Posted on 08/12/2005 10:44:41 PM PDT by dila813
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.
To comply, chefs would have to dump many margarines and frying oils, and possibly reworking long-held recipes for baked goods.
The New York State Restaurant Association supports the effort, Executive Vice President E. Charles Hunt said in a health department release Wednesday.
The fats, found in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, raise diners' chance of developing heart disease in much the same way that saturated meat and dairy fats do, raising overall and bad cholesterol while lowering good cholesterol, American Heart Association President Robert Eckel said in the release.
The Food and Drug Administration has already targeted trans fats. Nationwide, all foods containing the chemically modified oils must be labeled beginning next January.
Some workers and diners were skeptical of the city plan.
"Labeling is as far as you want to go. You don't want to be telling people what to eat," Brooklyn waitress Karen Quam told The New York Times.
The city's request came two years after it outlawed smoking in bars, restaurants and offices, citing concerns about the ill effects of secondhand smoke.
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On the Net:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/cardio/cardio-transfat.shtml
Good Luck trying to enforce this on the greasy spoon on the corner.
I thought liberals were about "choice"? Whoops!
F-off socialists!!!!
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!
Michael Moore would never be able to stay in New York.
next they will ban Meats
They are.
They choose to make everybody's life as miserable as theirs.
Maybe they will fine people with thick ankles, monster thighs and double orders of caboose.
If PETA has its way, that's next.
Too many Liberal icons, starting with Hitlery, would get fines!
Down Size Me Soso Whaley |
Vs.
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Super Size Me Morgan Spurlock |
49
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Age
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33
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60
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Days eating only at McDonalds
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30
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Tried every item
at least once |
Items eaten from McDonalds menu
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Tried every item
at least once |
3 (including occasional desserts)
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Meals per day
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3 + frequent snacks and desserts
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Between 1,800 and 3,000
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Calories per day
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Between 5,000 and 5,500
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Occasional
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Exercise
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None
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0
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Number of meals "Super Sized"
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9
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For every meal
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Receipts Proving Every Purchase
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None
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"Excellent" and "Energized"
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"How do you feel?"
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"Sluggish" and "Depressed"
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Lost 18 lbs
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Weight Change
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Gained 25 lbs
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Fell 40 points
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Cholesterol
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Rose 65 points
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Responsible eating and exercise yielded a healthy body and enjoyable lifestyle.
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Bottom Line
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Irresponsible consumption and no activity led to weight gain and ill health.
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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.
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???
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.
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.
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