AP reports:

New York City has taken a bold step in the fight against obesity and heart disease. Today the New York City Department of Health announced a proposal to limit all trans fats from New York restaurants. A public hearing is scheduled for Oct. 30.

It also announced that all restaurants that list nutritional information must include calories.

Trans fats are found in many types of cooking oils used in the preparation of doughnuts, french fries and pastries. The Food and Drug Administration has required that food labels list trans fats since Jan. 1, 2006. Trans fats include margarine, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, partially hydrogenated vegetable shortening and shortening.

New York had already instituted a voluntary limit on trans fats, but 30 to 60 percent of restaurants in the city refused to make the switch.

Note to New Yorkers: you’re still going to die. What you would do is prop up those manufacturers of “healthier” oils, who now have less incentive to make their products taste better. I would be examining the pockets of the NYC Department of Health for lobby money. It wouldn’t surprise me if a lot of input was taken from the citizens of Newark, NJ.

I can see the next Iron Chef America: “World-renowned chef Bobby Flay from New York (snorts and chortles)…”