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Titles appearing in SciTech Book News — December 2007
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Trans fats in foods.

Ed. by Gary R. List et al.
AOCS Press, ©2007    227 p.    $80.00    QP752
978-1-893997-96-7

Concerns over the negative health effects of trans fatty acids (TFA) — lurking as partially hydrogenated vegetable oils on food labels — has resulted in the mandatory labeling of foods with a greater than 0.5 grams level in North America. List (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Peoria, Illinois) and scientists with the Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, and Health Canada introduce nine chapters by international scientists that review the biochemistry of such fats and evidence for their contribution to cardiovascular and other diseases. Contributors also address controversies regarding this relationship; consumption trends; analytical techniques; and healthier formulations of formerly TFA-laden products, e.g., margarine. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)