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| − | + | Nearly one in 10 processed food products sold in the United States has trans fat in it 鈥?but you鈥檇 never know it by glancing at the nutritional label on the back of the package, according to released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. | |
| − | + | The paper underscores the need to ban synthetically produced from all food products, public health experts said. Trans fat, which is made from a manufacturing process in which hydrogen is added to oil to make it solid, has been linked to a variety of health problems, 聽but most directly to worsening <a href=http://www.museosangennaro.com/Public/anel.php> Christian Louboutin Shoes UK</a> cholesterol levels. Even relatively small doses of just a couple of grams a day can increase so-called bad cholesterols and reduces good cholesterols, 聽studies have shown. | |
| + | Consumption of trans fat has 聽in the United States since the first major warnings emerged from doctors and public health authorities a decade ago. And several state and regional bans 鈥?including one in California 鈥?have removed trans fat from foods sold in restaurants and bakeries. | ||
| + | But trans fat is still remarkably pervasive in the American food supply, <a href=http://www.alportico.net/gosoc.php>true religion jeans</a> according to the new study, which was done by the . | ||
| + | The study analyzed nutritional data for 4,340 products. Researchers found that 391 of those products, or about 9 percent, listed partially hydrogenated oils 鈥?the main source of manufactured trans fat 鈥?in their ingredient information. But 330 of those products claimed to have 0 grams of trans fat per serving on their nutritional label. | ||
| + | The labeling may seem misleading, but it鈥檚 allowed under a federal loophole that states products with fewer than 0.6 grams per serving can claim to have 0 trans fat. And that could be dangerous for unaware consumers, doctors say. A fairly small bag of potato chips, for example, could have up to 0.5 grams of trans fat per serving, and if that bag contains three servings, a consumer could easily eat 1.5 grams of trans fat and not even know it. | ||
| + | 鈥淭he sense is that trans fat is mostly gone from foods. And what we see is there鈥檚 still a lot being used in packaged foods,鈥?said Christine Curtis, assistant commissioner in the New York City health department and an author of the study. 鈥淲e think consumers are unknowingly consuming artificial trans fat and <a href=http://www.museosangennaro.com/Public/wdluk.php>Louboutin Shoes UK</a> the recommendation is to consume as little as possible.鈥? | ||
| + | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is currently that would officially deem partially hydrogenated oils as unsafe, thereby forcing them to be removed from all food products. In the meantime, public health and nutrition experts say, consumers should be wary of any processed foods 鈥?and read labels very carefully. If a product claims to have 0 trans fat, it鈥檚 time to read the ingredient list and look for the words 鈥減artially hydrogenated鈥?or the letters 鈥淧HO鈥?(for partially hydrogenated oils). | ||
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@@@ Nearly one in 10 processed food products sold in the United States has trans fat in it 鈥?but you鈥檇 never know it by glancing at the nutritional label on the back of the package, according to released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The paper underscores the need to ban synthetically produced from all food products, public health experts said. Trans fat, which is made from a manufacturing process in which hydrogen is added to oil to make it solid, has been linked to a variety of health problems, 聽but most directly to worsening <a href=http://www.museosangennaro.com/Public/anel.php> Christian Louboutin Shoes UK</a> cholesterol levels. Even relatively small doses of just a couple of grams a day can increase so-called bad cholesterols and reduces good cholesterols, 聽studies have shown. Consumption of trans fat has 聽in the United States since the first major warnings emerged from doctors and public health authorities a decade ago. And several state and regional bans 鈥?including one in California 鈥?have removed trans fat from foods sold in restaurants and bakeries. But trans fat is still remarkably pervasive in the American food supply, <a href=http://www.alportico.net/gosoc.php>true religion jeans</a> according to the new study, which was done by the . The study analyzed nutritional data for 4,340 products. Researchers found that 391 of those products, or about 9 percent, listed partially hydrogenated oils 鈥?the main source of manufactured trans fat 鈥?in their ingredient information. But 330 of those products claimed to have 0 grams of trans fat per serving on their nutritional label. The labeling may seem misleading, but it鈥檚 allowed under a federal loophole that states products with fewer than 0.6 grams per serving can claim to have 0 trans fat. And that could be dangerous for unaware consumers, doctors say. A fairly small bag of potato chips, for example, could have up to 0.5 grams of trans fat per serving, and if that bag contains three servings, a consumer could easily eat 1.5 grams of trans fat and not even know it. 鈥淭he sense is that trans fat is mostly gone from foods. And what we see is there鈥檚 still a lot being used in packaged foods,鈥?said Christine Curtis, assistant commissioner in the New York City health department and an author of the study. 鈥淲e think consumers are unknowingly consuming artificial trans fat and <a href=http://www.museosangennaro.com/Public/wdluk.php>Louboutin Shoes UK</a> the recommendation is to consume as little as possible.鈥? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is currently that would officially deem partially hydrogenated oils as unsafe, thereby forcing them to be removed from all food products. In the meantime, public health and nutrition experts say, consumers should be wary of any processed foods 鈥?and read labels very carefully. If a product claims to have 0 trans fat, it鈥檚 time to read the ingredient list and look for the words 鈥減artially hydrogenated鈥?or the letters 鈥淧HO鈥?(for partially hydrogenated oils).
