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N.Y. Wants Trans Fats Off Restaurant Menus
RedNova ^ | Friday, 12 August 2005, 08:09 CDT | Unknown

Posted on 08/12/2005 10:44:41 PM PDT by dila813

N.Y. Wants Trans Fats Off Restaurant Menus


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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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; US: New York
KEYWORDS: fatpolice; foodpolice; nyc
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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.

1 posted on 08/12/2005 10:44:42 PM PDT by dila813
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I thought liberals were about "choice"? Whoops!


F-off socialists!!!!


2 posted on 08/12/2005 10:46:34 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite (The presence of "peace" is the absence of opposition to socialism -- Marx)
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To: dila813
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!

3 posted on 08/12/2005 10:56:44 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Peace Begins in the Womb)
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To: dila813

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


4 posted on 08/12/2005 11:00:09 PM PDT by jonrick46
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To: Jeff Chandler

next they will ban Meats


5 posted on 08/12/2005 11:00:53 PM PDT by dila813
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To: dila813
This is stupid beyond words.
6 posted on 08/12/2005 11:02:20 PM PDT by SoCar (I fully support John Roberts.)
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To: Stellar Dendrite
I thought liberals were about "choice"?

They are.

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

7 posted on 08/12/2005 11:19:41 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The Marching Morons are coming...and they're breeding more Democrats beyond all reason!)
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To: dila813

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


8 posted on 08/13/2005 12:30:49 AM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: dila813

If PETA has its way, that's next.


9 posted on 08/13/2005 1:21:24 AM PDT by JRios1968 (If you can't laugh at yourself, someone else will do it for you.)
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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!

10 posted on 08/13/2005 1:22:37 AM PDT by JRios1968 (If you can't laugh at yourself, someone else will do it for you.)
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To: dila813
Link
11 posted on 08/13/2005 1:30:57 AM PDT by Arnold Zephel
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To: 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.



12 posted on 08/13/2005 1:43:19 AM PDT by Arnold Zephel
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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.
13 posted on 08/13/2005 2:07:32 AM PDT by carumba
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To: dila813

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.


14 posted on 08/13/2005 2:48:13 AM PDT by kaotic133
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To: 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.

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???

15 posted on 08/13/2005 2:54:46 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hey, Cindy Sheehan, grow up!)
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To: ApplegateRanch
Oh boy! Does this mean they'll go back to cooking with real butter, real cream, and real eggs??


16 posted on 08/13/2005 3:40:08 AM PDT by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: SoCar
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.
17 posted on 08/13/2005 6:43:49 AM PDT by rose
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To: dila813
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.
18 posted on 08/13/2005 6:50:18 AM PDT by nygoose
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To: rose

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.


19 posted on 08/13/2005 6:55:08 AM PDT by The Red Zone (Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
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To: dila813
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.

20 posted on 08/13/2005 6:59:37 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (see my FR page for a link to the tribute to Terri Schaivo, a short video presentation.)
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