[supercat]

This is about removing a substance in foods that bonds the plaque onto your arteries just so a snack food can taste crispy.

Were saturated fats replaced by trans-fats because the trans-fats were superior or cheaper, or were they replaced because saturated fats have to be listed on food labels and are considered "bad" while trans-fats don't have to be listed?

[MarkM]

How about this? Don't put extra taxes on anything. Let people make their own choices about the food they eat. But they also have to live with the consequences of those choices.

[Shooter 2.5]

Trans fat [Hydragenated oils] is listed at the moment. It's buried in that long list of ingredients.

As far as the rest of your question as to why they're even in the ingredients, I don't know.

I found out about this the hard way. I exercised three times a week on a mountain bike, shot rifle and pistol on the weekends and watched what I ate. I have never smoked or drank.

I did eat a lot of snack foods in front of the TV, just like everyone else but I thought that "low fat" foods were safe.

I had a single blockage in one artery to my heart which was removed the first of last month. While they installed the main artery plug in my groin, I was "given" a hernia.

I go to therapy three times a week now.

[Larry Lucido]

Were saturated fats replaced by trans-fats because the trans-fats were superior or cheaper

Excerpted from this Atkins site:

"They [trans-fats] are constructed with hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils, which both contain fats never found in nature. Called trans fats—meaning transformed from their natural state—they are manufactured by heating vegetable oils at a high temperature and bombarding them with hydrogen gas to form more stable oils. The process creates trans fats constructed of twisted, unnatural molecules that the body cannot process. The food industry sticks these hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils into virtually all baked goods and other junk food.

The reasons are economic ones. Unlike butter, olive oil or other natural fats, trans fats have shelf life from now till doomsday. "