Would you like a heart attack with that?

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Would you like a heart attack with that?
U.S. fast-foods have more harmful trans fats than some in Europe

By LINDA A. JOHNSON, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The great virtue -- or perhaps the great drawback -- of McDonald's and KFC is that the food is pretty much the same all over the world. But a new study suggests the fries and the chicken served in the United States may have more artery-clogging trans fats.

The chief reason, the researchers say in today's New England Journal of Medicine, is the type of frying oil used: partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, which is high in trans fats.

At a New York City McDonald's, a large fries-and-chicken-nuggets combo was found to contain 10.2 grams of the trans fat, compared with 0.33 grams in Denmark and about 3 grams in Spain, Russia and the Czech Republic.

Harvard School of Public Health cardiologist Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian and colleagues wrote in the journal that while it may be hard for restaurants and food manufacturers to eliminate partially hydrogenated oil, other countries have replaced it with unsaturated fats without raising costs or reducing quality.

The article continues at http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/266507_fattyfries13.html

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1. Typical American stance

Profit margins are more important than any other consideration. :eyes:

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2. Most Europeans use lard.

The fries taste so much better over there. How much transfats are in lard? I remember when butter was a killer, until we found out that margarine was the real killer. :shrug: