Ban on Trans Fats

Friendly's has joined other restaurant chains to make its food trans fat free.  

In a move to keep the public healthy, the AMA is supporting bans on artificial trans fats in food and text messaging while driving. ...  

A week or two ago we wrote a post complaining that Tofutti uses partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (trans fats) in their cream cheese alternative.  I was expressing some frustration that Tofutti does make a version of the cream cheese without the trans fats, but the one that is most easily...  

In an effort to help Americans maintain good health and lower the risk of the nation's number one killer, heart disease, the American Medical Association (AMA) today adopted policy that supports legislation to ban the use of artificial trans fats in restaurants and bakeries nationwide.  

In an effort to help Americans maintain good health and lower the risk of the nation's number one killer, heart disease, the American Medical Association today adopted policy that supports legislation to ban ...  

AMA officials said both issues, which have been gathering steam in the states, affect the health of Americans.  

The Washington Post reports that California will become the first state to sign into law a measure banning trans fats.  

The Washington Post reports that the American Medical Association on Monday took a stand against two unhealthy habits: eating foods made with artificial trans fats and text-messaging while driving.  

It wasn't too long ago that trans fats were a little known or spoken of element of food.  

I'm going to start saving her rantings and publish them into a memoir called "The Paranoid Rantings of an Underground-House Dwelling Hebephrenic Schizonphrenic." Of course I will credit her and send all the royalties to her cave in the mountains of Montana.  

Friendly's is making sure their customer's dining experience is even friendlier - for health.  

Restaurant chain Friendly's just got friendlier as they use trans fat-free oils.  

Government moves to ban artery-clogging trans fats and text-messaging while driving have the support of the American Medical Association, the nation's largest physicians' group decided Monday at its semiannual ...  

Girl Guide cookies just keep evolving. First they went nut-free [PDF] in 2005 due to allergy concerns. Now, in an effort to appease a health-obsessed society, come spring 2009 the Girl Guides of Canada are unrolling 90 percent trans fat-reduced classic chocolate and vanilla cookies and...  

It's a little scary when the government steps in to ban restaurants from cooking with an ingredient still found in foods sold at the grocery store.