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There's a public health trade-off here though, because the impact is entirely among the old.
So, do we ban trans fats purely for the benefit of the oldest, and probably least-healthy Americans?
Source: cepr.org/voxeu/columns/
Study: sciencedirect.com/science/articl
Review (reaches similar conclusions):
Interesting!
That was a quick result.
Almost too quick, unless there were already underlying issues in the population that this move helped with...
RFK Jr. himself declared recently that the FDA’s “war on public health” was about to end.
Yes, a ~4% reduction in CVD mortality seems huge when scaled like this, but hopefully people will read the y-axis and avoid being confused.
Did people like the flavor of tran-fats? I thought it was about industries preference for cheap and easy to work with fat.
What other factors could impact this ? A first high in meat protein and low in processed foods is good for you right mate ? High levels of processed foods in conjunction with other co-morbidities would influence this chart
Effect seems too large to be plausible. I want to see other instrumental variables.
Interesting that the trend begins before the ban. Could it be attributed to something else or perhaps companies adjusted early…?
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The populations being measured every year were different. Tons of people moved out of the city.
that's way too simplistic: it's the combination of insulin resistance and trans fat that is dangerous. Meaning, less sugar and high trans fat is actually super healthy
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I really dislike plots where a ~10% difference is shown as a radical drop.
The study:
The study examines the impact of banning artificial trans fats in restaurant food on cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality rates in New York State (NYS). Artificial trans fats have been linked to increased risk of heart disease and stroke.
The study found that the
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Funny how trans fats were originally promoted by nutrition experts as a ‘healthy alternative’ to saturated fats. Apparently they are still taken as a health supplement, though by another name (CLA).
My grandmother was told to switch from schmaltz to trans fat for frying. Silly doctors.
As a corollary (unintended homonym with coronary), the establishment is aggressively attempting to lower CVD by way of lowering cholesterol with statins, even though the lowest mortality rates are associated with total cholesterol of about 190-270.
Those trans fats are effecting
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The major drop was before the implementation. So is the real answer education? Or are there other factors? Was it demographics, younger population? Because the ban itself did not trigger the decline.
If you want to ban trans fat, that is fine just as long as the government is not involved.
But it seems that also it was already going down right?
I mean, at year 0 of being implemented already had such a big effect? Especially when cardiovascular diseases are caused by chronic behaviors a lot more than if you just eat a lot of burguers on one weekend.
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The Berlin Wall fell for a reason. It would be foolish to consider trying to rebuild it - and all it represents - today.
Isn’t it the case that trans fats have H atoms on both sides of the C chain?
That we don’t have the biological ability to handle that type of structure (neither do microbes, which is why this stuff keeps forever)?
Who knows what the cumulative effect is.
Probably a lot of confounding factors that make trans fat-banning counties more similar to each other and dissimilar to those that didn't.
I don't think people like the taste of trans fats as compared to other saturated fats. And the stuff is just poison.
because there were cops at the county border making sure no trans fat products got in.
Come on, man! This is very bad reasoning.
Looks like there is a confounding at play here - otherwise why year 0 is already down quite significantly for the blue line? CVD was falling prior to Year 1, or am I reading it wrong?
國有器官｜乾淨世界 現正熱播
20年前，兩個善良陽光的年輕人在大陸被警察強制失蹤，他們的家人開始了一段艱險的歷程，尋找他們的下落。
影片通過大量第一手證詞和獨家採訪，真實呈現隱秘的國家犯罪，中共以國家之力發起大規模強摘器官的行為，以及大陸民眾在暴政下的互助守望， 和對傳統信仰的回歸。
Interesting that in the chart the divergence started at year zero. I would be interested to know who did the study and where it is published. Without a source it is just a claim. Interesting if from a peer reviewed journal though.
Doesn’t look like that much of a drop, makes you wonder if other more important factors were in play
I am ok with bans if there are readily available and good alternatives to the things being banned
Any way to transform this data to something like life-years saved? Feels like that would be easier to understand
Curiously, it appears to have had no effect on obesity levels:
Love me some good ole diff-in-diff when the results are so graphically elegant
This is not a good thing because it strains social security and Medicare as the old life longer
The 9th Countdown report on health and climate change shows that deaths from extreme heat, hunger, and disease, all are rising because of climate change.
Just coincidence 
But seriously, when do people get heart attacks? Its tends to be when they are old...
But seriously, when do people get heart attacks? Its tends to be when they are old...
Or did places that banned trans fats have more media coverage of the issues which increased awareness of healthy eating? Places that didn't ban it probably ignored all the hoopla so we wouldn't expect a change there.
This good news, but I still need to report a chart crime.
Is year 0 the point in time in which is was enacted, or the death rate of the first rate it was enacted? Because this chart shows a -1 to 0 decrease anyways, implying the ban is unrelated if it’s the former.
we have more than sufficient data to conclude trans fats are bad
it is one of the more proven concepts in nutrition
國有器官｜乾淨世界 現正熱播
20年前，兩個善良陽光的年輕人在大陸被警察強制失蹤，他們的家人開始了一段艱險的歷程，尋找他們的下落。
影片通過大量第一手證詞和獨家採訪，真實呈現隱秘的國家犯罪，中共以國家之力發起大規模強摘器官的行為，以及大陸民眾在暴政下的互助守望， 和對傳統信仰的回歸。
I got hung up in your intro, initially thinking you were discussing a different Trans topic. Interesting data; thanks for sharing.
Am I reading the graph wrong? Looks like The basically continued on same trend. Maybe healthier population banned trans fat.
Fake graph? You ban trans fat fine. But overnight drop? 
It's a good thing nothing else major happened that affected American mortality during that time. That could really skew the numbers.
i am smarter than Cremieux (as just one proof, I dont believe in climate change, he does), therefore i am skeptical of this supposed result.
