Starbucks and A&W have nixed trans fats. How much does the presence of trans fats affect your decision when eating out?

If I am not so busy thinking about trans fats then I will eat out without thinking of the harm I am doing to myself and the consequences and I try to eat something healthy but still we never know until it is too late

There are no more A&W's locally, and I don't go to Starbucks, I don't drink coffee. I do however, like Starbucks chocolate covered coffee beans. A couple years ago my granddaughters bought me some of the coffee beans...felt I perhaps needed something to eat on the way home on a 2 hr drive. I didn't know what I was doing...whew! I ate almost a full bag of those coffee beans, and I was wired for 3 or 4 days. I told my husband I had eaten the coffee beans, he told me I had the equivalent of several pots of coffee...and I'm not used to coffee. I'll never do that again.

I avoid canola/rapeseed oil. That's all I really am concerned about. I don't eat out that often.
By the way, does anyone know if cotton oil is really okay to eat. I mean, we don't eat cotton, do we? No, I thought not.

Could not care less. If I had the money to eat out, I certainly would not eat at A&W or Starbucks ANYway. When I used to be able to eat out, I ate what I wanted to -- usually it was mostly healthy anyway. When one pays a lot for upscale restaurants, one tends to go off their diet sometimes -- it's a treat and not something that happens everyday, at least not with me, ever -- so I don't pay a lot of attention to exactly how much fat, calories, etc. I'm eating right then. That's for home and grocery shopping.

Although it isn't something that I would choose to eat and I'm glad that action is being taken to remove them from foods, it isn't something that I'm ever going to spend any time worrying about.

I've been a pretty loyal Starbacks customer for nearly 20 years, but I haven't eaten their food for more than 10 years. I primarily buy coffee beans from them. About 3 lbs a month.

I very rarely eat fast food. A&W is pretty low on the list. I've maybe eaten there five times in the past 25 years.

My biggest source is probably the Chinese bakery across the street. Love those sesame balls!

> ...chocolate covered coffee beans.
> ...I didn't know what I was doing...whew! I ate
> almost a full bag of those coffee beans, and I
> was wired for 3 or 4 days...

I did that once, years ago. Pretty powerful stuff, eh?

Back then, I did used to drink an awful lot of coffee. I probably drank coffee as well. These days I limit myself to 3 cups a day. Doctor's orders.

It doesn't affect my decision as much as it should. But I now use trans-fat-free butter and peanut butter.

If I'm eating a fast food place then I might as well go and eat what is bad for me. I'm not heading to McD's for a salad. I don't at fast food places anymore, I don't drink coffee, I don't eat meat. But I don't ever stop to think about trans fats. I just know what I should and shouldn't eat.

What's a trans-fat?

It don't affect me at all. Couldn't care less.

I like it when a package says that, it's a factor.

bad!

Trans fats are just a part of the larger problem of saturated fat - where there's trans fat, there's usually much more saturated fat, and I usually try to avoid that, so it's not that much of an issue because it's already dealt with.

Why do you avoid Canola oil?

I've never been able to tolerate coffee, I would get a stomach ache. I could count on one hand how many cups of coffee I've drank. I've always drank tea of sorts, did not bother me. But, have since been told, tea has as much caffeine as coffee. My daughter used to drink "tanks" of coffee, and was instructed not to drink as much by her doctor, and she knew before hand, the coffee was affecting her health. According to the Blood Type book, Type O people should not drink coffee, while Type A, coffee is beneficial. My daughter is Type O.

Yes, the chocolate covered coffee beans are powerful, and unfortunately delicious. I haven't touched them since that one episode...

It doesn't agree with me. Through eliminating certain foods, I found out what was causing me such gastric distress. After I felt better, I tried canola and felt icky that quick.
I've seen the research, heard all the pros and cons, I just know how it makes me feel.
I DON'T LIKE ANYTHING MESSING WITH MY GALL BLADDER
That's kinda of a gall bladder joke *snort*

First thing I thought of when they were talking about this on the news was why? Why is this suddenly such a concern they are making it illegal? What about the corn syrup? What about the propylene glycol ? That crap is still in our foods, I'm sure it's in AW.

