Australians Don’t Need to Worry About Trans Fats
December 15, 2006 by Lei
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
As some people already know, Australians are special people. So special they don’t need to worry about the evils of trans fat in their diet.
Lydia Buchtmann of Food Standards Australia New Zealand:
There’s not a huge percentage of trans fat in the Australian diet. We’ve been carrying out a formal review with dietary modelling, and the preliminary findings have been that 0.6 per cent of our total kilojoules come from trans fat, which is well below the World Health Organisation’s maximum limit of 1 per cent.
Australian health experts want their citizens to focus more on saturated fats, the main cause of high LDL “bad” cholesterol, found in butter, cheese, fatty meats, etc.
By the way, more power to you if you’re vegetarian like Jul at Veggie Chic. 
The Australian, December 16, 2006
Veggie link via mipmup.
