Symposium 2005

Examining the Latest Scientific Evidence on Trans Fats

The Dairy Farmers of Canada’s fifth annual Nutrition and Health Symposium, Examining the Latest Scientific Evidence on Trans Fats, featured an important and very timely topic. The adverse effects on health of trans fatty acids are well established and well known. That’s why the Canadian government has legislated that, by the end of 2005, trans fat content must be included on the nutrition labels of most prepackaged foods sold in Canada. This will likely result in increased consumer interest in trans fats, and increased consultations with health professionals.

This year’s symposium – held in November, 2005, in Montreal, Toronto, and Moncton, with an attendance of almost 500 dietitians from across Canada – featured four outstanding speakers addressing the complex issues surrounding trans fats. The entire symposium is re-created here on the Internet, for those of you who missed it the first time around or those who just wish to revisit this very important issue.

Symposium 2005 Presentation Summaries

  • Composition and Sources of Trans Fat

    Composition and Sources of Trans Fats in the Canadian Diet Trans fatty acids from two sources are present in the diet: those from the industrial, partial hydrogenation of cis unsaturated fats and oils and those from the natural, bacterial hydrogenation of unsaturated fatty acids in the...

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  • The Impact of Natural and Industrial Trans Fats on Cardiovascular Risk

    The impact of dietary saturated fatty acids (SFA) on the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been well established over the last 50 years. Recently, trans fatty acids (TFA) in foods have attracted worldwide attention owing to their potentially undesirable effects on human health....

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  • Labelling and Task Force on Trans Fat

    Update on Canada’s Labelling Regulations and the Progress of the Canadian Task Force on Trans Fat Health Canada, along with the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, has assembled the Trans Fat Task Force, comprised of various stakeholders (including representatives from the food...

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  • The Beneficial Role of CLA in Breast Cancer

    Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), found naturally in dairy products and ruminant meats, refers to isomers of C18 fatty acids with conjugated double bonds. CLA inhibits the development of mammary tumors induced in rats by carcinogen treatment. Both the predominant natural isomer cis-9,...

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