What are the health consequences of banning trans-fats? Will our food be more heart healthful for it? What will be substituted for trans-fats and will a ban mean to people that the food is now safer to eat? These are some questions that need to be answered when one considers the ban-the-trans-fats issue. To discuss the science and to answer some of these questions:

• Dr. Robert Eckel, Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics at University of Colorado, Health Science Centre and American Heart Association immediate past president.