N.Y. Wants Trans Fats Off Restaurant Menus

RedNova ^ | Friday, 12 August 2005, 08:09 CDT | Unknown

[dila813]

so where is the study that says removing trans-fats from your diet will improve your waist line?????

Good Luck trying to enforce this on the greasy spoon on the corner.

[Stellar Dendrite]

I thought liberals were about "choice"? Whoops!


F-off socialists!!!!

[Jeff Chandler]

saturated meat and dairy fats

What in the world are saturated meats and dairy fats? I have never seen them listed on the nutritional information.

Hey, get that meat out of the water. It's getting saturated!

[jonrick46]

Michael Moore would never be able to stay in New York.

[dila813]

next they will ban Meats

[SoCar]

This is stupid beyond words.

[ApplegateRanch]

I thought liberals were about "choice"?

They are.

They choose to make everybody's life as miserable as theirs.

[ncountylee]

Maybe they will fine people with thick ankles, monster thighs and double orders of caboose.

[JRios1968]

If PETA has its way, that's next.

[JRios1968]

Maybe they will fine people with thick ankles, monster thighs and double orders of caboose.

Too many Liberal icons, starting with Hitlery, would get fines!

[Arnold Zephel]

Link

[Arnold Zephel]

I thought I would go ahead and post the table below from the link I posted previously.

Down Size Me Soso Whaley	Vs.	Super Size Me Morgan Spurlock
49	Age	33
60	Days eating only at McDonald’s	30
Tried every item at least once	Items eaten from McDonald’s menu	Tried every item at least once
3 (including occasional desserts)	Meals per day	3 + frequent snacks and desserts
Between 1,800 and 3,000	Calories per day	Between 5,000 and 5,500
Occasional	Exercise	None
0	Number of meals "Super Sized"	9
For every meal	Receipts Proving Every Purchase	None
"Excellent" and "Energized"	"How do you feel?"	"Sluggish" and "Depressed"
Lost 18 lbs	Weight Change	Gained 25 lbs
Fell 40 points	Cholesterol	Rose 65 points
Responsible eating and exercise yielded a healthy body and enjoyable lifestyle.	Bottom Line	Irresponsible consumption and no activity led to weight gain and ill health.

• To learn more about how Soso Whaley exposed Morgan Spurlock's "Super Sized" irresponsibility, click here.

[carumba]

Its not about health. They just want add some taxes to your food cost. Everybody has to eat. Next they are going to tax the water you drink and the air you breath. Yeah I'm the taxman.

[kaotic133]

Actually, Bush got the ball rolling on this one but NY is gonna screw it up big time, at least for themselves - Maybe the rest of us too, this is going to have a huge impact on McDonalds and Wendy's and all that greeezy nasty cheap stuff. Trans-fats don't really exist in nature except in a small amount in certain animal fats. They are created in a manufactured process so that they will last longer. Why? Mold doesn't even consider it food.

My dad, the avid runner/swimmer/golfer ex-army, actually got his cholesterol down about a hundred points just by cutting this one thing out of his diet.

Bush is the one that pushed through legislation that will force new food labeling to show exactly how much of this substance is in your food. It isn't in effect yet, but companies that DON'T use it have begun to voluntarily show it on their products. Off the top of my head, I am thinking about General Mills Cereals.

Ruby Tuesdays is a quality restaurant in my opinion, and they recently took the substance out of their menu. I actually like it better there now. It seems fresher, and my stomach doesn't yell at me afterwards - even if I get the spicy ribs & onion rings.

NY is just stupid. They're gonna create a mess by trying to speed up what the corporations are already doing. Bush changed things with a light touch, just by threatening to spread information - and the markets are "correcting themselves". NY, in trying to speed up the process, is only going to hike prices way up. This might even have a national effect as the companies scramble to change themselves overnight.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City wants restaurants to narrow their list of ingredients - and maybe some waistlines - by cutting out trans fats. The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said the voluntary change could also help fight the city's biggest killer, heart disease.

The New York State Restaurant Association supports the effort, Executive Vice President E. Charles Hunt said in a health department release Wednesday.

What th' heck do they want to do, put their own members out of business???

[yankeedame]

Oh boy! Does this mean they'll go back to cooking with real butter, real cream, and real eggs??

[rose]

No it is not stupid, and I am not a liberal freak on food.
I read a lot about foods from many sources, have a medical background, have a husband who has had 3 heart attacks, a quadruple bypass, stints, etc.
So I am doing everything in my power to help him. Trans fats, look up what it really is, the chemical formulations, etc. We are eating plastic. Trans Fats go to cellular membranes and they become more hardened, not as flexible as they should remain.
Read about it, I just have and my son-in-law is a professional lab and salesman, came from the medical profession, he told me a while back we were eating plastic, did not believe him.
But it is true, I am now in the process of throwing it all out and it is not hard to do.

[nygoose]

It's a miracle! New York City has finally learned to talk. It is now giving orders to the people directly. It no longer has to speak first to Mayor Bloomberg and get him to carry out the "City's" orders.

[The Red Zone]

In the quantities consumed by most people, it is barely a blip on medical science's screen. The old hydrogenated oils are giving way to the even older tropical oils. There's no really good way to make certain pastries without the hard fats.

[the invisib1e hand]

The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

If I had known this animal existed, would I have moved here? Oh, I suppose I would have, because it's New York.

Imagine a time when it's illegal to do anything that some insurance company decides is too risky...what will we do then, when virtually every activity, every thought and expressed intention is regulated either by persuasion or coercion or force...

Suicides will increase, violent outbursts will increase, alcoholism and mental illness will increase, lawsuits will increase, heavy handed government will increase to try to enforce more control over people to curb the chaos...why did I get started on this?

we'd better do all we can to make sure it doesn't happen.