Anyone else watch The Biggest Loser?

I also had some of my memory facts wrong about the Prevention article. forgive me since I was going off the article which I read several weeks ago. I have it in front of me now. "Your Waistline's Worst Enemy" A calorie's a calorie, right? Now so fast. Wake Forest Univ School of Medicine researchers found that trans fats releases more calries than other fats during digestion. Their test monkeys which metabolize fats like humans, gained three times more weight on and 8% trans fat diet than others fed the same number of calories but no trans fat. Although the average woman gets 3.9 g of trans fats per day from patrially hydrgenated oils, we found one stick of margarine with 3.5 g in a single tablespoon. Go trans-free by checking labels for the phrase partially hydrogenated oils..." Prevention, December, 2006, page 57. Alison

the sale of cigs is banned to minors, if those guidelines were followed for TF's, that would seem like a reasonable compromise and help bring the libertarians and lefties together. can't we all just get along. at my next party, i will be sure to have a bowl of pork rinds next to the lance crackers. the minors only choice will be dry cheerios.from the left,db Hey. Watch out there. Lack of foundation. Can't you be a libertarian on certain issues and a leftie? I've been a Democrat my whole life, raised by a family of democrats. Besides, I read that most of the alleged libertarians were not actually ingesting TFs, just getting on the case of folks who couldn't resist them. And are we not supposed to refrain from discussing political nuances unrelated to swimming, like the seepage of certain things into public schools? From the left, Vesper. P.S. I love to swim. I'm going to swim any minute now before my kids get home from the public schools.

Yeah, people are going to kill themselves anyway, but you can at least go after the low hanging fruit, and trans fats are one of those.

BTW - no trans fat in Crisco, just checked the label The regular, blue labeled Crisco has trans fat. They now sell a "zero trans fat" version that comes in a green can.

The regular, blue labeled Crisco has trans fat. They now sell a "zero trans fat" version that comes in a green can. My blue label version has 0g. Maybe they do this in NC realizing we still smoke too much. Anyway, it's interesting that the market is adapting to this trend and doing it without government legislation. Typically, things work better without the gov't getting involved. This would be a prime example, along with the public waking up to the luncacy of that Atkins diet.

My blue label version has 0g. Maybe they do this in NC realizing we still smoke too much. Anyway, it's interesting that the market is adapting to this trend and doing it without government legislation. Typically, things work better without the gov't getting involved. This would be a prime example, along with the public waking up to the luncacy of that Atkins diet. Yeah, fellow liberals! Fortress, I think we are long lost twins seperated at birth by a few years ... I too am a dem, raised by dems ... AMEN to the Atkins diet being crap, too ... is AMEN too religious?

Yeah, fellow liberals! Fortress, I think we are long lost twins seperated at birth by a few years ... I too am a dem, raised by dems ... AMEN to the Atkins diet being crap, too ... is AMEN too religious? More than a few years... Uh, at 45, I could almost be your mom if I didn't strongly approve of birth control and other small items guaranteed by the right to privacy. But I'm not past the "breeding age" yet. :rofl: So maybe you can be my baby sister separated by half the country. As long as you're not in a public school, you can say AMEN. I hate diets. The Atkins diet will likely cause CHD. No one's going to disagree with Geek on that issue. Who diets anyway? (You don't need to if you're looking like Natalie.) And aren't we posters all eating reasonably nutritionally? If not, aren't we going to be eating our hats? Although I betcha some of us are :drink: and taking those NSAIs ... Then there are those folks smoking in NC ... except Gull.

My blue label version has 0g. Maybe they do this in NC realizing we still smoke too much. Must be. They figure they gotta give you people a fightin' chance.

And are we not supposed to refrain from discussing political nuances unrelated to swimming, like the seepage of certain things into public schools? From the left, Vesper. QUOTE] I was hoping to get this thread locked out.....I quit Mr Lefty DB: Nice try. It might work. Someone who swims 67 x 50 fly is a quitter?!?! Why quit, when we're having such fun? From the left, Masai Warrior.

By the way, you can always tell a Harvard man, you just can't tell him much. Yes, I have found that to be true in my own life. :rofl: