Peter’s Memo: Tracking the evidence from trans fat bans

It's no secret why the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Nutrition Action's publisher, has spent the last 20 years fighting to get trans fat out of the food supply. Partially hydrogenated oil—the source of artificial trans fat—has been around for more than a century. But it wasn't until the early 1990s that studies produced unequivocal evidence linking it to heart disease in humans.
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