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Nutrition
Trans fat: Bad news for trans fatty acids
Weve all been guilty of it from time to timegrabbing a ready meal for dinner instead of cooking something healthy.
As our lives become increasingly busier, it becomes easier to rely on precooked meals. But these meals, even the healthy brands arent necessarily good for us.
One of the most harmful ingredients that we need to watch out for in ready meals is trans fatty acids. Thats why news from Marks & Spencer is so exciting.
M&S pledges to remove dangerous trans fats from their food
Marks & Spencer recently announced that they were going to ban man-made fats from their foods. They pledged to have them removed by next month.
This is good news as these fats ? known as hydrogenated vegetable fats or trans fatty acids (TFA) ? have been linked to heart disease, narrowing of blood vessels and diabetes.
In the US, many food companies have announced that they are to stop using such fats and the US government has ordered companies to detail TFAs on food packages.
Here in Britain, the Food Standards Agency is considering a similar move, informing food manufacturers and retailers that they may soon be required to label all foods containing the dangerous fats. One of the reasons TFAs are so harmful I that they are hidden in foods. Many people are not even aware they are eating their way to potential life threatening illnesses.
Out of the 5,000 food lines sold by M&S, 1,200 were made with hydrogenated vegetable fats. By the end of November, that number was cut down to about 700.
Guy Farrant, director of food at Marks & Spencer, said We have removed hydrogenated vegetable fats from our ready meals and we are now working to remove them from all of our food products by mid-2006.
Hopefully other big food retailers will follow suit.
One gram of TFA a day can increase the risk of heart disease
Trans fats are created by the hydrogenation of vegetable oil; a process that gives the oil a longer shelf life and makes it less... well, oily. These qualities also make hydrogenated vegetable oil an appealing choice for 'fast food' restaurants and snack foods such as biscuits, crackers and crisps.
So how much is too much?
Bruce Holub, a professor of nutritional sciences at Canada's University of Guelph, told the Toronto Globe and Mail that ingesting a daily gram of trans fat over several years is enough to significantly boost your risk of heart disease. And professor Holub points out that as few as two crackers can contain an entire gram of TFA.
Thats not a lot. Its not hard to imagine that in a single day, we could potentially be eating 10 times the amount of trans fat said to boost the risk of heart disease.
Read the label to find hidden trans fat
In the e-alert The fat you need to avoid at all costs (7/12/04), I told you how you can avoid trans fats by learning where to look when reading food labels.
For example, if the product contains hydrogenated oil or partially hydrogenated oil, that's obviously your first trans fat tip-off.
They can also be found under the Total Fat section of the Nutrition Facts panel. The fats will be broken down into saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated fats. If the 'Total Fat' number is higher than the other three combined, the difference between the two totals equals the grams-per-serving of trans fat.
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