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Despite recent progress towards eliminating trans fat from food, some five billion people remain unprotected from its harmful impacts, thus increasing their risk of heart disease and death, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
Industrially produced trans fat - commonly found in packaged foods, baked goods, cooking oils and spreads - is responsible for up to 500,000 premature deaths from coronary heart disease each year, the UN agency said.
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Globally most #transfat elimination policies have been implemented in high-income countries. But this is not the case for low-income countries.
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