Article: Restaurants: Trans fats on the way out

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 ...

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