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

Started by Syt, November 07, 2013, 01:52:07 PM

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garbon

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grumbler

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garbon

Quote from: grumbler on November 08, 2013, 08:58:57 AM
Quote from: garbon on November 08, 2013, 08:32:43 AM
Health tips according to Ide. :lol:

Even a blind squirrel is right twice a day.

I'll defer to you, I've never had a chat with a squirrel.
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I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Tamas

Quote from: mongers on November 07, 2013, 02:38:39 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 07, 2013, 02:23:39 PM
Quote from: mongers on November 07, 2013, 02:22:28 PM
You'd be hard pressed to buy a food ingredient or product with transfats in it over here.

Though I've no idea what the situation is with restaurant food/eating out.

I think here you are hard pressed to buy foods without them.

Really, interesting contrast.

As far as I'm aware there's no legislation against them, just consumer pressure, government health messages and supermarkets advertisings products as not containing them.

Based on the amount of "OMG WE PUT HEALTHY STUFF INTO EVERYTHING AND MCDONALDS IS USING FREE RANGE CHICKENS" BS I see going around in the UK, my money on you consuming some pretty big amount of trans fats without even being told about it.

derspiess

Quote from: DGuller on November 07, 2013, 11:22:02 PM
Quote from: Pitiful Pathos on November 07, 2013, 06:07:53 PM
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.

:lol:
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Grey Fox

Quote from: Tamas on November 08, 2013, 11:10:31 AM
Quote from: mongers on November 07, 2013, 02:38:39 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 07, 2013, 02:23:39 PM
Quote from: mongers on November 07, 2013, 02:22:28 PM
You'd be hard pressed to buy a food ingredient or product with transfats in it over here.

Though I've no idea what the situation is with restaurant food/eating out.

I think here you are hard pressed to buy foods without them.

Really, interesting contrast.

As far as I'm aware there's no legislation against them, just consumer pressure, government health messages and supermarkets advertisings products as not containing them.

Based on the amount of "OMG WE PUT HEALTHY STUFF INTO EVERYTHING AND MCDONALDS IS USING FREE RANGE CHICKENS" BS I see going around in the UK, my money on you consuming some pretty big amount of trans fats without even being told about it.

You are right. You guys are having horse daily without knowing it.
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grumbler

The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

garbon

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

mongers

Quote from: Tamas on November 08, 2013, 11:10:31 AM
Quote from: mongers on November 07, 2013, 02:38:39 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 07, 2013, 02:23:39 PM
Quote from: mongers on November 07, 2013, 02:22:28 PM
You'd be hard pressed to buy a food ingredient or product with transfats in it over here.

Though I've no idea what the situation is with restaurant food/eating out.

I think here you are hard pressed to buy foods without them.

Really, interesting contrast.

As far as I'm aware there's no legislation against them, just consumer pressure, government health messages and supermarkets advertisings products as not containing them.

Based on the amount of "OMG WE PUT HEALTHY STUFF INTO EVERYTHING AND MCDONALDS IS USING FREE RANGE CHICKENS" BS I see going around in the UK, my money on you consuming some pretty big amount of trans fats without even being told about it.

:huh:

You can take the Hungarian out of Hungary, but ......


Actually it seems like we're slightly ahead of the average on this health issue, with the US trailing a bit; turns out six years ago many of the major supermarkets decided to eliminate them from their own products. 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6314753.stm

I know from experience it's hard to find them as an added ingredient in foods I buy. 

That's not to say there aren't problems with restaurant and hot take-away food, which don't need to state the ingredients in their products. 

But it's hardly the picture you paint.
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garbon

Actually I'd forgotten that Bloomberg had used clout to eliminate trans fats in NYC restaurants.

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

mongers

Quote from: garbon on November 08, 2013, 09:14:50 PM
Actually I'd forgotten that Bloomberg had used clout to eliminate trans fats in NYC restaurants.

Yeah, the rest of America seems to now be moving in the 'right direction', this week the FDA coming out against it and a couple of days ago I saw a health item/infomercial about them on ABC news. 
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Sounds like a myth.  Grumbler convinced somebody of something?
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derspiess

Quote from: garbon on November 08, 2013, 08:18:29 PM
K, gramps.

Now you did it.  Grumbler is gonna follow his normal pattern & inexplicably call you old.  Even though you're not.  But somehow that will make him feel better.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall