Baltimore's law against trans fats claimed a victim recently. A restaurant was busted (for a second time) for selling trans fats, a dangerous, drug-like an illegal substance.
The city health department says a business called Healthy Choice John's Barbecue, located inside Lexington Market, violated the ban on trans fats.[1]
If that isn't irony for you, eh?
But then again, you know, who decides what is healthy? Plenty of things are healthy in small doses. Trans fats, in any dose more than that allowed by law, likely aren't healthy, but if that's the most unhealthy thing about a food, I'm not sure I see the problem.
Sure, we've eliminated the horrid, murderous substance known as trans fats from McDonalds french fries, but do you know what we haven't eliminated yet? McDonalds french fries.
Last I checked, they're still sold in Baltimore, they're still filled with other types of fat, and they're still drenched indelicious heart-disease causing sodium.
Sometimes, I think the "experts" focus on the wrong things. They find one little niche thing to obsess over - in this case trans fats - and ignore the big picture.
1. WJZ.com story
The city health department says a business called Healthy Choice John's Barbecue, located inside Lexington Market, violated the ban on trans fats.[1]
If that isn't irony for you, eh?
But then again, you know, who decides what is healthy? Plenty of things are healthy in small doses. Trans fats, in any dose more than that allowed by law, likely aren't healthy, but if that's the most unhealthy thing about a food, I'm not sure I see the problem.
Sure, we've eliminated the horrid, murderous substance known as trans fats from McDonalds french fries, but do you know what we haven't eliminated yet? McDonalds french fries.
Last I checked, they're still sold in Baltimore, they're still filled with other types of fat, and they're still drenched in
Sometimes, I think the "experts" focus on the wrong things. They find one little niche thing to obsess over - in this case trans fats - and ignore the big picture.
1. WJZ.com story
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