Anyone else watch The Biggest Loser?

Please excuse that this post is a little "dated", I wrote it this morning and couldn't post it due to the site maintenance.] I think that the number of posters here who appear to believe that the problem with trans fats is that they make you obese is a good illustration of the problem. The real problem with trans fats is that they affect blood cholesteral levels resulting in coronary heart disease. You can be fit and trim and have clogged up arteries. It is important to note that New York has banned high levels of trans fats in restaurant food, they haven't legislated what you can eat at home or the levels of trans fats in packaged foods that already have labels listing the levels of trans fats. A possible alternative to the ban on trans fats in unlabeled restaurant food might be to require restaurants to prominantly label the food in ways that can't easily be overlooked by consumers, e.g. "This menu item contains 12.5 times the recommended daily limit of trans fats. Excessive consumption of trans fats kill an estimated 30,000-100,000 Americans each year". I suspect that most restaurants would simply remove the trans fats instead of putting such a label in their menu. I think the biggest loser is the person whose dietary decisions are made for him by his own government. This is the basis of our difference of opinion, I think the biggest losers are the people who die unnecessarily and the children, spouses and friends they leave behind.

Please excuse that this post is a little "dated", I wrote it this morning and couldn't post it due to the site maintenance.] I think that the number of posters here who appear to believe that the problem with trans fats is that they make you obese is a good illustration of the problem. The real problem with trans fats is that they affect blood cholesteral levels resulting in coronary heart disease. You can be fit and trim and have clogged up arteries. It is important to note that New York has banned high levels of trans fats in restaurant food, they haven't legislated what you can eat at home or the levels of trans fats in packaged foods that already have labels listing the levels of trans fats. A possible alternative to the ban on trans fats in unlabeled restaurant food might be to require restaurants to prominantly label the food in ways that can't easily be overlooked by consumers, e.g. "This menu item contains 12.5 times the recommended daily limit of trans fats. Excessive consumption of trans fats kill an estimated 30,000-100,000 Americans each year". I suspect that most restaurants would simply remove the trans fats instead of putting such a label in their menu. I think the biggest loser is the person whose dietary decisions are made for him by his own government. This is the basis of our difference of opinion, I think the biggest losers are the people who die unnecessarily and the children, spouses and friends they leave behind.