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Get the Trans Fat Out: 601 Simple Ways to Cut the Trans Fat Out of Any Diet
by Suzanne Havala Hobbs, DrPH, MS, RD

This book provides some easy ways to eliminate trans fat from your meals, an important step you can take to protect and improve your and your loved ones' health.

This guide will explain what trans fats are, why they are dangerous and give you 601 easy-to-follow ways to cut them out of your diet. Included with the book is a 66-page food guide and fat gram counter that tells you how much trans fat and saturated fat is found in common grocery store and restaurant foods.

From the cover:

Discover the Dangers of Trans Fat and Learn How to Avoid It
The media and health professionals are loudly proclaiming the health risks of trans fat, because even the smallest amounts in your diet can raise your risk of heart disease and other health conditions. But trans fats-especially from partially hydrogenated oils-are found everywhere! From the grocery store shelves to restaurant menus, trans fat works its way into the foods we eat and jeopardizes our health.

Get the Trans Fat Out shows you how you can identify and avoid these damaging fats-without sacrificing taste or convenience. Inside you'll find all the information you need to protect you and your family from trans fat, including:

• Key health and nutrition information on the risks of trans fat

• Tips on grocery shopping for healthy products

• Delicious recipes with zero trans fat

• Information on how to stay healthy when eating at restaurants

• A complete, easy-to-understand guide to the trans fat content of many common products and menu items from fast food chains

For every health-conscious consumer, Get the Trans Fat Out is the definitive resource to living trans fat free.

From the book:

The table of contents

Preface
Introduction

Part I: A Trans Fat Primer
1. Understanding Trans Fat
2. Trans Fat and Your Health
3. Regulations and Label Logic
4. Putting It All Together

Part II: Techniques for Getting the Trans Fat Out
5. Get the Trans Fat Out of Your Kitchen
6. Get the Trans Fat Out of Bread and Breakfast
7. Get the Trans Fat Out of Salads, Dressings, and Dips
8. Get the Trans Fat Out of Soups and Sauces
9. Get the Trans Fat Out of Entrees and Side Dishes
10. Get the Trans Fat Out of Snacks, Appetizers and Sandwiches
11. Get the Trans Fat Out of Desserts, Baked Goods, and Treats
12. Get the Trans Fat Out When You Eat Out
13. Get the Trans Fat Out of Your Life

Part III: The Food Guide and Fat Gram Counter

Acknowledgments
Index

The preface from Get the Trans Fat Out:

Trans fat is what happens when food manufacturers add hydrogen to vegetable oil, and it is very bad for you. It contributes to obesity, and even the slightest amount in your diet raises your risk of heart disease, according to a major report by the Institute of Medicine. Eating trans fat is worse for your health than eating lard.

The problem: Trans fat is everywhere. It’s in cakes, cookies, pies, muffins, fast-food french fries and sandwiches, frozen entrees, salad dressings, margarine, and more. And it’s elusive. Nutrition information isn’t posted on the labels of fast-food products, and until recently, food packagers didn't have to reveal the amount of trans fat in their products on the foods’ label. Clues on ingredient labels - the presence of partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, for example - have long been the only practical means of learning whether a product contains harmful trans fats. Until now.

In January 2006, the federal government put into effect new regulations requiring food manufacturers to list on the food labels the amount of trans fat contained in their products. This change has set into motion a flurry of new trans fat-free product development and the reformulation of other products.

But the world won't be rid of trans fat any time soon. Trans fat is ubiquitous because the food industry hasn't yet found an economical substitute that functions the same way. Fast-food companies will continue to use trans fat, and while the new labeling law will make trans fat easier to find, in packaged foods, most of us will still need help understanding how best to dodge it, which products are okay to eat, and how to adopt and maintain a trans-fat-free lifestyle. This book provides this information along with a quick reference fat counter that puts the newly available trans fat content of popular products at your fingertips.

In this book you’ll find

• an explanation of what trans fat is, how it came to be, and how it affects your health.

• advice on how to choose foods free of trans fat.

• a complete, up-to-date fat counter listing the grams of trans fat and saturated fat in a comprehensive range of food products.

• brand-specific and generic food information to help you get started.

• Most important, advice that puts health and nutrition information into perspective, highlighting the most pertinent facts and explaining what they mean in terms of shopping, preparing meals, and choosing foods away from home.

The biggest challenge most of us face is how to eat. My aim in this book is to give you the information and tools you need to help yourself eat well and stay healthy. Getting the trans fat out is one vital step.

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