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

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

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garbon

Quote from: DGuller on November 10, 2013, 11:07:38 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 10, 2013, 11:06:08 PM
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?
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Quote from: garbon on November 10, 2013, 11:17:52 PM
Quote from: DGuller on November 10, 2013, 11:07:38 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 10, 2013, 11:06:08 PM
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?

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Quote from: Ideologue on November 10, 2013, 11:27:07 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 10, 2013, 11:17:52 PM
Quote from: DGuller on November 10, 2013, 11:07:38 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 10, 2013, 11:06:08 PM
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! :w00t:

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Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 10, 2013, 09:23:58 PM
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.
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Quote from: Ideologue on November 10, 2013, 09:19:09 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 10, 2013, 09:04:16 PM
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.

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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.
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Quote from: Capetan Mihali on November 11, 2013, 11:41:04 AM
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.
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