength-in-unity)

Note, the concept of raising or lowering HDL (so-called “good” cholesterol) playing a causal role in heart disease has come into question. Videos coming up—stay tuned! 

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