While Health Canada continues to ignore its own task force's recommendations to ban trans-fats, New York is off an running.
A recent report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine revealed that since their regulation in 2006 98% of restaurants are trans-fat free and that it has been a "cost neutral" shift.
What's more interesting is that preliminary studies suggest that while indeed the shift from trans-fats have increased the use of saturated fats, it also increased the use of unsaturated fats, the healthy fats, leading to an overall improvement in the fat profile of trans-fat substituted foods.
What this means of course is that not only is there the benefit of removing a dietary toxin from the food supply, there's the added benefit of increasing the food supply's provision of healthy fats.
It's been 51 days since the two year free pass Tony Clement gave the food industry to shape up ended - and still our government does nothing.
Pathetic.
Angell SY, Silver LD, Goldstein GP, Johnson CM, Deitcher DR, Frieden TR, Bassett MT. (2009). Cholesterol control beyond the clinic: New York City's trans fat restriction. Annals of Internal Medicine, 151 (2), 129-134 PMID: 19620165
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Are you some kind of food Nazi? Just because something is unhealthy doesn't give the government the right to tell people what they can do with their own bodies. Try and take the populace's caffeine away and they will justifiably slit your throat.
ReplyDeleteWhy is it that so many people who comment on blogs have the intelligence of fleas?
ReplyDeleteNot all unsaturated fats are healthy. More and more information is coming to light about how polyunsaturated fats (like those in vegetable oils) are toxic to the body.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.naturalnews.com/026471_fats_health_fatty_acids.html
Monounsaturated fats, like those found in olive oil, are a much better choice.
Also, saturated fats are not as unhealthy as one might think. Coconut oil is one example of a healthy saturated fat.
Susan :)