Factual issues about trans fats. They are not required for good health. They increase risk of coronary disease. Foods can be made to taste just as good without them. Should they be banned? I tend to think the government has too much input already in how we live our lives. In the end, the government will always do what is best for it, not the people. They have proven that time and time again.

Big business runs the world. Why haven't cigarettes or alcohol been banned? Aspirin kills more people in a week than Ephedra based health supplements ever did, yet those were banned.

Listen, if a person wants to sit at home and indulge in whatever their poison of choice is, than go for it. I love to eat as much as the next person but I try to choose foods that are the least harmful to my body (most of the time). My only feeling is, if you are going to destroy your body, don't :cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r: about it later. I will have no sympathy for you. If you smoke and get cancer, I'm sorry but you were well aware of the risks. If you want to gorge yourself on junk food and get so fat that you are literally attached to your couch (http://www.wftv.com/news/3643877/detail.html). If you want to shoot junk into your veins, I won't be a pallbearer at your funeral. There is only so much that the government, family, friends or your priest can do. In the end, we make our own decisions and have to live with them.

Sure, that went a bit off topic, but I am a little off the deep end to begin with!