Hallulujah, We All Gonna Live Forever!

Thanks to the Governator who has banned trans fats in California:

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has made it official: California will be the first trans-fat free state in the nation.

All-natural palm, rice and soybean oils will soon be king, and life in the Golden State will be forever altered.

The California legislature pushed the bill through last week, and Schwarzenegger signed it into law Friday, July 25.

The ban will require food providers to begin phasing out trans fat oils by July 1, 2009. Thereafter, noncompliance with the ban will result in fines of up to $1,000.

Trans unsaturated fatty acids are the partially hydrogenated oils that result from a chemical process producing solid fats with a longer shelf life.

These so-called "trans fats" were once thought to be healthier than butter, but research in the last decade has shown that they are much more harmful to health than had been believed. According to the American Heart Association, trans unsaturated fatty acids are medically proven to increase the risk of coronary heart disease by raising bad cholesterol (LDL) levels and reducing good cholesterol levels (HDL).

With more than half a million Americans dying each year from heart disease, the switch may be coming not a moment too soon.

We're all saved! Politically correct food is now required in California!

Remember when they told us that oat bran would cure all of our ills? It started showing up in any food that could hold it. That theory blew up and it was shown that it had pretty much no effect at all, and now nobody pushes oat bran in their advertising.

It wouldn't surprise me if someday it turns out that trans fats had a positive effect on health that nobody recognized and banning them began the slide into ill health and terrible diseases that were previously unknown. Such is often the way with political correctness.