Professor who campaigned to ban trans fats dies at 102

Fred Kummerow sounded equal parts relieved and content on that Tuesday afternoon in June 2015. The Food and Drug Administration had decided to ban artificial trans fats from the U.S. food supply, finally eliminating a key culprit in the rising rates of heart disease in the nation. Kummerow, then a 100-year-old University of Illinois professor, had […]Related:‘Drug tourists’ keep overdosing at this library. Here’s how employees are saving their lives.Health officials vow to develop drugs to curb the opioid epidemicMore than a third of teenage girls experience depression, new study says
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news