Posted on 11/07/2013 10:55:39 AM PST by Lockbox
(AP) FDA to ban artery-clogging trans fats By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON Heart-clogging trans fats have been slowly disappearing from grocery aisles and restaurant menus in the last decade. Now, the Food and Drug Administration is finishing the job.
The FDA announced Thursday it will require the food industry to gradually phase out artificial trans fats, saying they are a threat to people's health. Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said the move could prevent 20,000 heart attacks and 7,000 deaths each year.
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Guess the Government needs to look into addressing this to prevent twice as many deaths!
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/statistics/basics/ataglance.html
They can have my KFC when they pry open my cold greasy fingers...
Commissioner Hamburg to go after trans fats?............
Now that Your Gubbermint is on the case, no one shall ever die of a heart attack again. Yea!!!!!
Most commercially sold baked goods contain trans-fats. Will be interesting to see what, if, anything will be used as a replacement.
Yes I am totally against fat transsexuals, they have to ban those things.
KFC tasted better when it was fried in beef or pork lard.
Ditto McDonalds fries.
Maybe they’ll go back to how they cooked them in the ‘70’s and we’ll enjoy the improved taste?
Last week I was joking that next we are going to see government mandated food purchases ala Obamacare...and wadda ya know, heeere we go. Don’t tell me: Mooshelle is going to declare what grocery stores we can go to and what we can buy or face a fine.
Colonel Sanders was appalled at what John Y Brown did to his recipe and never endorsed since it was sold.
LOL. I just remember how it tasted when I was a kid. Hasn’t been good for the past 25 years at least. Certainly not worth the caloric expenditure.
I quit eating Mickey D’s fries when they switched to vegetable oil, too greasy and slimey.
*Now that Your Gubbermint is on the case, no one shall ever die of a heart attack again. Yea!!!!!*
We’ll only die from shock when we see the triple Obamacare premiums....
Yeah, they really suck now. I found making my own FF just spraying cut potatoes with Pam Olive Oil and oven baking does it for me.
How about a GD BUDGET?
ahh....so it was Mr. Phyllis George who wrecked the chicken...
Although it is a noble pursuit to reduce the factors that reduce human lifespan, one wonders if some of these efforts only prolong the problems until later years. A person could be kept from arterial disease by all kinds of preventative measures. However, science has not determined if all the preventable measure don’t just put off the disease until later years. At those later years, there are other progressive physical problems that the human body encounters. Some of those problems have no medical solution and do have quality of life issues. Is society willing to give aid to a population with increasing quality of life issues as greater numbers live to later years? Or, is this a set-up for euthanasia?
Oven baking is great isn’t it? My kids love oven baked sweet potatoes. I put the fries on a pan with a small lip and dollop 2 or 3 tbsp of coconut oil in and about them and then bake. Yummy.
Back to lard? Oh wait, that is saturated fat, and the ninnies think that is evil too.
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