Marriott Eliminates Trans Fats, Is Largest Hotelier to Join Ban
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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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New York City's Board of Health bans artery-clogging trans-fats from restaurants in the Big Apple.
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The movement to ban artery-clogging trans fats from food has a new venue: cooking schools.
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The global obesity epidemic is out of control, with more than 300 million overweight adults worldwide, specialists told the first international obesity conference in Sun City, South Africa, which ended yesterday.
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NEW YORK  &#151; Leave the gun, remake the cannolis? Days after city health officials proposed outlawing trans fats in eateries, Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the ban and tried to drag Robert De Niro into the debate because the actor's restaurants do not use the harmful man-made oil.
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Burger King Corp.  said it has begun  rolling out a trans fat-free cooking oil to its restaurants in  the United States.
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BOSTON -- Dunkin' Donuts, the food-on-the-go chain whose name celebrates a treat that's symbolic of unhealthy eating, is trying to refresh its image by largely eliminating trans fat across its menu.
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NEW YORK  - Many snack foods and spreads on the market are now free of artery-clogging trans fat, but consumers still need to be savvy label-readers, according to researchers.
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No more trans fats with those french fries? No problem.
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NEW YORK  - A one-year follow-up study of patients with heart disease found that few are meeting recommendations for fruit, vegetable and fiber intake, and they were eating a "disturbing" amount of trans fat, Dr. Yunsheng Ma and colleagues from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester found.
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CHICAGO, Jan. 29  â McDonaldâs has selected a new trans-fat-free oil for cooking its famous French fries, the fast-food chain said Monday.
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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.
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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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For much of the country, it's Girl Scout cookie time again. And this year, all those cookies, not just the Thin Mints and a few others, will come nearly free of harmful trans fats.
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McDonald's agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle two lawsuits accusing it of misleading consumers about the levels of trans fat in its food.
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Burger King Corp. said on Wednesday it has begun testing cooking oils free of trans-fats in its restaurants, with an eye toward a national roll-out by late 2008.
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Burger King Corp., the No. 2 hamburger chain, said on Friday that all of its U.S. restaurants would be using frying oil that is free of artery-clogging trans fats by the end of 2008.