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Trans Fat Ban

POLL: NYC Soda Ban Gets Support From Big Names, But Are You Convinced?

Posted 07.23.2012 | New York

Just a day away from Tuesday's public hearing on the proposal to end the sale of large, sugary drinks in New York City, Mayor Bloomberg is seeking to ...

Is New York's Trans Fat Ban Working?

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 07.17.2012 | New York

WASHINGTON -- Turns out it's possible to make a fast-food lunch a bit healthier even without skipping the fries. New York City now has hard evidence ...

School Trans Fat Ban Passes In Colo. Senate

Posted 04.11.2012 | Denver

The leanest state in the nation is taking big strides to retain that unique distinction -- the Colorado Senate passed a bill that would ban trans fats...

Nation's Leanest State Considers Trans-Fat Ban In Schools

AP | By KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 08.29.2012 | Denver

By KRISTEN WYATT, Associated Press DENVER -- The nation's leanest state is taking aim at junk food in school cafeterias as it considers the nation'...

Trans Fat: Hiding In Plain Sight

Michael F. Jacobson | Posted 03.12.2012 | Healthy Living
Michael F. Jacobson

The Center for Science in the Public Interest has asked the Food and Drug Administration to get rid of partially hydrogenated oil altogether. In the meantime, avoid products like these.

Betty Crocker, It's Time to Hang up Your Spoon and Apologize to America!

Margaret Cochran, Ph.D. | Posted 11.22.2011 | Home
Margaret Cochran, Ph.D.

You were always an icon of American cookery, a fail-safe, someone who had my culinary back. And now, well now, it's over!

'Doughnut Caucus' Blocks Ban On Trans Fats

Posted 07.27.2011 | Chicago

Lawmakers in the Illinois State Senate rejected a proposal to ban trans fats in many foods almost as emphatically as their colleagues in the House had...

State House Passes Landmark Ban On Unhealthy Fats

Posted 06.13.2011 | Chicago

Illinois could become only the second state in the country to ban an unhealthy type of fats, if a bill passed by the State House becomes law. Trans...

Let's Banish Nudges and Bans

Alan Miller | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Alan Miller

Nudges and Bans have become all the rage today. We were told recently how in New York, there is a drive to prevent people who are on food stamps fro...

Our big problem

Alan Miller | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Alan Miller

In this weekend's Wall Street Journal Theodore Dalrymple (the pen name for Anthony Daniels, a retired prison doctor and psychiatrist) was only the lat...

Has the Ban on Trans Fats Made Foods Healthier?

Joanna Dolgoff, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Joanna Dolgoff, M.D.

It may seem obvious that banning trans fats would make foods healthier, but initially, I did not think it would be so.

Report: Trans Fat Limits Lead To Healthier Foods

AP | ALICIA CHANG | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

LOS ANGELES — Holy fish sticks! Scientists finally have some good news about fat in our foods. Contrary to fears, most food manufacturers and r...

Street Vendors for the Tea Party?

Sean Basinski | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Sean Basinski

New York street vendors are almost all immigrants. They don't carry guns. But one thing is for sure. Like members of the Tea Party, they mostly just want the government to leave them alone.

California Restaurants Can't Use Trans Fat As Of January 1

Sacramento Bee | Jim Sanders | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles

California will bar restaurants from cooking with trans fat beginning New Year's Day, becoming the first state to crack down on the substance tied to ...

Bans, Bans, Bans... How Demonising Adults Has Become Popular

Alan Miller | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Alan Miller

It has become increasingly the case that the sentiment is one that people generally are irresponsible and in need of supervision from bureaucratic politicians. This is extremely dangerous.

California Ushers In New Laws Limiting Trans Fats, The Paparazzi And More

latimes.com | Patrick McGreevy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles

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Mayor Bloomberg's Health Rules Don't Apply To Him

New York Times | MICHAEL BARBARO | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

He dumps salt on almost everything, even saltine crackers. He devours burnt bacon and peanut butter sandwiches. He has a weakness for hot dogs, cheese...

Taxing and Banning: The Only Clear Strategies Our Leaders Seem to Have

Alan Miller | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Alan Miller

In these troubled times it seems the one thing that we can be sure of is that bureaucrats and politicians are keen to go after the small pleasures of life and hit us where it hurts.

My Trip to Google's HQ

Janet Carlson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Janet Carlson

The vending machine at the Google Headquarters charges more for foods containing unhealthy ingredients. How California is that?

Virgil Goode: Dripping with Contempt and Hatred

Mike Stark | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Mike Stark

So a doctor is concerned that so many of our poor smoke. He develops a plan to reduce the smoking rate of welfare recipients. He shares such plan with his Congressman, Virgil Goode (R, VA-5).

Trans Fat: Public Enemy #1

Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Joel Schwartzberg

Trans fats lurk in cookies, crackers, pizza dough, fried foods, donuts... hell, let's just say if it tastes great and you feel guilty eating it, it could have trans fat written all over it (in grease pen, natch).

California Becomes First State To Ban Trans Fats

AP | STEVE LAWRENCE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California on Friday became the first state to ban trans fats from restaurant food, following several cities and major fast...