Why does Europe does "not" allow  Trans Fats when U.S.A. Does allow! Why?
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It tastes good. It's a cheap food additive like MSG, and probably just as bad for your health.
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Probably because in the developed world, it's extremely difficult to consume a diet that is too *low* in fat. RDAs are meant to ensure that you get enough of something, mostly vitamins and minerals, though there are also estimates for calorie count.\n\nIt is recommended that no more than 20% of your caloric intake come from fat. Most people shouldn't consume more than 70g of fat per day to maintain a healthy weight, though obviously it depends on your own physique. Some advocates of very low-fat diets try to limit their intake to below 30g per day.\n\nIncidentally, in the UK they do have labels showing the grams of fat, the calories from fat, and how much of your caloric RDA this represents.
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Trans fatty acid.That's the first step in making it completely hydrogenated.Saturated fat is completely surrounded by hydrogen atoms.Therefore it's "saturated" with hydrogen.Trans fat poses a much greater health risk than the fats they were created from.
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Ask the owners of transnational companies..... America is a mere puppet in their hands.....You are toooooo naive... and an idiot, indeed, to ask such a silly question...
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A certain quality and safety standard has to be maintained for goods to be imported in the US.  Other countries are probably nor meeting that criteria yet.  There are large quantity of goods being imported from China, so your statement is not entirely true either.
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There's very little science involved - it's mostly economics.\n\nThe science:  Saturated fats tend to be solid at room temperature.  They are easier to use in food manufacturing operations.\n\nThe economics:  Saturated fats give a better texture and taste to foods than non-saturated fats.  Saturated fats also have a much longer shelf life.  Products made from these fats taste better and last longer, so that's what the consumer is going to buy, whether it's better for their health or not.\n\nEconomically, food companies need to make what people will buy, so the continued use of saturated fats is a no-brainer from their perspective.
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fat free are better as they are free of trans fats. \n\nFYI - Trans fats are worse for you than saturated fats.
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There are many reasons, but the consensus seems to be empty calories with no nutritional value.  Here's an excellent article.\n\nhttp://preventdisease.com/home/tips43.shtml
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A bad product might be well within legal and health guidelines in another country. Don't blame a company in another country for trying to make money, blame your country's health guidelines for allowing them to sell it.
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A label reading 0 grams trans fat means it has less than half a gram trans fat per serving. The product might have as much as 0.49 grams and still list zero.  One serving per day probably wouldn't m,atter, but three or four might.  It's probably a good idea to limit foods that list hydrogenated oil as an ingredient, even if they say 0 grams trans fat, but I don't think you have to absolutely eliminate them.
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Because the government allows it.  The lassez faire policies of most administrations tend to let "the market" dictate prices, however the oil companies collude to set prices.\n\nNo, I do not have to move to Cuba.  I can excerise my precious vote.  If enough americans think straight\nin November we might end this nonsense.\n\nThink green, buy hybrids, conserve energy, and save the precious lives of young americans.  Oil is not worth dying for.\n\nBest wishes\n\nAsk the consumer advocate
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Recomended daily allowance of trans fats are 0gms
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Fuel prices are set by OPEC (price per barrel.)  They are most reasonable in the US because our government subsidizes what we pay.  OPEC sucks, they won't allow any other petrol-bearing nations to offer a lesser fee.  They are too powerful.
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The thing is that a cis touble bond (the kind where the two carbons are on the same side of the bond) creates a sort of a kink in the carbon chain.  In saturated fats, there are no double bonds, so the carbon chain is more or less a straight line, but in unsaturated fats, the carbon chain is bent in one or more location.  The straight molecules of the saturated fat can pile up into stacks with all the molecules lined up parallel to each other.  Unsaturated fats, on the other hand, can't do this.  Think about a bendy straw.  In the box, they can be packed together into a tight solid, but as soon as you bend the part at the top they can't be packed together nearly as neatly or closely.\n\nSaturated fats are less healthy not because they can't be broken down as easily, but because they are better able to form a tightly packed solids, so they tend to have higher melting points, and are therefore more likely to form solid masses in your arteries and elsewhere.  Unsaturated fats tend to be liquids, so they don't clog things up as much.\n\nIncidentally, in trans fats, the carbon atoms around the double bond are arranged across from each other so that the carbon chain is straight, like in saturated fats, so they behave similarly to saturated fats, which is why they are so much worse for you than naturally occuring unsaturated fats.
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Why shouldn't they? \nThen Turkey can dump their undesirables in the UK like a lot of other EU countries.
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They are trying to do the same thing in the USA.  But they would tax restaurants and food service companies for serving food that is "judged" to be outside USDA guidelines.\nThis is done in connection with the smoking bans...It has to do with the theory that everyone is accountable for  actions of others yet no one is responsible for their own actions.
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Moreover, the two good fats (monounsaturated and polyunsaturated) were decreased in the intervention group. These two good fats actually help to prevent heart disease and heart attacks. They were decreased because this was designed as a study about cancer, not about heart disease and heart attacks. In fact, in any study about the effect of fat on heart disease and heart attacks, these two good fats should be increased - or at least not decreased. Decreasing the good fats would tend to cancel the beneficial results of decreasing the bad fats.\n\n\n\nTrans fats are artificial fats made when hydrogen gas reacts with oil. They can be found in cookies, crackers, icing, potato chips, margarine and microwave popcorn.\n\nWhy are They Bad for You?\n\nTrans fats pose a higher risk of heart disease than saturated fats, which were once believed to be the worst kind of fats. While it is true that saturated fats -- found in butter, cheese and beef, for example -- raise total cholesterol levels, trans fats go a step further. Trans fats not only raise total cholesterol levels, they also deplete good cholesterol (HDL), which helps protect against heart disease.\n\nWhat Harm do They do to the Body?\n\nThe stiffer and harder fats are, the more they clog up your arteries. Trans fats do the same thing in our bodies that bacon grease does to kitchen sinks. Over time, they can "clog the pipes" that feed the heart and brain, which can lead to heart attack or stroke risk.\nhttp://www.umm.edu/features/transfats.html