News -01-02-07 Starbucks, Along with New York City, Bans Trans Fats (MSNBC News) "Standalone Starbucks stores in Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Portland, Ore. will have zero trans fats in their food as of Wednesday, Borrman said." "Getting the other half of U.S. stores to follow suit will take some time, as the company adjusts recipes with regional bakers and food suppliers." "In December, New York became the first American city to ban artificial trans fats in restaurants and eateries. With some exceptions, restaurants will be barred from using spreads and frying oils containing artificial trans fats by July 1." 01-07 -01-29-07 McDonald's to Go "Trans-Fat Free" (USA Today) "McDonald's (MCD) has finally selected a new trans-fat-free oil for cooking its famous french fries after years of testing, the fast-food chain said Monday." 01-07 -06-14-06 KFC Sued for Fattening Foods (ABC News) "The fast food chain KFC is being sued for the fat content in its fried chicken, which Center for Science in the Public Interest says contains "staggering amounts" of trans fat." "One three-piece Extra Crispy combo meal has 15 grams of trans fat, which is more trans fat than a person should have in one week, says the CSPI." 06-06 -10-30-06 KFC to Reduce Use of Trans Fats (MSNBC News) "KFC said Monday it is phasing out trans fats in cooking its Original Recipe and Extra Crispy fried chicken, Potato Wedges and other menu items, but hasn’t found a good alternative yet for its biscuits." 10-06 Fries Vary in their Tans Fat Content (USA Today) "Americans are being served artery-clogging trans fats by food providers who should know better, a national consumer group says." 02-06 Papers Cooking Without Teflon or Much Oil (New York Times) "DuPont, the manufacturer of Teflon, says that its pans are safe and that their surfaces won't decompose, possibly releasing the gas, until the pan's temperature reaches 680 degrees. Some scientists say that an empty pan left on a burner set on high reaches 700 degrees in as little as three minutes." The author rejected the "non-stick" pans and looked for alternatives. "The most important characteristic was how close the pans came to having the nonstick qualities people love about Teflon. Can they sauté and brown, even without oil? Almost as important, how easy are they to clean?" "After all the tests, there was one pan I fell for: Le Creuset. It is easy to clean, and because of its enamel finish, acidic foods can be cooked without changes to color or taste. The cast iron pans were a very close second." 9-05 Fast Foods Fat - McDonald's Reduces Harmfulness of Fries (Chicago Tribune - Sachdev) "The Oak Brook fast-food giant said today it will switch to a new cooking oil that is healthier for its customers’ diets. It claimed the oil will halve the trans fatty acids in its french fries while increasing the amount of the more beneficial polyunsaturated fat." "Reducing the trans fatty acids, however, won’t lower the calorie counts. A package of small fries still has 210 calories and 10.2 grams of fat." 9-02 Trans Fats Trans Fats, Finding (BanTransFats.com) "Consumers can know if a food contains trans fat by looking at the ingredient list on the food label. If the ingredient list includes the words 'shortening,' 'partially hydrogenated vegetable oil' or 'hydrogenated vegetable oil,' the food contains trans fat. Because ingredients are listed in descending order of predominance, smaller amounts are present when the ingredient is close to the end of the list." 9-05 Trans Fats, Labeling (BanTransFats.com) "In July 2003, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") announced that it will require mandatory trans fat labeling effective January 2006." "But watch out! Under FDA regulations, "if the serving contains less than 0.5 gram [of trans fat], the content, when declared, shall be expressed as zero." Suppose a product contains 0.4 grams per serving and you eat four servings (which is not uncommon). You have just consumed 1.6 grams of trans fat, despite the fact that the package claims that the product contains zero grams of trans fat per serving." 9-05 Trans Fats, Partially Hydrogenated Oils (BanTransFats.com) "Partial hydrogenation is an industrial process used to make a perfectly good oil, such as soybean oil, into a perfectly bad oil. The process is used to make an oil more solid, provide longer shelf-life in baked products, provide longer fry-life for cooking oils, and provide a certain kind of texture or 'mouthfeel.' The big problem is that partially hydrogenated oil is laden with lethal trans fat." 9-05 Worst Trans Fat Foods (MSNBC Health News) "According to a report published in April by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and Wageningen University, eliminating trans fats from the U.S. food supply could prevent between 6 percent and 19 percent of heart attacks and related deaths each year." "Saturated fats raise the bad cholesterol, or LDL, and the good, HDL, but trans fats perform the double whammy of raising bad and lowering good cholesterol. Bad cholesterol causes plaque to build up in and eventually clog arteries." 01-07

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