Banning Trans Fat Research Paper

Banning trans fats is a good idea to avert people from overriding them due to the strong links that exist with heart disease. Though, banning them would not fade away the worry about heart disease as while some of the concerns linked to the excessive use and consumption of trans fats would be solved, heart disease worries would remain. As Dr. Katz has denoted in his article Sugar and Saturated Fat: Feeding the Parasites of Science based on the study made by Harvard students, “when net saturated fat calories were replaced with sugar, things got no better, but they got no worse either”. Heart disease is not only connected to trans fats so eradicating it would not vanish the main concern but at least, it would lessen its consumption significantly. …show more content…
As a result, I believe that following a healthy diet that is nutrient dense while keeping trans fats as low as possible are healthy steps towards decreasing potential health effects. Both the textbook and article readings have reinforced my already existing theory of being selective when referring to processed food and snack foods due to the negative effects associated with them. First, processed foods such as apple pie, frozen pizza and snack foods such as potato chips have hydrogenated oils that are sources of trans fats. Manufactures use synthetic trans fatty acids to their products to add texture and resistance to rancidity, and this is a significant big concern. As noted in the article Eliminating trans fats could cost companies $200,000 per product, “trans fats raise so-called "bad" LDL cholesterol”. This can be worse than saturated fat because they increase the LDL cholesterol while lower HDL cholesterol in the body, which leads to coronary heart disease. In effect, these are powerful reasons for me to keep myself away from processed foods while advising others to do the