[E. Pluribus Unum]

The official US food pyramid is a joke. Positions are sold to the highest bidder. The trans-fat smoke screen is Freon all over again. Just as Dow's patent was about to run out, it magically became illegal, granting Dow the patent on its successor.

There's lots of money to be made here, and the people who stand to make it are buying the laws to give them their monopoly.

[Dr. Sivana]

Positions are sold to the highest bidder.
Yup. Ice Cream bought a spot in the 1940s. Heck, butter and magarine even got to share a food group!

[Dayatdabeach1791]

I know of no clinical study in the medical literature supporting the idea that a diet that includes trans-fats is more likely to cause you to have a heart attack. The FDA fails to meet their own standard of proof. Some diets like the Mediteranean have been shown to have some benefit in reducing heart attacks and that could mean that eating a diet with a greater proportion of unsaturated fats may be beneficial. If somone knows of good clinical information relating specifically to diets containing some trans-fats causing heart attacks, please post it.