MPs vote to &#39;eliminate&#39; trans fats
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Members of Parliament voted yesterday to ban artificial trans fats despite charges such action would be heavy-handed and &quot;assault the entire food industry&quot; by taking on such favourite foods as store-bought doughnuts and even home-baked goods.
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Those people who took the time to actually digest the fat new sheaf of dietary guidelines the federal government released this week had a few questions.
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By Geoff Meade; John Duckers  New laws on the testing of thousands of chemicals in daily use will be approved by Euro-MPs today - heralding the European Union's biggest-ever single piece of legislation.
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Trans fat will soon be gone from Big Apple restaurants. What's next?
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New York City's board of health on Tuesday voted to phase out most artificial trans fats from restaurants, forcing doughnut shops and fast-food stands to remove artery-clogging oils from their cooking.
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Starbucks plans to stop selling food containing trans fats in China within six months, a report says.
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A small study suggests that there is a way to counteract the negative health effects of a high-fat meal.
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No more trans fats with those french fries? No problem. The city's ballyhooed ban on trans fat cooking oils in all New York restaurants &#151; an idea that gave chefs indigestion when first proposed &#151; seems to be going surprisingly smoothly. Across the city, most fast food chains say they've already made the switch days before the July 1 deadline, which is Sunday.
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A proposal to ban most artery-clogging   trans fats from New York's restaurants could save thousands of   lives at little cost to restaurateurs, supporters of the   initiative said on Wednesday.
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Does the state have a place in the kitchens of the nation? Members of Parliament have voted to follow the lead of Denmark and make Canada the second country in the world to ban trans fatty acids, widely considered to be the nastiest form of fat.
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Does less fat equal less breast cancer? That&#39;s a question many Canadian women are asking as Dr. Norman Boyd&#39;s unique diet and breast cancer study goes into its final year.
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King-size candy bars that have helped fuel Britain&#39;s expanding appetite and waistline will be phased out by some food companies, in compliance with an official campaign against obesity.
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In a move affecting the cooking of more than 6 million pounds of french fries a year, Marriott International is eliminating frying oil containing trans fats from its more than 2,300 hotels throughout the United States and Canada.
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Three years after the city banned smoking in restaurants, health officials are talking about prohibiting something they say is almost as bad: artificial trans fatty acids.
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The Senate on Thursday night dropped an amendment to the farm bill that would have banned fatty foods and high-calorie beverages at school snack bars, stores and vending machines, dealing a blow to its chances of passage.
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By PAUL GEITNER    BRUSSELS, Belgium  -- Europeans eat less of the most dangerous, cholesterol-raising fats than Americans do and the amount is decreasing, according to a report released Wednesday by the European Food Safety Authority.    Scientists at the European Food Safety authority declined to say whether the EU should follow the United States' lead and require special labels on margarine, chips, cookies, fries and other potential sources of trans fatty acids...
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The Montgomery County Council unanimously approved a ban on partially hydrogenated oils in restaurants, supermarket bakeries and delis yesterday, becoming the first county in the nation to restrict artery-clogging trans fats.