The Food We Eat...
I've been mesemerised by the Guardian's Saturday Food supplement for the past couple of weeks. It's a mesmeresing combination of semi-victim-laden how dangerous most foods really are, and heart-wrenching stories of how people in Kenya get paid like 20p an hour or something to tie our baby vegetables with a chive. Yes, a chive, really.
Same time, I've been reading more about low GI diets as a way to improve your health and stave off the inevitable Western disease of late-onset diabetes.
And now this: Stephen Joseph in California is suing Kraft Foods because he didn't know their baked goods - specifically, Oreo Cookies - have trans fats. Trans fats, which are also called partially hydrogenated fats, are bad for you. Apparently, most fats that are solid at room temperature are bad for you. He's even got his own website: BanTransFats. Here's a man who takes his cause seriously: you can even get a t-shirt: "DON'T PARTIALLY HYDROGENATE ME"™
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