The European countries want to continue combating problems related to health of citizens and, one of them is directly linked to the feeding. Therefore, the European Commission adopted last Wednesday, April 24, a new regulation that will affect the Trans fat. Those artificial that are in quantity of products of Bakery, between cakes, sweets or buns, but also in potato chip bags or similar. Within two years, this standard will be active in the entire market of the UE. It stipulates that fats are only in 2 grams per 100 of food.
What are trans fats and why reduce them?
All the Trans fat, also called hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, come from a industrial process that scares the healthiest. Well, it consists of transforming liquid oil in solid fat, something that poses a health hazard. At least, this has been concluded by a variety of recent scientific studies that have proven its dangerousness.
The intake of this type of lipid should be as lowest possible or, otherwise, there would be a risk of suffering a disease derived from high cholesterol 'bad' and triglycerides. This is how the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), after their investigations carried out.
Yet the European Commission He warned of the need to find measures to protect the health of consumers in this regard. So, every time you try reduce high trans fat within processed foods of industrial bakery, snacks or refined cereals. The use of these lipids only have one objective: to increase the useful life of the product. In this way they can have a extended expiration date, maintaining its flavor and ideal texture.
Also pork and lamb or butter and milk contain Trans fat but in small amounts. It is much more serious in the cases mentioned above.
All your health risks
The harmful effects of consuming a high percentage of these lipids relatively often they can even increase the risk of depression, according to other studies. But what is clear is that with high and accumulated cholesterol in the arteries, the chances of suffering from a heart disease increase. The same happens with the greater weight gained progressively, with the posterior risk of diabetes.
Therefore, the recommendations of experts stop the consumption of Trans fat en no more than 25 or 30% corresponding to the daily calorie intake. Everything is in favor of health, since foods so rich in lipids do not bring any benefit for your body.
