Keep picking on us Yank's too, the Limey bastids!
"Fried foods from modern American-style takeaways were different, they argued, because these tended to have been cooked in re-used oils, higher in transfats."
Yeah, eat your sunflower oil sprinkled whateverthehell, you just shot your "balanced" theory to hell! Plus, how about spots in the world where people eat a high fat diet, like native Eskimo's and the Japanese, don't see them keeling over by the bushell! And, what always gets my goat, these idiots always neglect to state all people are NOT the same! People react differently to any chemical compound entering their bodies!
"In addition, such takeaways tended to contain much more salt, known to increase blood pressure and heart disease risk."
I think salt can affect blood pressure, but the link to heart disease in general in tenuous and fails to account for other factors, salt in and of itself is no culprit.