# TFAs are also commonly found in margarine, nondairy creamers, peanut butter, vegetable oil shortenings, frosting mixes, butter-like spreads, dessert toppings, gravy mixes, instant soups, dips for chips, roasted or fried nuts, pretzels, peanut butter crackers and like snacks, and those egg substitutes whose consumption you thought might be healthy for your heart.
"Most stick margarines are full of TFAs, and some of the tubs have them as well. Snacks like Quaker Cereal Bars...Lunchables, and Oreos have them. Granola bars....take-out salads, apple pies, and stir-fries" have them. And, get this, "They are in the sugar-free candy made expressly for diabetics," as well as nondairy coffee creamer and Halloween treats! Shaw goes on to write, "Even some name brand ice creams, like Ben & Jerry's, have them." "Orville Redenbacher 'quality' popcorn uses them" as do most other microwave brands.
If you can think of a reason why TFAs should not be banned altogether from the grocery shelves, let me know. For as Dr. Oscar London, author of "Kill as Few Patients as Possible,"warns on Shaw's cover blurb: "Trans fats are a time bomb ticking in every one of us. For your sake, and that of your children, you must read this book."
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(Sherwood Ross is an American who writes for newspapers and magazines. Reach him at sherwoodr1@yahoo.com)
"Most stick margarines are full of TFAs, and some of the tubs have them as well. Snacks like Quaker Cereal Bars...Lunchables, and Oreos have them. Granola bars....take-out salads, apple pies, and stir-fries" have them. And, get this, "They are in the sugar-free candy made expressly for diabetics," as well as nondairy coffee creamer and Halloween treats! Shaw goes on to write, "Even some name brand ice creams, like Ben & Jerry's, have them." "Orville Redenbacher 'quality' popcorn uses them" as do most other microwave brands.
If you can think of a reason why TFAs should not be banned altogether from the grocery shelves, let me know. For as Dr. Oscar London, author of "Kill as Few Patients as Possible,"warns on Shaw's cover blurb: "Trans fats are a time bomb ticking in every one of us. For your sake, and that of your children, you must read this book."
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(Sherwood Ross is an American who writes for newspapers and magazines. Reach him at sherwoodr1@yahoo.com)
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