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This is from The Checkup, a regular feature.

This story adds that some of the usual suspects of trans fats, McDonald’s being the one nutritionists and others have cited often, changed. Trans fats are gone at the golden arches.

The important thing is not whether you can pass the pop quiz but whether you read labels carefully so that you can spot trans fats—in commercial baked goods, for instance—and strike those from your grocery list.

Washington Post

“If you can do so, (name three foods) you’re ahead of most Americans, a new study suggests. Reporting in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, researchers from four universities working with the American Heart Association found that while 92 percent of 1,000 respondents questioned in 2007 were aware of trans fats as a substance that may contribute to cardiovascular disease, only 17 percent could name three foods that contain the bad fats. (Emphasis added)

“Even so, 37 percent of respondents said they’d changed their purchasing and eating behaviors to avoid trans fats, seeking products that were labeled “zero trans fat,” for instance.”

Source: Washington Post Online, February 22, 2009

Citation Source: American Dietetic Association, February, 2009