New York proposes trans fat ban in restaurants
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New York City's Health Department on   Tuesday proposed a near ban on the use of artificial trans fat   at restaurants, likening its health danger to that of lead   paint.
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New Yorkers are worried that when a citywide ban on artificial trans fats goes into effect on Sunday, French fries will lose their crunch.
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As evidence grows that trans fatty acids in partially hydrogenated oils are damaging to the heart, the food industry is looking for an alternative.
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The New York City Board of Health voted unanimously yesterday to require the city's roughly 20,000 restaurants to stop cooking with trans fats, making New York the first major U.S. city to adopt such a ban.
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A culinary counterrevolution may be in progress, as more restaurants in New York abandon small plates of light fare in favor of heaping platters of sinfully fatty meats.
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Arby's Restaurant Group announced Tuesday its eateries will no longer serve french fries with trans fat and cut the artery-clogging oil from its other foods.
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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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A state lawmaker wants to ban restaurants from serving food to obese customers Â but please, don't be offended. He says he never even expected his plan to become law.
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Restaurants will be urged to voluntarily phase out trans fats from kitchens over the next 18 months under a plan unveiled by city and county leaders Tuesday.
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McDonald's Corp. said on Monday more than 1,200 of its U.S. restaurants have switched to a trans-fat-free frying oil, though no timeline has been set for when the rest of its hamburger chain would be using the new product.
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New York City's Board of Health bans artery-clogging trans-fats from restaurants in the Big Apple.
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Restaurants, under fire from health advocates for too-big servings and not enough detail on nutrition, are fighting back.
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Restaurant company Dunkin' Brands Inc said on Monday that all its menu offerings in its Dunkin' Donuts restaurants will be free of artery clogging trans fat by October 15 this year.
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I&#8217;m not sure if this is a mixed metaphor, but Harvard and the mayor of New York have gone logrolling in the trans-fat cascade. The Harvard School of Public Health announced that it&#8217;s giving its highest honor, the Julius B. Richmond Award, to Mayor Michael Bloomberg for demonstrating &#8220;extraordinary leadership in protecting and promoting the [...].
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The New York City Board of Health voted unanimously Tuesday to require all city chain restaurants to post calorie data on their menus.
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Burger King said Friday it will use trans-fat-free cooking oil at all its U.S. restaurants by the end of next year, following in the footsteps of other leading fast-food restaurants.
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A judge struck down a New York City rule Tuesday that required fast-food restaurants to post calorie counts on their menus, but he suggested that expanding the rule to include more restaurants could make it legal.