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Article: New York targets trans fats in restaurants
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- August 15, 2005
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NEW YORK - No one would ever mistake a place teeming with
steakhouses and French restaurants - not to mention street vendors
hawking beef-laden hot dogs and margarine-covered bagels - as being
particularly health-conscious.
But if the city's health department has its way, New York will
become the first American metropolis whose restaurants do away with
trans fat, a chemically engineered ingredient in cooking oils that
acts like cement in the human heart.
Trans fats are created when unsaturated vegetable oils undergo a
chemical process known as hydrogenation. That gives the oils a solid
form that is essential to holding together a cookie or achieving the
golden crisp of French fries.
Trans ...