Big food companies are squeezing trans fats out of products from Oreos to Cheetos and rushing to find palatable substitute oils. Even Crisco has been reformulated so it's trans-fat free. Fast-food chains such as Wendy's and McDonald's have scrambled to figure out ways to cook fries without trans fats.More.Now, some nutrition and health analysts say the preoccupation with trans fats has gone too far.
They say that in some cases, trans fats simply are being replaced with other unhealthful oils. And at a time when 66% of adults in the USA are overweight or obese, the analysts say the nation's fixation with trans fats is drawing attention away from other important reasons Americans' diets are so bad for their hearts: They continue to consume too many calories, too much junk food and not enough fruits and vegetables.
"It is important to remind ourselves that changing oils and removing trans fat does not magically turn a deep-fried food into a health food," says Dawn Jackson Blatner, a registered dietitian at Northwestern Memorial Wellness Institute in Chicago and spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association.
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