American food is about to get a lot healthier

[Professor]

[eynon81]

[dontworrybehappy]

I don't even know how many people realize that the grams of "fat" you see on the label for food is not the fat that fills out your ass cheeks, it's the fat that clogs your arteries. Fat that makes your ass big is not fat at all, it's calories taken in as food that isn't used by your body. Your body converts it to fat, but it's not fat going in. So you can technically get fat like that woman in the picture and eat nothing but fat free foods. You can get fat eating salad, if you eat enough of it. If the fat that fills your ass cheeks was grams of fat on the label, then soda wouldn't be being attacked by Mr Wonderful in New York City. A 64oz big gulp has 0 grams of fat in it. But it's got about 1800 calories. That's what makes for a nice round wal-mart booty.

Transfat seems to be some bad shit, no doubt. But banning it.......really? I guess we won't be seeing milk much longer since milk has the trans fat vaccenic acid in it. For that matter, so does beef. No more hamburgers or steaks for you!

[Indy]

QED.

[dontworrybehappy]

The same FDA that tells us to drink three glasses of milk per day in one breath tells us its full of detrimental trans fat in the next.

[The dane]

[dontworrybehappy]

[eynon81]

actually the "ban" seems not to be against trans-fats per se but rather partially hydrogenated oils.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/healt ... ealth&_r=0

[The Comrade]

from the op

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a ruling on Thursday that takes the first step in banning trans fats.

[dontworrybehappy]

Ok, but that doesn't solve the problem when the most common drink and most common meat in the grocery store still contain trans fats which are just as harmful. If we're gonna ban, let's ban.