NYC Decreases Restaurant Transfats
Unsafe partially hydrogenated vegetable oils get the boot in the Big
New York City - the Board of Health decides to nearly eliminate transfats in restaurant food. Great move!
NYC is a progressive city, and I did like that when I lived there. In a brilliant move, the City Board of health decided to embargo transfats in restaurant food.
The Washingtonpost.com reports, within six months all New York City eateries will be required to switch to healthier cooking oils, and to reduce total transfatty grams to newly set limits by 18 months.
This is a real boon for travelers, who are forced to eat out most of the time. In my own home, my wife and I have banned all transfats - AKA partially hydrogenated vegetable oils - those deadly free-radical inducing toxic chemicals so prevalent in food products.
When you're traveling, though, you are pretty much at the mercy of whatever bulk fat bins the restaurant taps in its kitchen.
So rejoice if your business trips take you to NYC, soon-to-be land of low bad fats. The rest of your trip might be expensive, but your health won't get any worse.
