Associated Press, Alicia Chang, May 26, 2010
Holy fish sticks! Scientists finally have some good news about fat in our foods.
Contrary to fears, most food manufacturers and restaurants did not just swap one bad ingredient for another when they trimmed artery-clogging trans fats from products and menus, an analysis finds.
Even the french fry, a longtime dietary scourge, got a healthier remake. But theres still room for improvement, particularly for some items sold in supermarkets, which replaced heart-damaging trans fat with its unhealthy cousin, saturated fat.
A Harvard researcher and a consumer advocacy …

Neville Rigby, April 16, The Guardian
The mere mention of trans fats – an unhealthy by-product in our industrialised diets – leaves many respectable scientists fulminating, food manufacturers shrugging and pleading that they’ve done their best, while responsible government agencies and some of their scientific advisers look the other way while the media headlines shriek about killer fat.

Yet how many of us realise that trans fats turn up in all kinds of funny places – and very frequently in the frying pan at home. Read the labels and wherever they mention …