Trans-fats banned
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- December
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Westchester County has banned trans fats from restaurant cooking oils.
There seems to be little question that trans fats aren’t good for you. The hydrogenated oils raise bad cholesterol, lower good cholesterol and have been linked to heart disease.
That doesn’t stop people from grumbling about the meddlesome nanny state. Only why would you want to eat trans fats?
The measure must now be ratified by the New York State Department of Health.
In the meantime, you can find out which restaurants in Westchester have voluntarily stopped cooking with trans fats. Here’s the list.
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Why would people want to eat transfats?
People eat (and smoke) lots of things that aren’t good for them.
Our society has a bad case of ADD. Right now, the flavor of the month is transfats. Lest we forget, transfats were introduced as a way to eliminate another type of fat. I suspect we’ll find in 15-20 years that whatever we’re replacing transfats with is just as bad or worse.
The issue is really people’s overall diets, which can’t be addressed by focusing on just one item. Not that it’s the government’s job to regulate what people eat in any case.
The only justification for this is that people often don’t know how their food is prepared in restaurants. Still, I think the transfat ban goes too far.