What we risk for taste - Trans fats make fast foods delicious but dangerous
"....Last month, researchers writing in the New England Journal of Medicine came up with a startling calculation buried deep in their exhaustive review of dozens of trans fat studies published over more than a decade.

Near elimination of artificially produced trans fats would avert between 72,000 and 228,000 heart attacks and deaths from coronary heart disease in the U.S. each year.

"The evidence for harm is considerable," said lead author Dariush Mozaffarian, a cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "There really is little reason for having them in the food supply."

Banning the substances, which are devoid of nutritional value, should be considered, said Mozaffarian, who also works as an instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

"The wisest thing to do is to eliminate anything made in partially hydrogenated oils," he said...."