It's finals week. I'm grumpy. So when I read things like this, I react cynically:
The Board of Health voted Tuesday to make New York the first city in the nation to ban artificial trans fats at restaurants _ from the corner pizzeria to high-end bakeries.
The board, which passed the ban by a unanimous vote, did give restaurants a slight break by relaxing what had been considered a tight deadline for compliance. Restaurants will be barred from using most frying oils containing artificial trans fats by July 1, and will have to eliminate the artificial trans fats from all of its foods by July 1, 2008.
So now it's slightly more healthy to eat pizza and baked goods which means that now New Yorkers can eat more pizza and baked goods, get fatter and be less healthy for other--non-transfat--food related reasons.
