Ban the Trans Fats from Your Diet
So many people focus on cutting back on carbs but not as many focus on cutting back on fat in their diets. Some fats are truly the bad fats, the worst kinds of fat for your health. These are trans fats. Trans fats are so bad for your health that during 2007-2011, eleven counties in New York actually banned trans fats. Restaurants, bakeries and concessions like park concessions could no longer sell foods containing trans fats. This became a perfect experiment on trans fats and health as some counties in New York allowed trans fat in food sold in public places and other counties did not. Granted, in every county in New York you could still go to the grocery store and buy foods containing trans fats, but not in restaurants and other public establishments that sold food. So, what did the researchers find? Heart disease – in counties that banned trans fats, heart disease declined even more than in counties that did not ban the...