Nutrition - Should a healthy substitute for trans fats be found before banning them?

Health advocates cheered last month's U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposal to ban partially hydrogenated oils - which contain trans fats that increase the risk of heart disease - but some wonder whether the substitutes for these fats will be any healthier. An article in Chemical & Engineering News, the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, investigates the matter.



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