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Hydrogenated oils / trans fats - will Alfie the cat eat them? - the Alfie Elmlea Challenge! Alfie the cat checks out Elmlea double cream substitute. This has "33% less fat", but contains hydrogenated oils. Will Alfie notice the difference between Elmlea and real cream? Will she eat Elmlea? Or will she know it contains harmful ingredients and give it a wide berth? Hosted on youtube, posted by nondietweightloss, 10 February 2010.
Alzheimer′s can be prevented - writing for the Guardian's 'Comment is free', tfX founder Oliver Tickell makes the case for lifestyle oriented action and research to reduce the incidence of Alzheimer's disease, which now affects 820,000 people and costs the nation £23 billion per year. A key part of the action plan? You guessed it, a ban on industrial trans fats. Published 3 February 2010.
The Public Health Manifesto of the UK Faculty of Public Health, which calls among other measures for a ban on industrial trans fats, in the run-up to the UK's 2010 general election.
Ingreedients - the movie, the website. Ingreedients is a 2009 film by Florida, USA based Sir Rebel Films. Hard hitting and uncompromising, it lifts the lid on the continuing trans fat scandal.
Trailer 2 for Ingreedients - the movie. Hosted on youtube.
Trailer 1 for Ingreedients - the movie (hosted on youtube).
Call to ban man-made fat - NHS Choices picks up on the UK Faculty of Public Health call for a ban on trans fats. "The proposal came as part of a series of recommendations designed to improved UK health over the next decade. The call to completely remove trans fats from the British diet echoes bans in Denmark and parts of the US and Canada."
Why trans fats should be banned - by Alan Maryon-Davis, published in The Guardian 18 January 2010. "Most of us have at least a rough idea about the so-called bad fats and good fats in our diet ... But few have heard of industrially produced trans fatty acids, or trans fats, even though they are much more damaging to our heart and arteries than saturated fats. Trans fats are very bad fats. There is no safe level. They are not essential as an ingredient. And yet they are present in a wide range of foods, especially fast foods and takeaways. ... "
Doctors demand ban on man-made trans fats - published in the Guardian, 18 January 2010. "The UK Faculty of Public Health is urging ministers to eradicate artificial trans fatty acids, known as trans fats, from the British diet. The move is needed to reduce people's risk of suffering a heart attack or a stroke, says the faculty, which represents 3,300 doctors and public health specialists in the NHS, local government and medical research."
The rise and fall of trans fat: is the battle won? - Caitlyn Donaldson, Managing Editor of Perspectives in Public Health (the magazine of the Royal Society for Public Health), reviews the state of trans fat regulation and concludes that "Cardiovascular disease is a huge killer worldwide, and it seems a real missed opportunity not to make concerted efforts globally to reduce trans fat in food. It is too soon to claim that the trans fat issue has been dealt with - and focus now needs to turn to the developing world where, in many cases, trans fats have not yet even made it onto the health agenda." Published in Perspectives in Public Health 129(2):57-58, March 2009. (.pdf file, 100KB)