ad LDL and lower good HDL. While you should limit your intake of saturated fats, it is important to completely eliminate trans fats from partially hydrogenated oils from your diet….Ounce for ounce, trans fats are far worse than saturated fats when it comes to heart disease."

So no one will misunderstand the above statement, I will restate it: Margarine, vegetable sh

There is a killer in our grocery stores and restaurants that each year kills more than 20 times as many people as the War in Iraq and you probably don't know what it is, even when the research comes from the leading Medical Journal and foremost Medical School. The message has not been communicated because most people do not know what "trans fats" are.

The following information could prevent between 72,000 and 228,000 heart attacks and strokes each year. It is from the Harvard Medical School, New England Journal of Medicine, and from four studies including the Nurses' Health Study of more than 120,000 nurses that began in 1976. It reveals a shocking change by modern medicine regarding heart disease and fats in the diet. It is, in fact, almost opposite from what we have been told for 50 years to prevent heart disease.

You can stake your life on this research because of the large number of people followed for 30 years. It was not done to sell a drug and the conclusions are not going to change next month. There was no ulterior motive and no vested interests.

What the research revealed is: "Just 5 grams of trans fatty acids (from margarine, vegetable shortening, hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated vegetable oil) per day increases the risk of heart disease by 25%." (Two servings of margarine weigh more than 5 grams.)

The Harvard School of Public Health reports: "Trans fats are even worse for cholesterol levels than saturated fats because they raise bad LDL and lower good HDL. While you should limit your intake of saturated fats, it is important to completely eliminate trans fats from partially hydrogenated oils from your diet….Ounce for ounce, trans fats are far worse than saturated fats when it comes to heart disease."

So no one will misunderstand the above statement, I will restate it: Margarine, vegetable sho

information could prevent between 72,000 and 228,000 heart attacks and strokes each year. It is from the Harvard Medical School, New England Journal of Medicine, and from four studies including the Nurses' Health Study of more than 120,000 nurses that began in 1976. It reveals a shocking change by modern medicine regarding heart disease and fats in the diet. It is, in fact, almost opposite from what we have been told for 50 years to prevent heart disease.

You can stake your life on this research because of the large number of people followed for 30 years. It was not done to sell a drug and the conclusions are not going to change next month. There was no ulterior motive and no vested interests.

What the research revealed is: "Just 5 grams of trans fatty acids (from margarine, vegetable shortening, hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated vegetable oil) per day increases the risk of heart disease by 25%." (Two servings of margarine weigh more than 5 grams.)

The Harvard School of Public Health reports: "Trans fats are even worse for cholesterol levels than saturated fats because they raise bad LDL and lower good HDL. While you should limit your intake of saturated fats, it is important to completely eliminate trans fats from partially hydrogenated oils from your diet….Ounce for ounce, trans fats are far worse than saturated fats when it comes to heart disease."

So no one will misunderstand the above statement, I will restate it: Margarine, vegetable sh

ct, almost opposite from what we have been told for 50 years to prevent heart disease.

You can stake your life on this research because of the large number of people followed for 30 years. It was not done to sell a drug and the conclusions are not going to change next month. There was no ulterior motive and no vested interests.

What the research revealed is: "Just 5 grams of trans fatty acids (from margarine, vegetable shortening, hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated vegetable oil) per day increases the risk of heart disease by 25%." (Two servings of margarine weigh more than 5 grams.)

The Harvard School of Public Health reports: "Trans fats are even worse for cholesterol levels than saturated fats because they raise bad LDL and lower good HDL. While you should limit your intake of saturated fats, it is important to completely eliminate trans fats from partially hydrogenated oils from your diet….Ounce for ounce, trans fats are far worse than saturated fats when it comes to heart disease."

So no one will misunderstand the above statement, I will restate it: Margarine, vegetable sh

ust 5 grams of trans fatty acids (from margarine, vegetable shortening, hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated vegetable oil) per day increases the risk of heart disease by 25%." (Two servings of margarine weigh more than 5 grams.)

The Harvard School of Public Health reports: "Trans fats are even worse for cholesterol levels than saturated fats because they raise bad LDL and lower good HDL. While you should limit your intake of saturated fats, it is important to completely eliminate trans fats from partially hydrogenated oils from your diet….Ounce for ounce, trans fats are far worse than saturated fats when it comes to heart disease."

So no one will misunderstand the above statement, I will restate it: Margarine, vegetable sh

ad LDL and lower good HDL. While you should limit your intake of saturated fats, it is important to completely eliminate trans fats from partially hydrogenated oils from your diet….Ounce for ounce, trans fats are far worse than saturated fats when it comes to heart disease."

So no one will misunderstand the above statement, I will restate it: Margarine, vegetable shortening, hydrogenated peanut butter, hydrogen-nated and partially hydrogenated vegetable oils are far worse than butter, cheese, eggs, lard, and saturated fat from meat when it comes to heart disease.

Such trans fats are found in nearly all bread and baked goods, cookies, crackers, chips, peanut butter, and even ice cream. They are also used in the food of all restaurants.

The New England Journal of Medicine reports: "On a per-calorie basis, trans fats appear to increase coronary heart disease risk more than any other micro-nutrient, conferring a substantially increased risk at levels aslow as 1% to 3% of total energy intake. In a meta-analysis of four prospective cohort studies of nearly 140,000 participants, a 2% increase in energy intake from trans fats was linked to a 23% increase in the incidence of coronary heart disease.

On the basis of the reported relationship between trans fat intake and coronary heart disease 10% to 19% of coronary heart disease events in the U.S. could be averted by reducing the intake of trans fats. Given the 1.2 million annual myocardial infarctions and deaths from coronary heart disease in the U.S., near-elimination of trans fats might avert between 72,000 (6%) and 228,000 (19%) of coronary heart disease events each year."

Even the current legislation requiring the listing of trans fats on all products may not help. It will deceive most people. According to the FDA, a product claiming to have "0 trans fat" can actuall