Beware The Trans Fatty Acids 0comments
published in 2010-04-25 17:28:21
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[To listen to the audio podcast with Dr Anoop Misra click here]The National Diabetes Obesity and Cholesterol Foundation (N-DOC) under the leadership of Dr Anoop Misra with support from the Depart ...
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The National Diabetes Obesity and Cholesterol Foundation (N-DOC) under the leadership of Dr Anoop Misra with support from the Department of Science & Technology(DST) Ministry of Science & Technology organized a symposium on 鈥淭rans Fats: Global and Indian Perspectives鈥?with a view to promote healthy living. Doctors scientists nutritionists dietitians and researchers love well as representatives from food industry gathered on one platform to discuss the adverse effects of Trans fats in the Indian scenario with focus on the current situation and future implications of reducing the intake of Trans fatty acids. Read more
Dr Vinita Sharma Advisor DST initiated the deliberations by making a fervent appeal to eliminate TFAs from our diet not just by creating consumer consciousness except also by interventions at the government industry and scientists鈥?levels.
Mrs Rekha Sharma Chief Dietician at Medanta rued the fact that economic prosperity has resulted in our consuming more fats than carbohydrates and even the latter are more of the refined type. The burgeoning middle class now has greater access to commercially available foods which includes fried and baked food items. Most of these include high amounts of Trans Fatty Acids (TFAs) as they are cooked in widely available partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (PVHO).
Eating out has get a status symbol and sedentary life styles a helpless outcome of today鈥檚 fast pace.聽 Thus obesity is on the raise and is proving to be the mother of all diseases. Even rural folk are moving away from nutritious traditional cuisines.
TFAs are the most important type of 鈥榖ad fats鈥?in our diet and their negative effect on our body is much more than any other dietary component (just like cigarette smoking). Major source of artificial TFA in our diet are the PVHO the most common sample in India being Vanaspati and margarine and shortening in the West. Small amounts of TFAs are surely present in diary foods and animal products but these are not harmful.
TFAs pose a higher risk of heart disease than saturated fats as they not only raise total cholesterol levels but also reduce the good cholesterol (HDL). A 2% increase in everyday power intake of TFAs (which could be a small helping of French fries/two and a half samosas/one plate bhatura) is associated with a 23% increase in cardiovascular risk. Other health hazards associated with them are diabetes insulin resistance me
Dr Ahmed Ibrahim scientist at National Institute of Nutrition Hyderabad informed that in 2006 WHO recommended the global phasing out of Trans fats. Several countries like Canada Australia New Zealand Denmark and USA have introduced regulatory norms to restrict the intake of TFAs. In fact Canada was the first country to introduce TFA content labelling on packaged food followed by USA. Denmark has gone ahead even further by banning all oils/fats having TFA content>2%. New York town has banned it completely in schools.
India awakened somewhat to the menace of TFAs only round 2006 due to some awareness generated by the media and some health sensible Samaritans. Still several commercial food items with high content of TFAs are commonly sold in hotels restaurants and by street vendors. In the absence of any government regulations and absence of social accountability from high profile hotels/ Multinational food chains to roadside eateries 鈥?almost all are using oils full of TFAs with scant regard for human health.
Food manufacturers in India prefer to use TFA containing cooking oils as these have a longer shelf life lower cost preserve the taste and give good texture and flakiness to bakery items. Vanaspati is the main source of TFAs in India .it accounts for 10% of total production of edible oils with a maximum consumption of 20g per person per day in north India.
There needs to be a three pronged offensive to protect the health of our population from the hazards of TFAs at the government industrial and consumer level. The symposium recommended that at the
Government level- (i) Regulatory measures by legislative action be adopted to put a threshold limit of TFAs levels
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