Impressive Results

In 2003, that bastion of socialism, the FDA, mandated that food manufacturers list the amount of trans-fatty acids (TFA) in foods. The regulation didn’t actually take effect until 2006. A few locations (New York City being one) in a flagrant example of rampant nanny-state-ism (ok, not really a word) actually banned the use of synthetic TFAs.

So another bastion of socialism, the CDC, studied trans fats in white adults from 2000 to 2008.

In case you are living under a rock, TFAs are strongly linked to cardiovascular disease. In layman’s terms, eat bad stuff, get heart attack.

So in that eight year span, was there any effect?

A 58 percent reduction in TFAs. As we say in the tech biz, that’s non-trivial.