Wednesday, December 13, 2006

3271 Is trans-fat making you fat?

No. Too many calories and too little exercise is making you fat. If New Yorkers don't reduce their calories will it make any difference if foods have only healthy fat? No. So why the war on trans-fat when it is behavior and not ingredients? Will it cause Americans to eat less? If the war on fat content of prepared foods and snacks a few years back is any indication, it will make us heavier. The tasteless texture of snack food with zero fat and more sugar didn't help anyone, did it? Has a worst textured and more disappointing morsel been created than fat free ice cream?

Trans Fatty Acids accounted for about 2.5 percent of the calorie content of the U.S. diet prior to any changes prompted by the 2006 requirement for the inclusion of trans fat in nutrition labeling. Overconsumption will not be solved by getting this minor amount out of our diet.

Let's globally warm up the bird flu with the trans fatty acids and throw in some spinach and green onions for flavor to keep this scare alive.

Read or download Trans Fatty Acids and Heart Disease

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This makes me laugh. I read an article that stated Kentucky Fried Chicken was switching to a heart healthy oil- soy oil. Ok, so are we to assume that KFC is now a healthy food alternative? How many numb skulls are going to eat KFC because it's "healthy" for them? You can't save people from their own stupidity and laziness. You can't legislate every aspect of life to keep people from doing themselves in. Maybe it's part of natural selection. Only people who use their brains survive.

Anonymous said...

Sorry about the double comment. It told me it wouldn't accept it:( Blogger is have a melt down again today:D

Norma said...

You made my heart flutter Janene thinking I had all those comments! I'll be back to you when beta stops spitting me out.