The trouble with saturated fat is that it's just so moreish. Christine Evans-Pughe meets the chemists using emulsions and colloids to fool the addiction and sidestep obesity. A GLUT of grim statistics chart how our love of saturated fat, sugar and salt is spreading our waistlines and eroding our health. Obesity levels in some areas of the world - including the USA, the UK, eastern Europe, and China - have grown three-fold since 1980 according to the World Health Organisation. Wheezing and gasping behind (in stretchy tracksuits, no doubt...) are the four horsemen of this new apocalypse: type-two diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension/stroke, and certain forms of cancer.
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