NYC Bans Trans Fats From Eateries

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dbermanmd @ Dec 8 2006, 08:08 AM) [snapback]359234[/snapback]</div>

Free market?
What about the AMA (which is basically a cartel),
Limiting the supply of MDs ,by controlling the number of med school entrances .

 

Burden of Coronary Heart Disease in the US attributable to Trans fats, from NEJM 3/2006. "Thus, given the 1.2 million annual myocardial infarctions and deaths from
CHD in the United States,82 near-elimination of
industrially produced trans fats might avert between
72,000 (6 percent) and 228,000 (19 percent)
CHD events each year.
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(jared2 @ Dec 6 2006, 11:57 AM) [snapback]358428[/snapback]</div>

You are free to disagree about the legitamacy of regulating fats. Funny the regulaters pick on things like this, though. In fact, regulators regulate fat because they can't regulate the important things (parents that screw up their kids for instance). Decades ago they "prooved" coffee was a carcinogen, but failed to factor out all the smokers who enjoy coffee. Simalarly, trans fat studies fail to account for how much disguised sugar folks eat (starch carbs / corn bread pasta potatoes, etc ... you know, the holy grail of what we dare not look at) and how much (or little, I should say) exercize folks get. Tests that proove fat is bad are easy to come by ... because fat LOOKS ugly. But a lemon tort? A pan of fresh corn bread? A steamy baked potatoe? A bowel of pasta? MMMMmmmmm ... that CAN'T be bad :^)

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hill @ Dec 12 2006, 03:52 PM) [snapback]361214[/snapback]</div>

Hey there, don't bad-mouth baked potatos! The so-called Irish potato (actually a new-world crop) is the closest thing to a complete food there is. And as for pasta, well, all I can say is, if you want access to the beer volcano in heaven you'd better eat your pasta and like it! (But if you're into healthy foods, whole-wheat spaghetti is fine.)