Thursday, October 01, 2015

Is The Government's War On Trans-Fat Misguided, Too?

Is The Government's War On Trans-Fat Misguided, Too? - Investors.com:
"Later this year, the federal government is expected to remove dietary cholesterol from its list of bad foods. 
The expert panel that advises the government on these guidelines concluded there's no reason to be concerned about "overconsumption."
In other words, all those federal warnings stretching over the past four decades about how eating eggs and other cholesterol-rich food would clog your arteries were wrong.
Now the federal government could be making the same mistake with trans-fat.
...But a study published last week in the European Heart Journal found that low levels of artificial trans-fat didn't appear to pose a health risk, while naturally occurring trans-fat could help protect the heart.
As one of the study's authors noted, "it is a fairly common phenomenon: Some things are toxic at high levels, but we can live with them at low levels."
...Don't be surprised then, if a few decades from now the federal government — reluctantly — admits that its current campaign against trans-fats was just as misguided as its decades long war on cholesterol."

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