THIS IS GREAT NEWS! But…of course, I can’t just leave it at that…
First, look over the article from the San Diego Union-Tribune.
photo by Mykl Roventine
“There’s no pleasing that Kitchen Kop Chick.”
As big an improvement as this is for the health of Californians, it would be even better if they were also requiring restaurants to switch back to frying in beef tallow like many used to – this is what McDonald’s used before switching to the cheaper trans-fat oils they use today. (Going back to beef tallow, a saturated fat, would be a miracle for sure and there’s no doubt that doctors all over America would come unglued.) Instead most eateries are switching to soy or canola oils – these are relatively NEW oils to civilization, unlike the traditional cooking oils people have used for centuries, before many of the diseases we deal with today went wild. (Heart Disease & Diabetes are two biggies.)
If all this sounds like a bunch of craziness to you, don’t take my word for it!
Read the links below for more detailed information and see what you think. It’s hard to swallow at first, I felt the same way after all that has been crammed into our brains for years about the dangers of saturated fats.
But just think…
- What have people been eating for thousands of years?
- What is more natural, or the way God made it?
Chew on those questions as you read more below…
(Many more topics & recipes along the right in the blue section!)
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mgirl 07.27.08 at 10:10 pm
While I agree that it’s best to eat healthy, I do not agree with legislation forcing private companies to cook a certain way. This goes along with the smoking/no smoking in public places issue. I personally hate the smell of cigarettes and am happy to have places like parks and zoos free of it. However, privately owned businesses should be free to choose whether to allow smokers or to cook in motor oil if that’s what they want. Then we, the customer, can decide for ourselves if we want to support them. Government intrudes into our lives WAY TOO MUCH!
As a side note, I’d like to try those french fries in beef fat again. McD’s used to have the BEST fries, didn’t they?
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Kelly the Kitchen Kop 07.28.08 at 4:37 am
You’ve made a very good point, and I agree that government butts into our lives too much. (The fact that we can buy cigarettes but not raw, healthy milk grinds me!)
But, unfortunately, for many people they don’t believe something to be true unless they hear it coming from somewhere in government, they see this as making it “official”. So I’m just hoping that with the trans fat issue becoming more mainstream, the last stragglers (some in my family!) will finally believe how detrimental it is to health!
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