Customer helplines that use recorded menus that promise to put me through to the right person but never do - and being ill. Oh, and did I mention customer helplines :)
I thought its been known for quite a while that trans fats are bad for every one which is why most food producers/processors have either removed them or are removing them from their products.
Most people agree that there are good fats and bad fats and trans fats are as bad as they get and I dont think that is disputed by anyone any more, bar a few margarine salesmen perhaps :wink:
Certainly evidence that they contribute to heart disease risk http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19424218
but interestingly a 2012 metanalysis didn't find a link with glucose levels (though again raised LDL and lowered HDL)
Increased TFA intake does not result in changes in glucose, insulin, or triglyceride concentrations but leads to an increase in total and LDL-cholesterol and a decrease in HDL-cholesterol concentrations. There is no evidence to support a potential benefit of the reduction of dietary TFA intake on glucose homeostasis
"In another study that followed almost 85,000 female nurses for 16 years, trans fat intake was shown to increase the risk of diabetes by 39% in the nurses that consumed the most trans fats".
Bit more reading matter, report that includes details where trans fats are to be found (and manufacturers/supermarkets that have removed them from their own products)
(2011) http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 51306.html