Whoever 's on that list of products with trans fats is going to be sweating bullets , '' said Harry Balzer , vice president for the NPD Group , a consumer research company based in Port Washington , N.Y. At least 30,000 and as many as 100,000 cardiac deaths a year in the United States could be prevented if people replaced trans fat with healthier nonhydrogenated polyunsaturated or monounsaturated oils , according to a 1999 joint report by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Brigham and Women 's Hospital in Boston .