Sun, Feb-29-04, 21:15
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Originally Posted by Lisa N
I recently read in another post that a study was published in 1997 in the New England Journal of Medicine that showed that consuming as little as 1 gram of transfat per day over a period of 10 years conferred a 20% increase in risk for cardiovascular disease and that the average person consumed at least 10 grams of transfat per day. That's a little scary.  |
Thanks. But why are food manufacturers still using transfats in their new products if the danger was so undisputable? I dont think it could cost them significally more if they use something else especially in the products which requires small amount of shortening. They use the term "Partially hydrogenated" instead of "hydrogenated". Does this make a difference?
People have actually been consuming much more than 10 grams of transfats a day over the last 2-3 decades. Margarine has been considered to be healthier than butter because it is cholesterol free.
How many grams of transfats will a person be taking if he fries his eggs in the morning in margarine, eats hamburger and french fries at lunch which have been fried in margarine, cooks his dinner with margarine, butter his bread with it and eats plenty of snacks during the day which have been made with margarine?
Margarine is still selling good. So, there must be plenty of people who are still believing that it is not bad for them.
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