Trans Fat : Bigger Threat than Malnutrition

What is Trans fat:
There are 2 types of fat available -  saturated fat and unsaturated fat. Fat consists of a  long hydrocarbon chain. The unsaturated Fats compound consists of double bonds (A double bond in chemistry is a chemical bond between two chemical elements involving four bonding electrons instead of the usual two). Trans Fat,  or trans fatty acid, trans unsaturated fatty acid, is kind of a unsaturated fat that occurs in a small amount in nature but became artificially mass-produced industrially from vegetable fats for use in Margarine, snack food, packaged baked goods and deep frying fast food.
It is the fact that, TransFat created artificially by food industrialist for the business interest.  Our body doesn’t require any trans fat, which is acknowledged by numerous health specialist, dietician, and food scientist. In fact, it is a bigger threat than malnutrition.

Why Transfat is not good for health :
Most research shows that consumption of Trans Fat, increase LDL (Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) is one of the five major groups of lipoprotein which transport all Fat molecules around the body in the extracellular water) level. Due to the increase of LDL Level, Cholesterol level increased. Following health risks are associated due to high consumption of Trans fat: Coronary Artery Disease, Diabetes, Obesity, Liver Dysfunction, Infertility in Women, major depressive disorder.

Food Group, which contains Trans Fat :
Shortenings, margarine/spreads, butter, whole milk, bread/cake products, cookies & crackers, salty snacks, cake frostings and sweets, animal fat, ground beef.

History:
1890 – Nobel Laureate Paul Sabatier develop the chemistry of hydrogenation of vapor.
1901 – German Chemist, Wilhelm Normann proofed that Vegetable Oil can be hydrogenated and patented this in 1902.
1905-1910 – In Germany and England – mass production of the fat-hardening process get momentum. Norman in Herford, Germany establishes a fat hardening facility and  In Warrington, England - a large scale factory established by Joseph Crosfield & Sons, Limited. In,1909, the Warrington plant started production with a capacity of 3000 MT per Year. In,1909, Procter and Gamble, got the US rights to the Normann Patent.
1911 -  P& G they started selling the 1st hydrogenated shortening from hydrogenated cottonseed oil. The brand name was “CRISCO”.
1936 – Lever Brothers started marketing under the brand name of “Spry” in England. Production of trans fats steadily increased till 1960.
1956 -  in Scientific journal/literature, there was a suggestion that trans fat is the cause of the increasing number of coronary artery diseases but it remained largely unaddressed till three decades.
In the 1990s, it was mandatory for all food manufacturers to mention the trans fat information on their product labels in most developed countries.
2003- The World Health Organization recommended that consumption of trans fat should not be more than 1% of a person’s diet.

2018-The World Health Organization announced 6 phase guide towards eradicating industrially produced trans fatty acid from the global food supply chain.

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