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Article: Restaurants: Trans fats on the way out
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- Concord Monitor
- Article date:
- December 11, 2006
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New York City's health department is leading the charge to limit
artificial trans fats from consumers' diets. The city's board became
the first in the nation last week to ban the cholesterol-boosting
fats from restaurants. The ban has big implications for the
restaurant business in New York, and several other cities are
exploring the possibility of a trans fat ban.
But local restaurant owners say the move doesn't concern them -
many of them have already made the switch to healthier oils, and they
predict even the smallest restaurants in the state will soon follow.
It makes good economic sense, one dietician pointed out - restaurants
want to keep their customers alive.
Bud Konn, who owns the ...