The food industry fought tooth and nail to retain partially hydrogenated oils, even though they were killing 50,000 Americans a year.
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Once added trans fats are banned, the only major source in the American diet will be the natural trans fats found in animal fat. More on this in next video: Banning Trans Fat in Processed Foods but Not Animal Fat ( an update on my earlier video Trans Fat in Meat and Dairy (
Ideally how much trans fat should we eat a day? Zero, and the same with saturated fat and cholesterol: Trans Fat, Saturated Fat, and Cholesterol: Tolerable Upper Intake of Zero (
More on industry hysterics and manipulation in:
• The McGovern Report (
• Seeing Red No. 3 Coloring to Dye For (
• Who Says Eggs Aren’t Healthy or Safe? (
• Sprinkling Doubt: Taking Sodium Skeptics with a Pinch of Salt (
• Big Food Using the Tobacco Industry Playbook (
• How Smoking in 1956 is Like Eating in 2017 (
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