Shellie
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Shellie
@Afterthefct
great grandma 👵 Hello! I am a 71 year old great grandma with a passion for life and liberty. My journey has taken me through many adventures and careers.



He warned the FDA about trans fats for 60 years. Then he sued them at 98. In 1957, Dr. Fred Kummerow published a paper in Science linking trans fats to heart disease. He found them in the arteries of every heart attack victim he studied. The food industry said trans fats were safer than butter. Kummerow's data said the opposite. Trans fats were in everything. Margarine, shortening, every processed food on the shelf. In 1968, he urged the American Heart Association to act. They ignored him. For decades, the AHA kept telling Americans to replace butter with margarine. Meanwhile Kummerow kept publishing. Trans fats raise LDL, lower HDL, and trigger inflammation in artery walls. He also discovered that oxidized cholesterol — not regular cholesterol — drives plaque buildup. The evidence was overwhelming. Nobody wanted to hear it. In 2009, at age 94, he filed a citizen petition demanding the FDA ban trans fats. The law required a response within 180 days. The FDA waited four years. So in 2013, at 98 years old, Fred Kummerow sued the FDA. In 2015, the FDA finally ruled trans fats were not safe and banned them from the food supply. The CDC estimates the ban prevents 20,000 heart attacks and 7,000 deaths every year. He spent 60 years proving they were killing us. They ignored him until he took them to court. He was 100 years old when he won. Question everything. #NSNG #NoSugarNoGrains #MetabolicHealth #FollowTheMoney

















