No matter how you slice it – or should I say use it: fat is fat. One tablespoon
of oil, whether it be good oil or bad oil, still has a hundred calories – with all
of those calories being fat calories.
0 trans fat is misleading: the other half insists that since it has no trans fats in a product,
then there is no fat whatsoever.
If you eat it, and it has fat: it’s still gonna make you fat. No matter it be good fat or bad fat.
KFC phasing out most trans fats
NEW YORK (AP) — KFC said Monday it is phasing out trans fats in cooking its Original Recipe and Extra Crispy fried chicken, Potato Wedges and other menu items, but hasn’t found a good alternative yet for its biscuits.
Health experts say trans fats raise levels of artery-clogging cholesterol and contribute to heart disease.
The restaurant chain said it will start using zero trans fat soybean oil systemwide in the United States with the rollout expected to be completed by April 2007. KFC said many of its approximately 5,500 restaurants already have switched.
KFC President Gregg Dedrick said there would be no change in the taste of the chicken and other food items.
“There is no compromise,” he said at a Manhattan news conference. “Nothing is more important to us than the quality of our food and preserving the terrific taste of our product.”
Crispy Strips, Wings, Boneless Wings, Buffalo and Crispy Snacker Sandwiches, Popcorn Chicken and Twisters also are part of the menu change.
But Dedrick said some products including biscuits will still be made with trans fat while KFC keeps looking for alternatives.
The announcement came just ahead of a New York City Board of Health public hearing on a plan to make New York the first U.S. city to ban restaurants from serving food containing artificial trans fats.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/diet.fitness/10/30/trans.fat.ap/index.html