I guess if you go with that, you should also tell the government to stop adding vitamins and nutrients to our bread, cereal, crackers, milk, etc, etc... They regulate that because of the vitamin deficiencies that our nation used to have, which we don't anymore overall. It could be argued that they're saving people from dying of heart attacks by banning trans-fats (which are largely due to processing foods in a certain way).

I've become health concious only recently, and while I don't think it's really the government's job to make America Trans-Fat free, I think that they could spend more money on educating the average american on how to eat healthier/help pay for gym memberships, etc. I'm willing to bet that if more Americans knew what Trans-Fat was, they might try to avoid it more often.