[speedgibson] Speed Gibson: Dr. Rybak, Dr. Fine, Dr. Coleman

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Posted by Speed Gibson:
Dr. Rybak, Dr. Fine, Dr. Coleman
http://speedgibson.powerblogs.com/posts/1232300720.shtml


   It seems that when budget cuts loom, when they can't have any walking
   around money for a while, our esteemed leaders find some "freebie"
   issues to occupy their time. The latest: [1]taking up the war on
   trans-fats.
   Never mind that government regulation and over-reaction to saturated
   fats helped spur the use of trans-fats instead, it has now become
   Reich Minister Rybak's and Commissar Coleman's duty to once again
   protect us from ourselves. Once again, we can't be trusted. We will
   bake or buy cookies with trans-fats and give them to our children,
   shortening their life-span by ... by how much Dr. Rybak? Dr. Coleman?
   Wouldn't that depend on how many cookies, how often? After all, many
   natural organic foods have some amount of trans-fat in them. You can't
   eliminate them all.
   Which is worse, one sinfully decadent Mrs. Fields milk chocolate chip
   cookie a month or a dozen reduced-fat Oreos a week? The latter of
   course - enough to add 6 pounds a year, ingesting twice the saturated
   fat along the way. But if the food police has their way, it is
   responsible eater who will suffer when they outlaw Mrs. Fields
   cookies.

References

   1. http://www.startribune.com/local/37773254.html