California bans trans fats in restaurants

[Tipsy]

LOS ANGELES — California, a national trendsetter in all matters edible, became the first state to ban trans fats in restaurants when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill Friday to phase out their use.

Under the new law, trans fats, long linked to health problems, must be excised from restaurant products beginning in 2010, and from all retail baked goods by 2011. Packaged foods will be exempt.

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Personally, I don't care if there are trans fats in my food or not, but I don't see why the government is regulating the ingredients of what we voluntarily choose to eat. I ingest quite a few unhealthy things and I do so in full knowledge of it and see no reason why anyone should stop me from doing so.

 

[Barney Stinson]

California is the breeding ground of death.

It always starts in cali and works it way out to the rest of the US. ****ing people and their hollywood and stars and need to look super sexy.

 

[Renzokuken]

You guys are a fat nation. And i guess since you also have no self-control, the government is asserting some control for you.

No offense <3

 

[DB]

You guys are a fat nation. And i guess since you also have no self-control, the government is asserting some control for you.

No offense <3

It's over consumption that's the problem. Not trans fat.

 

[x42bn6]

Unlike other fats, trans fats provide no benefit whatsoever to the human body - in fact, they lower levels of HDL (good) cholesterol and raise levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol. As a result, there really is no "safe" level nor is there an "adequate" level of consumption - it's simply bad, bad, bad.*

 

[Emperor Pan I]

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Personally, I don't care if there are trans fats in my food or not, but I don't see why the government is regulating the ingredients of what we voluntarily choose to eat. I ingest quite a few unhealthy things and I do so in full knowledge of it and see no reason why anyone should stop me from doing so.

Restaurants don't list their ingredients. They don't list what is in their food, and if I don't want to eat trans fats, I have no way of knowing if I'm going to be getting a plate with it. Plus it is terrible for you, and you can suck on trans fats all day, but why should lots of people unwillingly do so because a restaurant is lazy?

 

[Theroy]

Calgary the city here banned transfat's everywhere...

 

[Emperor Pan I]

You guys are a fat nation. And i guess since you also have no self-control, the government is asserting some control for you.

No offense <3

The thing to understand is Trans fats are extremely bad for you. There is absolutely no need for your body, and it provides nothing to you. Perfectly healthy people have an increase health risk with the consumption of trans fats. Whereas any food you eat has a natural guideline on how much you should/should not eat, it is universally recommended from any nutritional expert that we consume 0 trans fat, for a safe level.

So This is more akin to smoking, as sou people can suck on trans fat all you want, but a restaurant should either list all their ingredients and nutritional information(which they won't because most restaurant food is surprisingly not great), or not be able to serve us trans fats.

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and i don't know what you are singling out, Several European countries and Canada did it first, the U.S. is just behind. Although I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Australia is going to follow anyways.

 

[Gimmi]

Unlike other fats, trans fats provide no benefit whatsoever to the human body - in fact, they lower levels of HDL (good) cholesterol and raise levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol. As a result, there really is no "safe" level nor is there an "adequate" level of consumption - it's simply bad, bad, bad.*

/rolleyes nobody thought they were healthy, but thanks for posting anyway. serious. what a great contribution.

 

[Renzokuken]

and i don't know what you are singling out, Several European countries and Canada did it first, the U.S. is just behind. Although I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Australia is going to follow anyways.

Well i hear that proportionally, Australia is the fattest nation right now.

 

[Sogeking]

what ever happened to good ole boycott. I bet if a black guy got killed by transfats jesse jackson and the naabp would be all over it.

 

[Tipsy]

Restaurants don't list their ingredients. They don't list what is in their food, and if I don't want to eat trans fats, I have no way of knowing if I'm going to be getting a plate with it. Plus it is terrible for you, and you can suck on trans fats all day, but why should lots of people unwillingly do so because a restaurant is lazy?

Because no one is forcing you to eat at the restaurant; if you ask them if they use trans fats and they refuse to tell you, you have every right to leave the restaurant and not order any food from them. On the other hand, with a government ban on trans fats restaurants don't have the right to offer mutually beneficial arrangements with consumers who wish to have foods with trans fats. It comes down to, do you believe it is the responsibility of the government to curve all unhealthy activities?

 

[x42bn6]

/rolleyes nobody thought they were healthy, but thanks for posting anyway. serious. what a great contribution.

Even the most unhealthy products have upper limits - except trans fats. Actually that's false - the upper limit for trans fats is recommended to be "trace". It really is the worst of the worst - I can't really think of anything nutritionally worse.*

 

[Gimmi]

I can. Cyanide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[TrongaMonga]

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'll always giggle like a little girl to that.

 

[Galatia]

*Trans fats* means oil that has been fried many times. Banning it is the same as banning expired food - to name one example.

 

[x42bn6]

I can. Cyanide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That's not edible...

Trans fats aren't oils that have been fried - they're hydrogenised oils, usually triglycerides.

Let's just take a quick example:

is a trans acid while its opposite, the cis acid would have the two hydrogens in the same "direction" and consequently the two other parts are also in the same "direction". Cis-trans isomerism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

These two isomers have different properties. The main killing point of the trans fat is that it is solid at body temperature - the cis isomer is a liquid. I suppose one can see the problem of it now.*

 

[Speedy]

I think it's a healthy step in the wrong direction. Just banning trans fats won't help. People still ingest bottles full of high fructose corn syrup everyday, which is just as bad for you, but the kind of food and drink they're in is appealing to people. You can go to a 7-11 and almost everything in there is going to have trans fat or high fructose corn syrup in it. It's like trying to climb out of a bottomless pit.

Maybe it will work and if it does then good I'll support it.

what ever happened to good ole boycott. I bet if a black guy got killed by transfats jesse jackson and the naabp would be all over it.

You sound ignorant. Black people die from the **** all the time.

 

[Sogeking]

basically meaning its unimportant. if u eat foods that are high in trans fats then you are probably not eating healthy to begin with.

 

[Galatia]

That's Trans fats aren't oils that have been fried - they're hydrogenised oils, usually triglycerides.

Trans fats are indeed hydrogenised oils and they are very popular among fast food chains and restaurants, because they can be fried and fried and fried, again and again and again. They can also be found in processed butters (like margarine), dairy products and snacks. Their only value is the profit for those who sell them.