Girl Scout Cookies Jump on Trans Fat Ban(d) Wagon
One of my favorite indulgences, Girl Scout cookies, those naughty little fattening cookies that the Girl Scouts of America sell every year, and that it seems you can eat a thousand of before being satisfied (I’m convinced they are made this way on purpose), is removing the trans fats from their cookies.
This comes in a move after many fast food companies have taken the trans fats out, which are artery clogging and heart unhealthy oils and fats which have received a lot of well deserved bad press as of late, in an effort to make healthier food for America.
My favorite cookie, the Samoa, the one with the caramel, coconut and chocolate on it, probably previously had a lot of transfats in them, since they were one of the tastier creations, and definitely tasted “naughty”.
Even kids cereals have these sort of unhealthy fats in them, and hopefully these will be on their way to being removed as well, because along with that “healthy fiber” content and vitamins and minerals, they are also serving up a lot of soybean oils and partially hydrogenated fats, which have the effect of increasing obesity and making us eat more in the end, because unlike healthy fats, they only fuel our appetite instead of help to curb it and make us stop eating when we naturally should, and are actually full.
