Trans fat ban

[pnutts]

FDA to ban trans fats

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20131109/DA9V6V3G0.html

 

<"In the tug-of-war between public health and personal freedom, the Food and Drug Administration's decision to ban trans fats barely rates a ripple.

Hardly anyone defends the icky-sounding artificial ingredient anymore, two decades after health activists began warning Americans that it was clogging their arteries and causing heart attacks.

New York, Philadelphia, a few other localities and the state of California already have banned trans fat from restaurant food.

McDonald's, Taco Bell and KFC dropped it from their french fries, nachos and chicken years ago.

 

Growers are promoting new soybean oils that they say will eliminate, within a few years, the need for partial hydrogenation, the process that creates trans fats still used to enhance the texture of some pie crusts, cookies and margarine.">

 

Canada switched years ago - however the new oils aren't necessarily less harmful -especially soy.  The food oil industry knew half a century ago -before promoting trans fats -that trans fats were bad for you - just they suppressed the 100+ studies proving it was bad and only allowed a few favorable studies ( paid for by them ) to be published. The reason $$$$$$

 

The same now with soy - the studies that perported health benefits were done with one word that has been left out  " fermented " Yes studies were on fermented soy not regular soy which is a lot cheaper. $$$$$ again.  Unfermented soy slows down immune system. 

 

Research time again.

Edited November 9, 2013 by pnutts