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<strong>Milk</strong> <strong>and</strong> dairy products <strong>in</strong> human nutrition<br />

countries <strong>in</strong> 1996 <strong>and</strong> the average daily <strong>in</strong>take varied from about 1.5 g <strong>in</strong> Greece<br />

<strong>and</strong> Italy to 5.4 g <strong>in</strong> Icel<strong>and</strong> (Stender, Astrup <strong>and</strong> Dyerberg, 2008, <strong>and</strong> references<br />

there<strong>in</strong>). <strong>FAO</strong> <strong>and</strong> WHO (2010a) reported that “<strong>in</strong> adults, the estimated average<br />

daily rum<strong>in</strong>ant TFA <strong>in</strong>take <strong>in</strong> the US is about 1.5 g for men <strong>and</strong> 0.9 g for women.<br />

Average <strong>in</strong>take for both men <strong>and</strong> women, is 1.2 g, which corresponds to 0.5 % E”.<br />

Consider<strong>in</strong>g these variations, estimates of TFA <strong>in</strong>take should be <strong>in</strong>terpreted with<br />

caution (Stender, Astrup <strong>and</strong> Dyerberg, 2008). Mozaffarian, Aro <strong>and</strong> Willett (2009),<br />

who reviewed the evidence for effects of TFA consumption on CHD, found that<br />

the evidence from observational studies suggests that higher CHD risk is related to<br />

iTFA consumption rather than rTFA. “Because rum<strong>in</strong>ant fat conta<strong>in</strong>s low levels of<br />

TFA (usually

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