Death By Food Pyramid author Denise Minger (c) 2013 Chapter 9 PUFA-rama: The Rise of Vegetable Oils Page157 Gag Order on Trans Fats The results were grim. It turned out that the margarine market was a virtual see of trans fats, with nearly every brand, both regular and those promoted for health, contained disturbingly high levels. According to Light, the head of the USDAs fats lab--whod spearheaded the analysis--had attempted to spread the findings to other scientists and the public, only to have his efforts thwarted by the steely fist of the USDA. As she described the sorry scene: The head of the fats lab told me that when he attempted to publish a paper with his findings in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.... [the] USDA suppressed it, refusing to allow the information to be published. This eminent, world-renowned scientist told me, with tears in his eyes, that in his twenty-year career in research, he had never been confronted with such blatant political interference in science. (The head of the fats lab, Light described, was so disheartened by corporate interfering that he quit his job to head the nutrition research department at a nearby university.) Nonetheless, the only type of fat continuing to fall under the USDAs sledgehammer was saturated. Despite the results of the 1990 study and other growing concerns about the impact of trans fats on human health, the 1992 food pyramid---and its accompanying pamphlet--didnt even mention the words trans fat much less warn that the substance was under investigation as a potential health hazard.. The pamphlet specifically advise consumers to tilt their fat choices toward margarines with vegetable oil listed as their first ingredient, effectively steering folks toward some of the richest sources of trans fats in existence.
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