Poor nations lag in removing unhealthy trans fat from food —WHO report

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Richer countries are making progress in eliminating harmful trans fat from diets by next year, but poorer nations with the highest toll of heart disease due to the intake of such fats are lagging, the WHO said.

Trans fat is an artificial compound with a long shelf life that is used to make fried food, cakes, biscuits, cooking oils, spreads and packaged food. Consuming trans fat can raise cholesterol levels in the body and the risk of heart disease.

Forty countries have adopted ‘best practice policies’ to remove industrially produced trans fat from food supplies by 2023, a goal set by health ministers in May 2018, the WHO said in a progress report. This has protected 1.4 billion people. Ten out of 15 countries estimated to have the highest disease burden from trans fats have not adopted such policies, it said, citing data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. These nations were Egypt, Iran, Mexico, Azerbaijan, Ecuador, Pakistan, Republic of Korea, Bhutan, Nepal and Australia.

“Basically we are suggesting that we replace the industrial trans fat with unsaturated fat, usually oils that come from soy, rapeseed – different basically plant-based oils,” Branca said.

 

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