In 1997 Dr. Arnold Kummerow said that he was given a list of four things that the Armada School Board wanted accomplished once he was hired. He has gone on to fulfill that list and a plethora of ...

The cash-strapped Maryland Historical Society, which recently had to trim its museum and library hours to two days a week, has appointed the head of a Towson-based firm that focuses on making history ...

In Fred Kummerow’s home in Urbana, a small slate plaque reads “I am still learning.” Michelangelo recorded this quote when he was 87 years old. For Kummerow, who is 99, these are the words he has ...

Fred A. Kummerow, a scientist who fought the food industry and prevailing medical practices for decades until his early warnings about the dangers of trans fats were finally vindicated, died May 31 at ...

Back in 1957, Fred Kummerow, a nutrition scientist at the University of Illinois, was analyzing the arteries of people who had died of heart attacks. Kummerow started analyzing the fat in the diseased ...

URBANA, Ill. — A University of Illinois professor who spent decades pushing for a federal ban on artery-clogging artificial trans fats has died at age 102. Family members say Fred A. Kummerow died May ...

Professor Kummerow's Memorial Service will be held Friday, Sept. 1, at 12:30 p.m. at the U of I, Biosciences Building, Urbana. Due to Professor Kummerow's hardships in securing his education, his ...

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, ...

A 98-year-old researcher argues that, contrary to decades of clinical assumptions and advice to patients, dietary cholesterol is good for your heart -- unless that cholesterol is unnaturally oxidized ...