Limit Fat Intake
December 11, 2008 by jody
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
In countries around the world (Trans Fats) have been eliminated in most foods. Some traces of trans fats are found in some dairy and meat products, which are formed during the manufacturing process.
Limiting the intake of saturated and trans fat in your daily diet can lower your risk of cholesterol or plaque buildup which causes coronary and artery disease.
Most of us acquired our eating habits while we were young and these habits are different through out the world. If you have been eating unhealthy most of your life and are thinking you need to take control of your diet, maybe …read more
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 …read more




