FDA to ban trans fats

[Tom]

People can continue to commit suicide by poor health choices if they want to. But I want them to have to work a little to achieve their self-destructiveness.

I'm being totally selfish here: Why should I, as a taxpayer and financially-responsible person, be forced to subsidize - in the form of higher health-care premiums and income taxes - the bad choices made by these people?

For the same reason we "subsidize" your choices. If you want to use that language.

If it's possible to actually establish a link between behavior and health, like smoking, then making smokers pay more is possible. And the ACA does so.

 

[zinfamous]

I'm all for this and in fact--


...DONUTS?? DONUTS?!?!!!

OMG NOT THE DONUTS!

 

[Throckmorton]

I'm all for this and in fact--


...DONUTS?? DONUTS?!?!!!

OMG NOT THE DONUTS!

Right because donuts can only be made with trans fat

 

[Wreckem]

What alternatives? You have oils, solid fats, and oils made into solid fats (trans fats). What else is there? I think the wide transition to trans fat was because it was cheaper and more reliable/consistent than natural fats, no?

Ask the makers of Crisco, they are coming out with new Crisco formula with ZERO trans fats. They actually had a trans fat free formula prior to 2004. It was discontinued because it was more expensive to make. It was made with sunflower oil.

 

[dank69]

Ask the makers of Crisco, they are coming out with new Crisco formula with ZERO trans fats. They actually had a trans fat free formula prior to 2004. It was discontinued because it was more expensive to make. It was made with sunflower oil.

A quick search shows that they are replacing the partially hydrogenated oils with fully hydrogenated oils and that fully hydrogenated oils are likely just as unhealthy as their partially hydrogenated counterparts...

Also, the "zero" trans fat formulas were taking advantage of the <0.5g/serving regulation.