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

[garbon]

Hey I heard that a label can say 0 trans fats but still have up to .5 grams a serving. Can anyone confirm?

I just posted that immediately above.  Can't you fucking read?

Can you?

[Eddie Teach]

Only Luddites actually read posts instead of having their computer read it to them.

[Ideologue]

Hey I heard that a label can say 0 trans fats but still have up to .5 grams a serving. Can anyone confirm?

I just posted that immediately above.  Can't you fucking read?

Can you?

Camerus is back!

[Eddie Teach]

No, he's "Canadian". 

[katmai]

And he never left.

[Camerus]

Hey I heard that a label can say 0 trans fats but still have up to .5 grams a serving. Can anyone confirm?

I just posted that immediately above.  Can't you fucking read?

Can you?

Camerus is back!

[Siege]

Point taken.  But the only alternatives are eating trans fat loaded popcorn or waiting your whole life for the People's Design Bureau to figure it out.

You nailed it.
These mothefuckers need to learn how life was in soviet Russia.

[The Larch]

WTF are you talking about?  It's a perfect example of the profits from R&D leading to a superior outcome for consumers.  How can you possibly misconstrue this as a case of market inefficiency?

To my mind, performing that R&D three or four times because of proprietary industrial processes that cost millions of dollars to develop seems a mite wasteful.

It's not neccesarily bad to research the same thing from several different angles, maybe the first solution found isn't the best one and another team looking into it can find a better option.

You also need to protect the R&D investment and its possible benefits through some form of intellectual property rights.

[Capetan Mihali]

So how bad are trans fats for you, really?  I eat a fair amount of microwave popcorn (especially those 100-calorie bags), not much baked goods.

[Ideologue]

Better for us than cigarettes, I assume.

[Capetan Mihali]

Better for us than cigarettes, I assume.

Source?

[Eddie Teach]

Well, they're legal to sell to minors.

[Ideologue]

Better for us than cigarettes, I assume.

Source?

[garbon]

Well, they're legal to sell to minors.

I thought this was making them illegal for everyone.

[PDH]

So how bad are trans fats for you, really?  I eat a fair amount of microwave popcorn (especially those 100-calorie bags), not much baked goods.

They do mean things.  They lower HDL while increasing LDL.  When combined with other fats they make things even worse, some researchers say the saturated fat studies were flawed simply because the saturated fats were tested in conjunction with trans fats - which made the cholesterol results even worse.

It is not nanny state to ban them, non-naturally occurring trans fats harm the body.