Posted on 11/09/2013 1:33:08 PM PST by Rusty0604
With a new FDA proposal to outlaw trans fats, this may be the end of what was once considered “a great boon to Americans’ arteries.” But surprisingly, science has only been against trans fats for the past few decades. Through the late 1980s, animal fat substitutes like Crisco and margarine were all the rage, and for a brief moment were even considered a health product. Here’s the story of how America fell in love with, and then quickly slid away from, hydrogenated oils. In the 1980s, some scientists began to associate heart disease with saturated fats, and in response, groups such as the Center for Science in the Public Interest and the National Heart Savers Association (NHSA) began to hound manufacturers for “poisoning America ... by using saturated fats,” and as a result “nearly all targeted firms responded by replacing saturated fats with trans fats,” as David Schleifer wrote in 2012 for the journal Technology and Culture.
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I prefer cis fats myself, never took to the trans isomers.
If this were a dating website I would respond to your profile, IF you were the correct gender which I don’t think you are, but kudos to you anyway!
Yes -- and always will. And many a fool has died depriving himself of eggs and bacon till the very end. Actually [and I've thought about this at some length], I think we're all gonna die.
Heh. Does that mean I should've made my screen name "BfloPerson"?
I’m with you. Turn the government’s dumbass food pyramid upside down.
Color me embarrassed, I didn’t notice your screen name. I don’t know what lead me to think you are female. I just want to make it perfectly clear that I am not a lesbian.
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