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The latest U.S. health safety distraction ploy: Blame China!

8/3/2007 - U.S. health and safety officials have found yet another brilliant way to distract the public from realizing just how dangerous U.S.-made food and drug products are: Blame China! Lately, we've seen China blamed for everything from toxic toothpaste, deadly...

"Trans fat free" Girl Scout cookies still contain hydrogenated oils, trans fatty acids

3/24/2007 - For those who love their Thin Mints, note this: while cookies sold by the Girl Scouts have been reformulated to reduce the amount of trans fats, the cookies still contain the health-impacting fat, although levels are below the threshold that requires...

Michigan may be next to move away from trans fats

2/13/2007 - (NewTarget) Michigan may be the next in a growing line of states and cities considering a ban on trans fat. State Rep. Lee Gonzales, D-Flint Township, introduced four bills last week that could impact the health and diets of Michiganders. The first...

L.A. enacts voluntary trans fat ban

2/1/2007 - (NaturalNews) Following New York’s ban on the use of trans fats in restaurants last month, many cities across the country are considering similar plans to eliminate the artery-clogging ingredient. Los Angeles may be the first major metropolitan area to...

After 7-year delay, McDonald's introduces trans-fat-free oil

1/31/2007 - (NaturalNews) Fast-food giant McDonald's has finally begun to use trans-fat-free oil for cooking french fries in some restaurants, after seven years of testing different oil varieties. According to spokesperson Walt Riker, the new oil has been introduced...

Maryland legislator seeks to ban trans fat

1/25/2007 - (NaturalNews) Following in the footsteps of New York City, a Maryland delegate has proposed legislation to ban trans fats in the Old Line State. The legislation comes from Democrat James W. Hubbard, whose recent bill in Maryland’s House of Delegates...

Study: Alternatives to trans-fats may not be so healthy

1/25/2007 - (NaturalNews) Trans-fats, which form when food is prepared using hydrogenated oils, have recently been banned in restaurants in New York and California. Boston, and Chicago, are considering adopting the ban, but according to a recent report, the alternatives...

Los Angeles County considering banning trans fats in restaurants

1/16/2007 - (NaturalNews) The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted earlier this week to study the feasibility of banning trans fats in county restaurants, much like New York City, which banned the unhealthy fats from restaurant foods in December last year. The...

Starbucks to cut trans fats from baked goods in half of U.S. stores

1/4/2007 - (NaturalNews) Coffee retailer Starbucks Corp. recently announced that it would remove trans fats from baked goods in half of its U.S. stores by Jan. 3, and plans to eventually cut the unhealthy fats from foods in all its stores. According to Starbucks...

California lawmaker proposes NYC-like trans fat ban

1/2/2007 - (NaturalNews) California Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia, R-Cathedral City, proposed a bill today that seeks to ban trans fats in baked and fried foods in restaurants and school cafeterias throughout the state. Though the proposed bill is not as comprehensive...

Massachusetts bill seeks trans fats ban

1/1/2007 - (NaturalNews) Just shortly after New York City banned all restaurants from using trans fats in their food preparation, a lawmaker introduced a bill on Tuesday that would make Massachusetts the first entire state to ban artificial trans fats from restaurants. New...

Australian city debates trans fat ban after NYC takes action

12/26/2006 - (NaturalNews) The council of Waverly, Australia is considering a campaign to phase out deadly trans fats from hundreds of restaurants across an area that includes the Bondi and Bronte restaurant strips, after a similar ban was passed in NYC. Former Waverley...

New York becomes first U.S. city to ban trans fats

12/5/2006 - (NaturalNews) A unanimous vote from the New York City Board of Health has made the Big Apple the first U.S. city to ban harmful trans fats from its restaurants. First proposed on Sept. 26, the ban on using trans fats in restaurant cooking stirred up...

American Heart Association opposes New York trans fats ban

11/16/2006 - (NaturalNews) The American Heart Association (AHA) recently came out in opposition of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed ban on trans fats in the city's restaurants, claiming the ban may force eateries to revert to oils high in unhealthy saturated...

McDonald's to reduce trans fat content of food in European chains by 2008

11/8/2006 - (NaturalNews) On Tuesday, McDonald's announced it would be cutting the level of trans fats in its cooking oil to 2 percent by 2008 in its European restaurants, and claimed it was the first fast food chain on the continent to do so. After the move,...

