FDA: trans fats no longer "generally recognized as safe."

[Ideologue]

Nanny state to the rescue!

It's the only sensible solution to human stupidity and weakness.

[Valmy]

Nanny state to the rescue!

It's the only sensible solution to human stupidity and weakness.

Is not being an expert on every intimate detail of every single food item for sale really an indication of stupidity?

[Ed Anger]

KFC hasn't been the same since they got rid of trans fats

[Ideologue]

Nanny state to the rescue!

It's the only sensible solution to human stupidity and weakness.

Is not being an expert on every intimate detail of every single food item for sale really an indication of stupidity?

I read labels.

[Caliga]

The Democrat attitude is "everyone is stupid but me."

The Republican attitude is "everyone is evil but me."

They both suck.

[Valmy]

I read labels.

Yeah, ok.  I have things to do and lack the time to spend hours researching everything I have contact with.

[The Brain]

Well I don't.

[Ideologue]

The Democrat attitude is "everyone is stupid but me."

The Republican attitude is "everyone is evil but me."

They both suck.

I think some other people are evil, not stupid.

And I need a nanny state to protect me from my foolishness.  Have you seen how I've lived my life?

[Ideologue]

I read labels.

Yeah, ok.  I have things to do and lack the time to spend hours researching everything I have contact with.

It takes you hours to read five or ten package labels? What, do you mean over the course of a lifetime?

No, I have to, to make sure they're not made with animal products.

[Camerus]

I started taking better care of my health this summer (lost 10 lbs since then) and have generally avoided most transfats since they are almost universally condemned by medical practitioners.  Would prefer to see them eliminated as far as possible.

[dps]

One of the biggest sources of transfats in most people's diets nowdays is margarine.

Ironically, when I was a kid, most nutritional experts recommended margarine as being better for you than butter.

[DGuller]

I started taking better care of my health this summer (lost 10 lbs since then) and have generally avoided most transfats since they are almost universally condemned by medical practitioners.  Would prefer to see them eliminated as far as possible.

Agreed.  The biggest thing I find annoying is that transfats are still very prevalent in stuff that doesn't have visible nutrition labels, like store-made pastries.

[Valmy]

I read labels.

Yeah, ok.  I have things to do and lack the time to spend hours researching everything I have contact with.

It takes you hours to read five or ten package labels? What, do you mean over the course of a lifetime?

No, I have to, to make sure they're not made with animal products.

To actually understand the implications of each ingredient?  Sure.

[Syt]

Syt, do you have an opinion about this ? 

T.I.M.M.A.Y. Newscorp, Ltd. pays me for news stories posted, not for my opinions.

[Ideologue]

I read labels.

Yeah, ok.  I have things to do and lack the time to spend hours researching everything I have contact with.

It takes you hours to read five or ten package labels? What, do you mean over the course of a lifetime?

No, I have to, to make sure they're not made with animal products.

To actually understand the implications of each ingredient?  Sure.

Fat: evil, protein: good, carbohydrates: chaotic neutral.  Easy.