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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I think KFC already switched....their stuff ain’t nearly as good....
For some reason fat transsexuals earn less.....
Well if Obamacare will be used to stop risky activities........then bingo on AIDs!
We could have solved AIDS in the 80’s within a few years. It was just easier to use kid gloves on the problems.
When I was young we used peanut oil to fry chicken, but it’s expensive to use now.
Tell me about it. We priced the big containers of it at SAMs week before last. Won’t be frying any potatoes for a long time at that price! And, I’m not sure it’s as good for you as the coconut oil. And doesn’t, in our opinion, taste as good either.
That’s probably true, haven’t had peanut oil in years.
Any time I see that in an article, I am assured that euthanasia will come up as well.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” -C.S. Lewis
Time to reboot thinking on trans fats –- natural trans fats from dairy and beef are good
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2774807/posts
but it’s ‘mean’ to cows- so says PETA and their gubbamint cronies.
Dr. Aragon: [chuckling] Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties.
Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or... hot fudge?
Dr. Aragon: Those were thought to be unhealthy... precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.
Dr. Melik: Incredible.
Woody Allen, Sleeper, 1973
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