Legislative Efforts to Restrict Seed and Vegetable Oil Trans Fats in Food

MAHA Movement Could Realize Common AHA, WHO, FDA Goal 15 years Later

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

Trans fats are super-saturated seed and vegetable oils that are used in fast food fryers and in packaged processed foods used as cohesives and long-lasting preservatives. These products came into widespread use in 1990 are are well known to raise the LDL-C or bad cholesterol. The American Heart Association called for legislative restrictions on trans fat back in 2009.