{"id":40,"date":"2008-01-03T22:06:05","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T03:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/2008\/01\/03\/trans-formation\/"},"modified":"2008-01-03T22:07:49","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T03:07:49","slug":"trans-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/2008\/01\/03\/trans-formation\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans-formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Montgomery County, Maryland&#8211;one of the suburban jurisdictions bordering DC&#8211;a ban on trans fats in restaurants took effect this week, at the start of the new year.\u00a0The most rational explanation I&#8217;ve read of what trans fats are, and why they should be avoided, is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookingforengineers.com\/article\/40\/Saturated-Fats-Cholesterol-and-Heart-Disease\">Michael Chu&#8217;s writeup<\/a>, mostly about fats and heart disease, on his site\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookingforengineers.com\">Cooking for Engineers<\/a>. The quote that stands out most&#8211;and I wish he had a citation for this; he has citations for many other points the article makes&#8211;is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: none; padding: 0px\" class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">In addition, trans fats have been found to replace necessary saturated fats in fat cells resulting in an unusable substance taking the place where a fuel and nutrient source should have been. This leads to the body increasing capacity of fat cells in order to maintain fuel and nutrient storage levels.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Post\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/12\/29\/AR2007122901675.html\">has an article<\/a>\u00a0that details the preparations Montgomery County restaurants\u00a0\u00a0have taken to prepare. I hadn&#8217;t given much thought to the ban itself, but what struck me reading the article is how pervasive industrial pre-prepared foods are in restaurants. Apparently, pancakes and pretty much any baked good comes from a trans-fat laden mix. And the Tastee Diner&#8217;s cheesecake was from Sara Lee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When buying food for home, I read labels and generally try to avoid processed foods, but in restaurants I generally gloss over all that. Partly, of course, because it&#8217;s really difficult to figure out what goes into restaurant food. I suppose I make a big mistake if I assume restaurants approach food in the same way that I do at home. I suppose it&#8217;s naive to have thought that restaurant corned beef hash could have come from anywhere but a can, but still, I find it a bit disheartening to learn that the cheesecake came from some factory far away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Montgomery County, Maryland&#8211;one of the suburban jurisdictions bordering DC&#8211;a ban on trans fats in restaurants took effect this week, at the start of the new year.\u00a0The most rational explanation I&#8217;ve read of what trans fats are, and why they should be avoided, is\u00a0Michael Chu&#8217;s writeup, mostly about fats and heart disease, on his site\u00a0Cooking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}