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Yesterday the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene held a public hearing about banning trans fats in city restaurants. Overall, most people said it was a good thing, with health and diet experts noting the "historic nature of these hearings" and that 22% of heart-related deaths are due to trans fats consumption.
However, there was opposition - and not just from fast food restaurants. The Food Bank for New York City pointed out that banning trans fats limit what food they accept from donations (trans fats help stabilize foods for a longer shelf life). New York City Clash, which protested the smoking ban, told the Post, "The next thing they're going to ban is eggs Benedict. Eliminating choice through coercive behavior is not the American way." Others were concerned that some restaurants wouldn't be able to afford to switch or wouldn't be able to switch in time.
Right before the hearing, Kentucky Fried Chicken announced in a press conference that it would stop using trans fats in their cooking and would be switching to soybean oil. The Daily News asked five people how the new trans fat-free fried chicken tasted; most of the reaction was positive (less greasy and tastes pretty much the same) but one person noted it wasn't as moist. KFC is still working on finding trans fat free recipes for their other items - biscuits, gravies, etc.
The other topic discussed was the proposal for fat food restaurants to display the caloric values of various dishes. Naturally, the fast food restaurant chains complained, noting that they already offer caloric information and cited difficulties in accounting for "too many combinations of seasonings and ingredients," as the NY Times reported. But the Health Commissioner said that proposal was for median caloric values, which should be do-able.
You can read and comment upon on the trans fat ban proposal (PDF) as well as the calorie information-on-menus proposal (PDF). The Health Department also has information on trans fats and heart disease and calorie intake and obesity.
Photograph of KFC President Gregg Dedrick announce the trans fat-free fried chicken by Bebeto Matthews/AP
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it would be so much easier to just ban fat people
from the post story:
"City health officials say trans fats belong in the same category as food spoiled by poor refrigeration or rodent droppings."
thank goodness we can pursue public policy without hyperbole.
Leave transfats alone, let me get fat, let me get the strange kinda cancer, let me be happy with my food being tasty. At least NYC doesn't have those people that need to be trucked out of their homes when they die. Same with smoking, there is so many more things out there that are so much worse. Eh fuckem
I think this is really great. The city health department is taking on the issues that ***kill*** the most people and that could be the easiest to fix. The issue of transfat is a no briner-- I'd be thrilled to se the calorie counts displayed in fast food restaurants. Sure they have that information now, as mandated by the FDA, but every time I ask for it they are "all out" of the brochures. (Isn't that odd??)
This is going to save a lot of lives, and in a few years nobody will even remember the difference.
dhex, as long as we're spotlighting hyperbole, i refer you to your post in the previous thread on this subject.
You wrote "fat food restaurants." What a great Freudian slip!
It's psychological if one notices a difference between hydrogenated and regular oil.
In 2002, McDonald's announced it would eventually move to a trans-fat-free oil. Instantly, McDonald's was barraged with thousands of complaints from consumers, claiming the fries tasted worse.
There's only one problem with that claim: McDonald's didn't even change the oil yet; the people were complaining about the oil because they thought it was different, even though the oil was still the same.
Read here: Why McDonald's Hasn't Cut the Fat
This anomaly proves consumers taste what they want to taste. The human brain has a big influence on flavor. This is why most trans-fat flavor studies are misleading, because you don't know if the tester said something that might subconsciously influence the test results, such as, "Guess which one was fried in trans fat."
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