Heart Association on Trans-Fat

simple rule: avoid transfat!

From USA TODAY:

"The American Heart Association has become the first big health group to urge a specific limit on trans fats in the diet — less than 1% of total calories — in new guidelines released Monday.

Also for the first time, the organization's dietary guidelines include lifestyle recommendations, including an emphasis on getting exercise and not smoking.

A panel of specialists in nutrition and heart disease reviewed more than 90 studies to update the dietary advice the association released in 2000. The guidelines are for healthy Americans ages 2 and older."

From CNN:

"The American Heart Association has become the first big health group to urge a specific limit on trans fats in the diet -- less than 1 percent of total calories -- in new guidelines released Monday."