I'm partial to a bit of lard

Could not care less. It's just a marketing gimmick; they still have all kinds of other fats. I fudging love how so many potato chip packages are now emblazoned with the information that they have no trans fats--as though that suddenly makes them good for you!

The answer is "Could care less" and not as written.

Maybe it's messing with your canola bladder!

And the carinogenic preservatives, too... yeah...

Ok, then.

Blood types? That's very Asian. Not even remotely scientific. Not much different than astrology.

http://skepdic.com/bloodtypediet.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_blood_type_t...

Is that pancreatic humor?

Smoke and mirrors, take out the easiest that has the least impact on consumption and trade value to make it look like the people in control really care about our health. It's all bullsit. can I say that

There go Bill's ads!!

> The answer is "Could care less" and not as written.

Saying " I could care less" means you could care less. I did want to say "could not care less" meaning, could not care less.

ooops

I haven't really ever checked for trans fat.

It's how we eat at home that I count. I don't go out to eat often enough to make it a factor.

I don't frequent Starbucks and there isn't an A&W around here. I don't check for trans fats when I go out anyway.

What kind of problems do you have with canola? I have problems tolerating it myself and you're the first person I've come across that said they have a problem with it.

A&W??

Nothing bothers me as long as I eat it in moderation.

Sorry, I do not know what trans fats are/is

Than you haven't talked to enough people. The body does not digest it properly. People who do not have a problem with it now, may be looking at having a gall bladder removed in about 7 or so years. And some may not.

I don't care. I guess I won't care either once I turn seventy with Alzheimer's, or whatever they've linked trans fats with now.
And what does 'nixed' mean?

> And what does 'nixed' mean?

tr.v. nixed, nix·ing, nix·es
To forbid, refuse, or veto: Congress nixed the tax hike.

[German dialectal, from Middle High German nihtes, genitive of niht, from Old High German niwiht : ni, not, no; see ne in Indo-European roots + wiht, thing; see wekti- in Indo-European roots.]

Trans fatty acids (commonly termed trans fats) are a type of unsaturated fat (and may be monounsaturated or polyunsaturated).

Trans fats occur naturally, in small quantities, in meat and dairy products from ruminants. Most trans fats consumed today, however, are industrially created as a side effect of partial hydrogenation of plant oils — a process developed in the early 1900s and first commercialized as Crisco in 1911. Partial hydrogenation changes a fat's molecular structure (raising its melting point and reducing rancidity) but this process also results in a proportion of the changed fat becoming trans fat.

Unlike other fats, trans fats are neither required nor beneficial for health. Eating trans fat increases the risk of coronary heart disease. For these reasons, health authorities worldwide recommend that consumption of trans fat be reduced to trace amounts. Trans fats from partially hydrogenated oils are generally considered to be more of a health risk than those occurring naturally.

Trans fats are increasingly being linked to chronic health conditions, are tightly regulated in a few countries, are mandatory on product labels in many others, and are the central issue in several ongoing lawsuits (particularly against fast food outlets). Many companies are voluntarily removing trans fats from their products, or establishing trans-free product lines.

Chemically, trans fats are made of the same building blocks as non-trans fats, but have a different shape. In trans fat molecules, the double bonds between carbon atoms (characteristic of all unsaturated fats) are in the trans rather than the cis configuration, resulting in a straighter, rather than a kinked shape. As a result, trans fats are less fluid and have a higher melting point than the corresponding cis fats.

That's strange because the only complaint I've heard from others is that they don't care for the taste or that they feel the oil is too heavy. It causes digestive/intestinal problem, usually within a half hour of ingesting it in any form for me.

I didn't think it had a 'taste'.

I didn't think it did either, but a couple of my friends said it did.

Ooh... some of that's pretty scary.

Wow, Ok thanks

It doesn't cross my mind

i dont care

It doesn't.

I don't eat out all that often - when I do, I really don' care how unhealthy the food is, as long as it tastes good. If I ate out more often, I would definitely think about it more.

Starbucks and A & W aren't things that come to mind when I'm 'eating out'. *snicker*

Thanks.

Thanks for the info!