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The Food and Drug Administration quietly decided last week that food manufacturers can safely use a trans fat in their recipes. I can almost hear some of you asking: How can that be? Doesn’t everyone know by now that such fats constitute a health hazard? In the past decade or so, the nutrition-research community has effectively driven home the message that trans fats are bad. As bad as — if not worse than — saturated fats, at least in terms of health. Communities around the nation have begun responding with proposals for local bans on the use in restaurant fare...

INTRODUCTON:This book is about social class. A excellent, well written, professional review written can be found HERE For those wanting to review the author’s professional and personal biography, you can find that HERE The purpose of this book review is to introduce a few basic concepts. To do this I have summarized and simplified a complex and nuanced book. Accordingly, this book review can not replace the actual text. There are two matters that need brief mention before I begin. First, the author is not only a British writer but a public intellectual. His works include both fiction and non-fiction....