WHO calls for a complete removal of trans fat for 5 years

The world needs to eliminate industrially produced trans fat in 2023. This is a call from the World Health Organization (WHO) to announce a plan to prevent about 500,000 deaths every year due to Cardiovascular diseases.

WHO calls on governments to implement six strategic measures including review of trans fat sources and the basis for policy changes; Encourage replacing trans fat with more healthy fats and oils; regulating or enforcing measures to eliminate trans fat; assess and monitor the amount of trans fat in the food supply as well as the change in the amount of trans fat consumed in the population; raising awareness of the negative effects of trans fat on legislators, producers, suppliers and communities; strictly enforce policies and regulations.

WHO recommends reducing this fat percentage to only 1% of daily calorie intake.

Referring to the future generation, WHO Director-General Ted Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on the world's people to adopt methods to reduce fat in the diet recently published by WHO.

Mr. Tedros said these measures include encouraging healthier alternative foods, making laws that prohibit harmful materials, will help the fat move out of the food chain and mark a battle. Big win in the fight against cardiovascular disease.

In early May, WHO published new guidelines to reduce fat consumption for the first time since 2002, with WHO recommending reducing this fat percentage to only 1% of daily calorie intake. .

Trans fats are widely used in fast foods, fried and baked because they have a long shelf life. However, this type of fat adversely affects consumers, causing the risk of cardiovascular diseases to be 21% higher and the risk of death is 28% higher.

Saturated fat and metabolic imbalance of the body lead to loss of satiety and rapid obesity and a series of cardiovascular-related dangerous diseases such as atherosclerosis, reduced heart blood circulation leading to angina pectoris, stroke, heart attack, cancer .

According to WHO, while Western European countries have almost eliminated the use of industrial trans fats, even Denmark has banned all these fats, poorer regions are still facing challenges. Great recipe for handling the above threat. The list of such countries includes a number of countries in Eastern Europe as well as India, Pakistan, Iran, many African countries and Argentina.

In some countries, the level of trans fat in some popular street food is 20 times higher than the recommended daily intake.