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Transfat: the Time Bomb in Your Food - by Maggie Stanfield (Souvenir Press, 2008). According to the publishers, "In this readable, accessible and eminently practical book, Stanfield explains how to identify trans fat in the ingredients listed on food packaging, how to be more aware of what is in your food and understand what it is doing to your health. She explains what you, as a parent, can do for your family's health and what we, as consumers, can do to change what is stocked in our supermarkets." The only problem is, that thanks to timely voluntary action by supermarkets and the UK food industry (with a few shameful exceptions), there's precious little trans fat in the UK diet any more.
Deadly fats: why are we still eating them? - Hydrogenated vegetable oil has been banned in two European countries but not ours. Andrew Collier investigates in The Independent, Tuesday 10 June 2008. This article reviews the recent book by Maggie Stansfield, Trans-Fat: The Time Bomb in Your Food. What it fails to say is that thanks to voluntary action by the food industry and supermarkets there is actually very little trans fat in the UK diet. However the call for Europe-wide limits on trans fats is welcome and timely.
Nitrites and Cancer - this article in The Ecologist (9 June 2008) by tfX founder Oliver Tickell raises important health concerns about whether routine pollution of our water supplies may be behind the high rate of cancer mortality in developed and industrialising countries.
EU trans fat petition - initiated by the Mayor of Nynäshamn, Dr Ilija Batljan, on World Health Day, April 7. The aim is to raise one million signatures in order to make the European Union act against trans fats in foods. The petition has two demands: "As of June 1, 2009, Trans Fat must be listed on food labels, on a separate line immediately under the line for the declaration of saturated fatty acids. As of June 1, 2009, the content of trans fatty acids in the oils and fats, including emulsions with fat as the continuous phase (including all C14 to C22 trans isomers but excluding naturally occurring content of trans fatty acids in animal fats), which, either alone or as part of processed foods, a re intended for human consumption or must be assumed to be intended for human consumption shall not exceed 2 grams per 100 grams of oil or fat."
Trans fat: the Danish example - the people behind Denmark's trans fat ban examine premature preventable deaths in EU countries due to high intakes of industrially produced Trans fat, and ask: what action should be taken? by Steen Stender and Jørn Dyerberg Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Gentofte University Hospital, Copenhagen, and Arne Astrup, Department of Human Nutrition, Centre of Advanced Food Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen. Article published in NHD magazine, September 2007.
Alzheimer′s - the case for prevention article by tfX founder Oliver Tickell published in The Ecologist magazine, September 2007. We publish this uncut version complete with scientific references on the tfX website to dispel possible misunderstandings and to assist researchers wishing to follow look up the original papers. See here for The Ecologist's version.
Obesity ′as bad as climate risk′ - BBC news article on obesity which includes the statement that "The government is also due to ask the Food Standards Agency to probe the use of unhealthy "trans-fats", which have been linked to coronary heart disease, in fast food" - as also reported on BBC TV and radio on 14 October 2007.
Alzheimer's - the case for prevention - are we losing our minds? And could something as simple and inexpensive as diet and lifestyle prevent it from happening? Yes, says tfX founder Oliver Tickell. One of the many measures is to cut trans fats out of the diet. Article published in The Ecologist magazine, September 2007.
Getting the better of diabetes - type 2 diabetes sufferer Carol is carefully removing industrial trans fats from her diet and recording the effects of this on her condition in a unique scientific experiment beginning April 2007. "Welcome to my blog about diabetes. I am embarking on an attempt to alleviate if not cure my type 2 diabetes through the elimination of trans isomer fats from my diet, following the plan advocated by Dr John Midgely. This is going to require some quite significant changes to the way I eat ... ".
Check the Oil, Please - Matt Elmore of Barcelona Metropolitan examines the trans fat issue in the Catalan context.