KFC joins Wendy's in switching to trans-fat-free cooking oil

10/30/2006 - (NaturalNews) KFC, a unit of Yum Brands Inc., announced today that it plans to switch all its U.S. fried chicken restaurants to trans-fat-free cooking oils by April 2007. KFC, which recently came under fire for the high trans fat content of its fried...

Health author: Australia moves to protect public from trans fats; U.S. government does nothing

10/24/2006 - (NaturalNews) The Australian government has established the National Collaboration on Trans Fats in order to reduce the presence of the harmful food ingredient, and one American health author is applauding Australia for protecting its citizens from the...

New Yorkers: Join Us Mon., Oct. 30 To Kick Trans Fats Out of New York Restaurants

10/23/2006 - Unless you've been hiding out in a cave lately, you've probably heard about the horrific dangers of trans fats -- partially hydrogenated vegetable oils found in processed cookies, cakes, crackers, breads, doughnuts, and deep-fried French fries, etc.--...

NYC to hold public hearing on trans fat ban; health consumers rally at TransFatFreeNYC.org

10/18/2006 - (NaturalNews) The New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has caused a stir among both health proponents and food producers with its proposed ban of trans fats in city restaurants, while food producers say that the relatively small amount of...

Trans fat restriction in Denmark offers success story for similar initiative in New York City

10/17/2006 - (NaturalNews) Two years ago, authorities in Denmark made it illegal to produce food with more than 2 percent trans fats, imposing hefty fines and even prison terms against violators, and consumers have said that foods are not poorer for it. This notion...

Food industry to fight trans fat ban with lawsuits

10/2/2006 - (NaturalNews) When New York City proposed its ban Tuesday against restaurants using harmful trans fats -- an ingredient shown to cause health issues from high cholesterol to cancer -- a legal hornets' nest over the safety of America's food supply may...

Trans fatty acids are public health hazard, says author of "Poison in the Food"

10/2/2006 - (NaturalNews) While some critics are denouncing New York City's proposal to almost completely ban dangerous trans fat from its restaurants, Natural health advocate Mike Adams, author of "Poison In the Food: Hydrogenated Oils," is publicly stating his...

NYC considering ban of all trans fats in restaurants

9/27/2006 - (NaturalNews) New York City health officials recently unveiled a proposal that would ban artificial trans fatty acids from the city's 24,600 restaurants, just three years after prohibiting smoking in eateries. Most trans fats are found in shortenings,...

WHO may recommend global ban on partially hydrogenated oils in foods

9/21/2006 - (NaturalNews) In the event that warning labels about the health dangers of hydrogenated oils do not cause significant reductions in its usage, the World Health Organization has proposed that world governments should gradually terminate the availability...

The health dangers of trans fats have been known for decades, yet food companies still poison customers with hydrogenated oils

6/6/2006 - With new trans fat labeling laws now going into effect, which require food manufacturers to list the trans fat content right on the nutrition facts label, it's time to be brutally honest about the continued use of trans fat and hydrogenated oils in the...

The Honest Food Guide empowers consumers with independent information about foods and health

5/25/2006 - Mike: Hello everyone, this is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger. I'm here with Ben Kage, and we're going to have a discussion and Q&A session about the Honest Food Guide. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, it is available for free downloading...

Positive health trends accelerated by consumer education and champions of health freedom

2/15/2006 - I have a lot of optimism in 2006 in terms of health trends. I think things are actually starting to turn around out there, especially with public awareness about the dangers of prescription drugs and the dangers of specific food ingredients such as hydrogenated...

Vitamin warning! Some nutritional supplements use hydrogenated oils as filler

10/13/2005 - The next time you buy soft-gel vitamins, you'd better take a look at what's inside them. Would you be surprised if I told you that vitamin companies are taking one of the most toxic food ingredients known to mankind and putting it in soft gels as a filler?...

Dangers of hydrogenated oils revealed in new downloadable report (press release)

7/27/2005 - How shocked would be you be to learn that the U.S. population is being slowly poisoned by a single ingredient deliberately added to the human food supply? At first, it sounds like nonsense. But then you realize, after learning more, that the World...

The mass poisoning of humanity: an exploration of human stupidity

6/13/2005 - As human beings, we're the only species stupid enough to actually poison ourselves. As part of modern living, we create a wide variety of chemical toxins that go into the ecosystem through rivers and streams, the air, the soil and so on. Not only that,...

The accelerating decline of health in America: how an entire population lost its marbles

5/29/2005 - Welcome to the degenerate USA! As you interact with people everyday in society, have you noticed that more and more of them are in a state of mental and physical degeneration? I used to volunteer at a nursing home; I brought water to residents, told...

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