@USATODAY: #BREAKING FDA will require food companies to phase out trans fats
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Acg67
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Yay! Government overreach.
Do people have no ability to choose products that contain or don't contain Trans fats?
Do people have no ability to choose products that contain or don't contain Trans fats?
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I'm a fan. The problem is there are a lot of products that have less than half a gram and list zero. When if you look at the ingredients there are obviously some. This is deceptive and I shouldn't have to look at the ingredients to figure this out. End rant.0
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I can dig it.0
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But my trans fat experience!
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if this all goes down that path, I want someone to explain the 3 sea shells before I abandon my charmin.0
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Yay! Government overreach.
Do people have no ability to choose products that contain or don't contain Trans fats?
In this case, I'm kind of on the bandwagon. Trans fats aren't good for you. They aren't the same as saturated fats, which do have their positive place in the body's food chain.
And no, humanity has proven that it cannot choose products that don't contain trans fats. Companies have proven they will continue to make them if they are allowed.0 -
discretekim wrote: »I'm a fan. The problem is there are a lot of products that have less than half a gram and list zero. When if you look at the ingredients there are obviously some. This is deceptive and I shouldn't have to look at the ingredients to figure this out. End rant.
Then petition to change labeling laws?
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Hey! Why all the trans hate?
*fist in the air for all my LGBT brothers and sisters*
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Yay! Government overreach.
Do people have no ability to choose products that contain or don't contain Trans fats?
In this case, I'm kind of on the bandwagon. Trans fats aren't good for you. They aren't the same as saturated fats, which do have their positive place in the body's food chain.
And no, humanity has proven that it cannot choose products that don't contain trans fats. Companies have proven they will continue to make them if they are allowed.
So ban beef, esp grass-fed beef due to Trans fats?0 -
Yay! Government overreach.
Do people have no ability to choose products that contain or don't contain Trans fats?
In this case, I'm kind of on the bandwagon. Trans fats aren't good for you. They aren't the same as saturated fats, which do have their positive place in the body's food chain.
And no, humanity has proven that it cannot choose products that don't contain trans fats. Companies have proven they will continue to make them if they are allowed.
Do they make them cause they are allowed are because it's profitable to do so? If you made it unprofitable ie it didn't sell well, they'd stop0 -
Yay! Government overreach.
Do people have no ability to choose products that contain or don't contain Trans fats?
In this case, I'm kind of on the bandwagon. Trans fats aren't good for you. They aren't the same as saturated fats, which do have their positive place in the body's food chain.
And no, humanity has proven that it cannot choose products that don't contain trans fats. Companies have proven they will continue to make them if they are allowed.
So ban beef, esp grass-fed beef due to Trans fats?
I don't think they are talking about naturally occurring trans fats. For one they aren't even bad for you, and may be beneficial. But added man made trans fats are all bad and shouldn't be eaten.0 -
discretekim wrote: »Yay! Government overreach.
Do people have no ability to choose products that contain or don't contain Trans fats?
In this case, I'm kind of on the bandwagon. Trans fats aren't good for you. They aren't the same as saturated fats, which do have their positive place in the body's food chain.
And no, humanity has proven that it cannot choose products that don't contain trans fats. Companies have proven they will continue to make them if they are allowed.
So ban beef, esp grass-fed beef due to Trans fats?
I don't think they are talking about naturally occurring trans fats. For one they aren't even bad for you, and may be beneficial. But added man made trans fats are all bad and shouldn't be eaten.
If I assemble the molecule in a lab, it's poison?
If I grow it in a cow, it's manna from heaven?
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discretekim wrote: »Yay! Government overreach.
Do people have no ability to choose products that contain or don't contain Trans fats?
In this case, I'm kind of on the bandwagon. Trans fats aren't good for you. They aren't the same as saturated fats, which do have their positive place in the body's food chain.
And no, humanity has proven that it cannot choose products that don't contain trans fats. Companies have proven they will continue to make them if they are allowed.
So ban beef, esp grass-fed beef due to Trans fats?
I don't think they are talking about naturally occurring trans fats. For one they aren't even bad for you, and may be beneficial. But added man made trans fats are all bad and shouldn't be eaten.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0009434
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So I was about to tell you to do research but I read mine wrong. Naturally occurring are just not nearly as bad. They still have some risks. But man made are much worse. And they shouldn't be eaten and I think labeling is deceptive.0
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Our government...pathetic!-2
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I'm thrilled about this!!!!0
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anything that gets McDonalds to start frying their fries in lard again...the way God intended to cook fries.0
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discretekim wrote: »Yay! Government overreach.
Do people have no ability to choose products that contain or don't contain Trans fats?
In this case, I'm kind of on the bandwagon. Trans fats aren't good for you. They aren't the same as saturated fats, which do have their positive place in the body's food chain.
And no, humanity has proven that it cannot choose products that don't contain trans fats. Companies have proven they will continue to make them if they are allowed.
So ban beef, esp grass-fed beef due to Trans fats?
I don't think they are talking about naturally occurring trans fats. For one they aren't even bad for you, and may be beneficial. But added man made trans fats are all bad and shouldn't be eaten.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0009434
From your own link:
"CLA is a minor animal trans fatty acid. The effect of dietary CLA on cholesterol will be negligible if we assume that our model is correct."0 -
I think it'd be great if they did this since trans fat has been proven to be so harmful and companies are often secretive about foods they add it to. That being said, I'm not getting excited just yet; they've been trying to phase them out for a long time now! It's really up to the companies to remove them, which some have been doing and I praise them for that!0
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