Five billion people are at an increased risk of heart disease and death due to trans fat, according to a new report from the World Health Organization.
says governments need to do more to ban industrially-produced fats, which clog arteries and are commonly found in cooking oils, spreads, packaged foods and baked goods. , products containing industrial-made trans fats, like margarine, quickly rose to prominence as a cheaper alternatives to animal fats like butter. Until the 1990s, they were also widely perceived as being healthier, and were frequently used in large-scale food production. But that has since been debunked.
According to the WHO, global trans fat intake leads to up to 500,000 premature deaths from coronary heart disease each year. Research shows that artificial trans fat can raise bad cholesterol levels and build up in arteries, increasing the risk of heart disease and heart attack. Natural trans fat occurs in some meat and dairy products and is not considered harmful.
Partially hydrogenated oils are the largest source of industrially-produced trans fat in food and were banned in Canada in , the same year as Latvia, Slovenia and the U.S. Denmark became the first country to do so in 2004, followed by Austria in 2009, Chile, Iceland and South Africa in 2011, and Hungary and Norway in 2014.
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