Organizations around the world have stepped up their actions against trans fat following New Yorkâs move to ban anything more than tiny amounts of trans fat at the cityâs some 20,000 restaurants. Denmark limits the trans fat content of food to 2 percent of the fat. Global food companies like Nestle, Kraft and PepsiCo have also cut out or drastically reduced the amount of trans fat present in their products. Trans fat is now blamed as bad stuff that increases LDL (bad cholesterol) and simultaneously reduces HDL (good cholesterol). Foods with trans fat are everywhere. Besides candy, noodles, cookies, chips, there are hundreds of processed supermarket products contain it in different amounts. And the worst thing is that these foods are both favored by children and a View the rest of this article
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
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