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Why is the UK not committed to banning trans fats? - in this MSc dissertation, Shakti Maragh asks: "Why are trans fats banned in 3 places - Denmark, Switzerland and California, yet the UK is not committing to banning this food additive?" Available as pdf file.
Andrew Lansley argues against trans fat ban - the Tory / Lib-Dem government signals no intention to ban trans fats - but the door is still open for change. Article for the tfX website, 2 July 2010.
They kill 7,000 people a year, but trans fats won′t be banned - Sean Poulter writes in the Daily Mail, 1 July 2010. "Official health watchdog NICE has called for a veto on the killer fats, which are blamed for high cholesterol in the blood, clogged arteries and heart attacks. However Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has decided to reject the advice and sided with the food industry - which argues a ban is unnecessary ... "
They were supposed to have been banished from the shelves, but lethal fats are STILL lurking in your weekly shopping - Alex Renton writes in the Daily Mail, 1 July 2010. "The shopping bag is tipped out on to the kitchen table and it's every parent's nightmare. Contained in the food that tumbles out are enough artificial additives to make any nutritionist feel ill. And, most shockingly, every one of the labels on the packets - bought in major High Street shops - contains an ingredient I have investigated over the years, and hoped I would never see again: 'hydrogenated vegetable oil' ... "
NICE recommends trans fat ban - the full story plus key extracts from the NICE document, links to news reports, documents, etc.
Food injurious to health - letter to the BMJ published 16 June 2010, arguing that there may already be a law against trans fats in food in the UK, in the UK Food Safety Act section 7.
Centre for Science in the Public Interest Trans fat campaign - US-based campaign to get industrial trans fatty acids out of food.
Trans fats should be banned from all UK sold food, urge doctors - Up to 7,000 lives a year could be saved and 11,000 heart attacks avoided if unhealthy fats were outlawed, The Guardian reports, Friday 16 April 2010. By Denis Campbell, health correspondent.
Removing industrial trans fat from foods: a simple policy that will save lives - Editorial in the British Medical Journal. putting the case for a ban on trans fats as a simple, low cost, effective public health measure. By Dariush Mozaffarian, assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology, and Meir J Stampfer, professor of medicine and epidemiology, at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. Published in BMJ 2010;340:c1826, 15 April 2010.
A prospective study of dietary fat consumption and endometriosis risk - Stacey A. Missmer et al report in Human Reproduction Vol.00, No.0 pp.1-8, 2010 [doi:10.1093/humrep/deq044] on the strong negative association between fish oil consumption and endometriosis, and the the strong positive association with trans fat consumption. "Those women in the highest fifth of long-chain omega-3 fatty acid consumption were 22% less likely to be diagnosed with endometriosis compared with those with the lowest fifth of intake ... Those in the highest quintile of trans-unsaturated fat intake were 48% more likely to be diagnosed with endometriosis ... These data suggest that specific types of dietary fat are associated with the incidence of laparoscopically confirmed endometriosis, and that these relations may indicate modifiable risk. This evidence additionally provides another disease association that supports efforts to remove trans fat from hydrogenated oils from the food supply."