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    Trans Fats

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    Trans Fats There is lots of controversy going on about should the trans fats be banned by the government or not. On one side are people who are for ban of trans fats‚ while their opponents think that they should not be prohibited. What are the trans fats? Are they really bad for our health‚ should they be replaced with another substance and why there are so many people against them? Producers have the power over us‚ as well as opportunity to put trans fats into food in small amounts‚ without

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    Ban Trans-Fat Although fats are considered to be a part of our health‚ there are certain types that should be ignored. One of which has drawn controversial issues is trans-fat. Trans-fat is mostly found in many food sources such as vegetable oil‚ crackers‚ cookies and margarine. It increases blood levels of low density lipoprotein that is considered to be bad cholesterol‚ and decreases level of good cholesterol‚ high density lipoprotein. Trans-fat is created when oils are partially hydrogenated

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    Fats and Oils

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    Fats and Oils TCP FST4826 1 Vegetable oil • • • • • • • • • • TCP Coconut oil Corn oil Cottonseed oil Olive oil Palm kernel oil Palm oil Peanut oil Rapeseed oil Soybean oil Sunflower oil 1. Palm oil 2. Soybean oil 3. Rapeseed oil 4. Sunflower oil 5. Palm kernel oil 6. Cottonseed oil 7. Peanut oil 8. Coconut oil 9. Olive oil 10. Corn oil FST4826 2 WHAT IS A FAT? • Chemical units commonly called "triacylglycerols" • “Lipids" - triacylglycerols‚ mono- and diacylglycerols‚

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    Fat Free

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    Finding The Fat Using Mathematical Formulas Mat126 Survey of Mathematical Methods Instructor: Jerry Bilbrey February 11‚ 2013 This country is going crazy about losing weight and weight lost products. People of all races‚ creed and color worry about their weight‚ and this ranges from male to females of all ages and all cultures. Learning what products are truly fat free can done by analyzing the fat content and protein content of the products we buy that state they are fat free and have

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    Fat Tax

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    consumption of high-fat foods and obesity is well established. Mounting concern about the increasing incidence of obesity in many countries has sparked debate about the merit of an explicit ‘fat tax’‚ aimed at either taxing foods according to their fat content or‚ more practically‚ taxing certain foods with a high fat content. Discuss the implications and effectiveness of a fat tax for reducing the consumption of high-fat foods? There are many implications and effectiveness of a fat tax an example

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    Fat Is Beautiful

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    Article 26 Where Fat Is a Mark of Beauty In a rite of passage‚ some Nigerian girls spend months gaining weight and learning customs in a special room. “To be called a ‘slim princess’ is an abuse‚” says a defender of the practice. By Ann M. Simmons TIMES STAFF WRITER AKPABUYO‚ Nigeria—Margaret Bassey Ene currently has one mission in life: gaining weight. The Nigerian teenager has spent every day since early June in a “fattening room” specially set aside in her father’s mudand-thatch house

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    I picked the second quote‚ “trans fats should not be banned. Consumers should make their own choices about what they eat. The government should educate the population about the risks of eating foods with Trans fats‚ but then let people make their own decisions.” The way I look at this situation is‚ we do a lot of bad things to our bodies. We eat fast food‚ sugars‚ drink alcohol and plenty more. Everything that we take into our body systems‚ has some type of effect on our bodies‚ whether it be causing

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    Emma Pedlar English 151 Alisa Klinger 7 December 2014 Risks of the Fast Lane California is currently the only state in the United States that allows motorcycles to lane split. Lane splitting is an act that motorcyclists perform in order to reach their destination quicker and more efficiently. It has proven to be somewhat beneficial in regards to the amount of traffic and environmental benefits‚ but it can have severe consequences when done inappropriately or when caught in the wrong situation

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    Fat Tax

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    Fat Taxes’ In our society‚ there is a massive obesity problem which causes people to die prematurely from heart attack or high blood pressure. So‚ the health experts discovered a way to prevent people from eating foods that might have negative effects on their health. It is a new kind of tax that is called ‘fat tax’‚ according to which consumers are called to pay a small amount of money‚ every time something unhealthy is purchased. In my opinion‚ the aforementioned tax should l save a lot

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    Fat and Fabulous

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    only a small amount of women actually live up to these outrageous standards. The media strongly influences our perception of what we should look like. This is the reason many people are not satisfied with the way they are. Kathleen LeBesco’s article “Fat and Fabulous: Resisting Construction of Female Body Ideals‚” describes that the conditions we live in make it easier for us to be overweight. Now a day‚ jobs require little physical activity and fast food is more convenient than ever. Her article focuses

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