date:Jun 30, 2015
In the wake of FDA finalizing its determination that partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs)the primary food manufacturing source of trans fatsare not GRAS for foods (food and beverages manufacturers three years to remove them entirely from food products), a new study linked trans fat with worse memory, specifically word recall, in young adults (PLOS ONE. June 17, 2015).
The researchers analyzed cross-sectional data from the 1999 to 2005 UCSD Statin Study. Participants were 1,018 adult men and non-p