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Example 1 - Low Fat Diet
Morning - Corn flakes in low fat milk
Toast and margarine with peanut butter
Morning Tea
- Low fat cappuccino
Lunch - Small tub of low-fat yoghurt, Cup instant soup and sandwich
afternoon nibbles - 1 rice crackers with margarine
Dinner - skinless chicken salad with mayonaisse.
Dessert - icecream
Trans-Fat Break Down:
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Margarine:
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Total fat: 6gms
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Total trans: 0.3gms
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Peanut Butter:
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Total Fat: 3gms
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Total Trans: 0 - 0.5 gms*
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Yoghurt:
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Total Fat: 1gms
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Total Trans: 0
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Instant Soup:
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Total Fat: 1gms
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Total Trans: 0.3gms
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Mayonnaise:
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Total Fat: 1gms
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Total Trans: 0.15gms
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Icecream:
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Total Fat: 8gms
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Total Trans: 0 **
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Total Fat Estimate
20 gms with about (~7gms saturated)
Estimated Trans-Fats
0.75 - 1.25 gms
* - Peanut butter is probably trans-free in this country?
** - Icecream is usually free of man-made trans-fat but beware of non-dairy icecreams which may be high in man-made trans.
Comments
While relatively free of dangerous trans-fats, this diet has some worrying trends. Apart from ice-cream this diet is very low in saturated fats, and this could cause problems. Low levels of saturated fats mean high levels of nutrient depletion caused by unsaturated fats and carbohydrate consumption. Even the small amounts of trans-fats could still be dangerous as a result.
Example 2 - The junk diet
Morning - Last nights reheated pizza, 1 donut and coffee
Morning tea - Two Tim Tams and coffee
Lunch - Burger and Fries
Afternoon Tea - Coffee and muesli bar
Dinner - Take-away chinese: sweet & sour pork and rice
Dessert - Supermarket cheese -cake
Trans-Fat Break Down:
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Pizza:
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Total fat: 20gms
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Total trans: 0.5 - 5gms
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Donut:
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Total fat: 15gms
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Total trans: 2 - 5gms
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Donut:
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Total fat: 15gms
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Total trans: 2 - 5gms
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Tim-Tams:
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Total fat: 10gms
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Total trans: 0.1gms *
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Muesli Bar:
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Total fat: 5gms
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Total trans: 0.1gms
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Burger:
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Total fat: 30gms
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Total trans: 0.5 - 3gms
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Fries:
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Total fat: 25gms
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Total trans: 0.5 - 6gms
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Sweet & Sour Pork:
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Total fat: 25gms
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Total trans: 0.5 - 5gms
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Total fat Estimate:
145 gms (~20-30gms saturated)
Estimate Trans-Fats:
Up to 29gms
* Arnotts have a low trans-fat policy, but imitation Tim- Tams may not be so low!
Comments:
When hydrogenated soy-bean oil is used in take-away food, the levels of trans-fats get extremely high! The above diet while sounding deadly could be rendered much less dangerous by policies for take-away stores to only use unrefined oils which are naturally stable. If all the take-away metioned above was cooked in rice-bran oil and/or unrefined palm oils, the trans-fats levels would be negligible and the levels of saturated fats would be higher, thus protecting the consumers health further from nutrient depletion caused by high intakes of polyunsaturated fats.
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1 Comments
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Comment By: Colin Yong |
1:36PM 5/7/2007 |
| For what it's worth - Tip Top Cookies and cream flavour uses hydrogenated veg oil as stated in the lable. |
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Current Poll Results
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The milk I consume most is: |
Naturalea 4% unhomogenised (
12 %)
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Farmhouse (4%) unhomogenised (
4 %)
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Standard (3.3%) homogenised (
9 %)
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Low Fat Milk Homogenised (
31 %)
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Real Farm Milk - non pasteurised (
43 %)
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