“Yeah, I’ll miss those. NOT!”
That is NOT the point — the point is that the government shouldn’t be forcing us to avoid certain foods by banning them. This is not the question of some “poison” this is about an ingredient that some think contributes to high cholesterol — maybe.
The evidence against transfats is much stronger than "some people think maybe".
From Atkins..."More than 10 years of published research shows trans fats adversely affect cholesterol levels in the human body, causing ("bad") LDL cholesterol to go up and ("good") HDL cholesterol to go down. The all-important HDL/LDL ratio is therefore twice as unfavorable when trans fats are consumed as when plain old saturated fat is eaten in its place. And while saturated fat is something the human body needs, nobody needs a fat that didn't even exist before it was invented. Moreover, studies now show that lipoprotein, a particularly bad factor when it comes to arterial health, is significantly increased by consumption of trans fats. Need more bad news? Trans fats push up triglyceride levels. "