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.
The Mediterranean diet is made of yummy natural stuff-like olive oil, fish, veggies. The idiots used to think the olive oil was “bad”, but now it is good-and the French put about 1/2 pound of butter in everything they cook, and wash it down with a half bottle of wine and they aren’t obese or dropping dead prematurely, either.
I think the issue is that the trans-fats are not all natural, but enhanced is the reason they are not healthy, but I don’t eat the stuff, so it is just my take.