news flash. women and children hit hardest. and if God makes an announcement "world will end tomorrow". the head lines in the newspapers will be women and children hit hardest.

Eat, drink and be merry in moderation....problem solved!

it strikes me as UNREAL how these place=ppl, are able to produce foods and whatever else, feed it, sell it to unsuspecting other humans and its OK. (?).

WOW.. They SHOULD BE Charged With.. ATTEMPTED MURDER.!!. FOR REAL.......O-M-G.

Im not usually for alot of government interference, but in this case it should be illegal for companies to use trans fats. Yes, we have a choice and should just check lables and not buy the products...thats what I already do. BUT many Americans are just so uneducated about nutrition that they believe the food they buy in the supermarket is safe. Its quite sad that we live in a country where these food companies are aloud to do whatever they please just because they have politicians in their pockets! Its sickening! Its such a mess and the people need to let congress know they are fed up with these companies underhanded ways that involve OUR health and pass a bill that BANS the use of these products in our food.

I know I know....all the cry babies will start saying keep the government out of our food choices! I can only say to them that they arent making a food choice for you, they are eliminating the POISON from your food because you are too uneducated to realize it and eliminate it on your own. They can easily replace trans fats with veg oil...we've already seen it with a lot of products as a result of customers demanding it.

No problem, just eat organic? Sure, no problem. It's easy. I live in a small town in NW Iowa. I'll just go to the organic hippi dippi store and buy fresh stuff and spend 6 hours every night preparing meals for both dinner and lunches I can pack the next day. I'll bake my own organic wheat bread and make my own mayo and kill my kitty and eat her in sandwiches because I know what she eats and she's the only animal that is safe. What a bunch of freaking nonsense. Just make everyone take the trans fats out. I don't have time to live in hippi world where the people that write this crap live.

I agree on the trans fat information however disagree on the Tropical oil content in this article.

Coconut oil, palm and other tropical oils are unique in that they are the best natural source of medium and short chain fatty acids giving them incredible health-promoting properties. This has an totally different effect on the body than typical long chain fatty acids both saturated and unsaturated chains found in meat and vegetable oils. Medium chain fatty acids are broken down and used primarily for energy production and seldom end up as body fat or as deposits in arteries or elsewhere.

I use coconut oil almost daily as a replacement of butter when cooking. You can purchase it at your local health food store or for better pricing I buy through amazon.com. The brand I prefer is Nutiva.

I read in several health food books that canola oil has trans fats. There is some article available on the internet w/something like "the great 'con'ola" in the title. MSNBC, if you are listening, I'd like to read a mainstream article on this topic.

We cannot afford to eat organic everything--particularly fruits and veggies--but we buy some organic items (soup, soymilk, yogurt, chicken broth come to mind). I can tell you this, people, I've been a runner for 15 years (long distance). I started gaining weight as I aged no matter how far I ran. Then I read several books re: eating healthier, unprocessed foods (lots of fruits and veggies). I thought that I was already eating a lot of them, but I really wasn't. If you eliminate the bad stuff from your pantry and eat the following:

1 c. yogurt, 1 c. berries, 3/4 c. uncle sam cereal (breakfast).

Salad with lots of veggies (no nuts or other fattening toppings) plus lean protein like chicken or salmon (lunch).

Soup with lots of veggies and/or turkey/chicken added (we start with cans of soup and then add more veggies and cut up turkey burgers) OR lean meat with veggies for dinner.

LOCK AWAY dessert until you have one small piece at night, if you must.

CARDIO--running, elliptical, something 60 min per day, 6 days a week. Weights great but optional for weight loss purposes.

YOU WILL LOSE WEIGHT. EAT MORE VEGGIES. YOU WILL LOSE WEIGHT because they don't have as many calories and are very satisfying.

Stopping the nutrional nightmare in our country starts with you and me.

I'm busy but I make 10 salads for my husband and myself every sunday. Takes about an hour. Ingredients: 2 cups spinach or romaine, 1/2 to 1 c. brocolli or cauliflower, 1/2 to 1 c. diced red peppers, 1/2 to 1 c. shredded carrots, 1/2 c. garbanzo or other beans, 1/2 to 1 c. green peas, 1/2 to 1 c. tomatoes. Add lean protein. Measure 2 tablespoons light newman's own salad dressing, add extra lemon juice if you want more liquid or just use straight balsamic vinegar. If you replace your fatty lunch with this lunch, you will lose weight.

I wish to God the govt would control nutrition much more because most Americans are killing themselves and it is senseless.

Apparently the only people more scientifically ignorant and paranoid than the writer of this article are the ones commenting on it.

Here is the key to the whole biased article, which has been imported. The author doesn't work for MSNBC:

"Harvard researchers studied data collected from more than 86,000 women enrolled in the Nurses' Health Study. While they found no connection between women not affected by heart disease, they discovered that those living with heart disease who ate the most trans fats (2.5 percent of daily calories) were three times more likely to die of sudden cardiac death when compared to the women who ate the least (less than 1.0 percent of daily calories)."

Basically it says that it found no connection between healthy women and eating trans fats. The study instead found that those who have heart disease are at risk. Well duh, that is why after you have a heart attack or high blood pressure your doctor says you need to change what you eat.

This article is Greenpeace/econut bias that has no place on MSNBC.

I agree with the above comments on coconut oil.  There is a mass of information out there that says it's one of the healthiest oils, i.e. food,s that you can eat.  The saturated fat argument is simply not applicable when talking about virgin coconut oil and its benefits in the diet are substantial.  Too bad the voices of nutrition can't get their act together.  If you want to be healthy you're on your own...

Is there anything that is safe to eat anymore? Sugar is bad, salt is bad, fat is bad, eggs are bad, milk is bad, meat is bad, no-meat is bad, soft drinks are bad, non-soft drinks are worse, etc, etc. Constantly worrying about what you put into your mouth, that alone could make you sick. Eat what you want, but in moderation is the best way to live.

For years so called "heath experts" beat up America for eating butter and insisted that margarine was the only alternative -- and guess what -- they were full of $hit. Where are all of those "experts" now, probably died of heart attacks.

For once I would love to read an article that actually has science based facts! Where do you get that organic is the only "safe" food. Your article lost all credibility as did the author.

Eco-stuff aside... this article is basically saying that women with heart problems who continue to eat processed crap with 97 grams of fat per ounce are more likely to die than say... healthy women who eat mainly lean meats, whole foods and veggies? No freaking @!$%#. They spent time and school money to figure this out? Really?