Trans-fat ban in Calgary restaurants

[Fire]

Originally Posted by the_only_turek_fan

^ I just have a problem with the Calgary Health Region deciding what I can and can't eat.

The way I see it is that people are educated enough, and should know they should control the amount of fat they intake.

I would 100% agree with you if we had private health care system and everybody paid for their own healthcare. Unfortunately we have a public system and healthy people that take care of themselves have to pay for the healthcare of people who don't take care of their health. If we are stuck with a public system then the governement should be doing more to keep people healthy and thus saving money.

[maverickeastwood]

Are we replacing the word "fat" with "calories"? Lets think about this. Just because your gonna eat foods with transfats in them doesn't mean your gonna swell up and die of a heart attack. The health problems won't go away unless there are lifestyle changes. I'll get flack for this, but if you sit, for extended periods, on the job and at home...your not active. Your not active, your not burning calories and thus storing fat. Just more control hungry government legislation.

[Phaneuf3]

Originally Posted by Fire

I would 100% agree with you if we had private health care system and everybody paid for their own healthcare. Unfortunately we have a public system and healthy people that take care of themselves have to pay for the healthcare of people who don't take care of their health. If we are stuck with a public system then the governement should be doing more to keep people healthy and thus saving money.

to extend your point... i'd agree with not having the ban if we had private health care AND the nutritional information was readily available. in a restaurant setting its pretty impossible to make an informed decision. some one brought up people are smart enough to make their own choices... i'm smart enough to know what's good and bad for me but i don't know exactly how something is prepared in a restaurant therefore i can't know exactly how bad something will be for me.

[CarlW]

I'm all for it as long as they are banning all ARTIFICIAL transfats (ones created through partial hydrogenation) as that stuff is not natural and is worse for you then naturally occuring transfats.

[tvp2003]

Damn. Does that mean no more KFC?!?

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by tvp2003

Damn. Does that mean no more KFC?!?

KFC the shed Trans-Fats

By early 2007, all 786 KFC restaurants in Canada will have converted to canola, the company says.

Wendy's announced they were going trans-fat free last Aug.

And just today Burger King announces they are replacing trans-fats:

By early 2007, all 786 KFC restaurants in Canada will have converted to canola, the company says.

[pepper24]

Originally Posted by the_only_turek_fan

^ I just have a problem with the Calgary Health Region deciding what I can and can't eat.

The way I see it is that people are educated enough, and should know they should control the amount of fat they intake.

Unfortunately, not everyone is smart enough to think on their own which just cuts into health care costs. If the fries at McDonald's taste the same then what's the issue?