As I lay on the couch yesterday listening to This American Life podcast and eating Nutella with a spoon I thought, thank goodness I'm not still in my pjs at 2.47 pm or this could really be pathetic.
I also was wondering if my little study break treat and those tasty little digestives were filling my body with transfats. So, as always, I turned to Google. It turns out that McVities, the makers of digestives, in a response to public outcry has removed transfats from their biscuit dough. Less than a week after the release of a study confirming the evils of trans fats in August of last year Sainsbury's, maker of tasty aforementioned Indian dinner for two, as well as Tesco, another major supermarket chain, pledged to remove all trans fats from all of their products by the beginning of this month.
Why haven't our markets jumped on this bandwagon? More importantly, why haven't our citizens taken up this battle cry? Trans fats have been proven to be evil and yet most processed products, which means most products in the US, contain them. Good for you, Michael Bloomberg, for stepping up.
The internet is not so consistent about Nutella. Some sites say that it is amazingly trans fat full. One page cites a study of 50 processed foods whose authors listed Nutella as in the top ten. But seek and ye shall find...A story published just a few weeks ago in the the Columbia Spectator indicates that Nutella passes the NY ban on trans fats. Is Mr. Bloomberg's ban incredibly weak? Either way I should probably put down my spoon.
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