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Doughnut shops next front in trans-fat war (@ cnn.com)

This excerpt pretty much sums up my reaction to the trans-fat movement:

Consumers should not assume, however, that a trans-fat-free doughnut is necessarily healthy, said Marion Nestle, a nutrition professor at New York University.

“My feeling is that the whole trans fat issue is a calorie distraction,” Nestle said. “You think that because it’s trans-fat-free, it doesn’t have any calories. And whatever the substitute is going to be, it’s going to have just as many calories.”

As I discovered yesterday, what the food industry is using to replace trans-fats may very well be as bad, or worse, for our bodies.  Much better to just start cutting those foods out of my diet altogether, either by not eating them anymore or finding organic/natural alternatives.

So, doughnuts are easy to cut - I don’t like them anyway.  But if I were to cut out all foods that contained unpronouncable stuff in the ingredients list, I would have to start growing and raising all my own foods.  The best I can do is start paying attention to the stuff and start getting more educated about what those alien-looking ingredients actually are.  My guess - at least 7/10’s of them are corn-derived.

Corn?  More about that later.

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