Hasta La Vista, Trans Fat!

California’s Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a new law to terminate trans fats in restaurants come 2010 and for all baked goods sold from 2011.
 
He declared: “Consuming trans fat is linked to coronary heart disease, and today we are taking a strong step toward creating a healthier future for California.”
 
New York and Oregon did it too by now finally banning trans fat laced food even from sale in shops.
 
But Arnie is the first to pass a law!
Well done.
 
There is this guy from Austria who never belonged to any class system and was never groomed to be a politician.
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s achievements were admired but at the same time he polarised deeply and it still is cool to look down a bit on the ex-bodybuilder-then-Hollywood-star-now-Governor-of-California.
 
But the big boy often goes where so many more should go but don’t and he does it with a naturally born ease and determination.
He learned a lot how to do things in his actually nearly four careers and being married to The Kennedy Clan yet there is more to him and that is called talent!
 
The man has gravitas, cojones and I add Kudos as he does not only talk the talk about problems but walking the walk by solving them.
 
If you ask me Arnold Schwarzenegger is USA President material.
Back to trans fats -they are created when manufacturers mix vegetable oils with hydrogen.

This dirt cheap stuff reduces good cholesterol levels thereby pushing up bad cholesterol levels and so preparing the way for coronary heart disease.

It’s also linked to diabetes, cancer and of course obesity.

I need not dwell on what else is done to the body and the mind but let me point out that these fats like sugars and chemical additives etc. create, nay breed herds of customers for other industries and make people dependant, energyless and…docile.
People who consume such stuff are not likely to call a revolution.
They will be munching consumers until their arteries are clogged and their bodies ailing and costly problem zones.
 
Sadly trans fat & Co. allows cheap processed food the easiest route to market by feeding those who cannot afford much with potentially deadly concoctions.
 
High time to stop.
 
If not may as well offer those other purveyors of dangerous drugs governmental grants for making not at all too dissimilar stuff.

This article published by MIZPAH Magazine -  ©2010 www.mizpah.tv

© Helena Lind

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