Get your trans fat on while you can

Go ahead and lick the Aqua Blue Pillsbury Funfetti Vanilla-Flavored Frosting from the jar while you still can.

While you are at it, cover a batch of Bisquick’s Cheese Garlic Biscuits in it and wash your creation down with a giant glass of melted Country Crock margarine.

Double down and get your trans fat on while you can.

Time is ticking for our trans fat-filled friends.

The FDA has ordered food manufacturers to stop using trans fat by June 18, 2018. Good call. Scientists say trans fats with partially hydrogenated oils are linked to artery-clogging bad cholesterol.

Susan Mayne, director of FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, says it will save thousands and thousands of lives.

Trans fats are said to increase the risk of heart disease, the leading cause of death in this nation, according to the CDC.

Still it is almost, nearly bittersweet-ish.

There is little natural about these menacing unsaturated fats, but they have oozed their way into our bodies like that glass of warm margarine.

Our world has been coated in trans fats since the 1950s.

I can’t remember a time when the trans fat level was not written on labels.

For a long time, trans fats were as American as apple pie.

In fact, Marie Callendar’s Lattice apple pie has 3 grams of fat per serving.

Trans fats went down fast when you consider how long they have been in our lives.

Remember the flack New York took when it started going after trans fats in restaurants and bakeries a decade ago.

Cleveland, Philly and the state of California are among those that followed suit, but some people thought the whole push was “Big Brother” being a controlling jerk and trying to make us live longer. Stupid Big Brother! It all caught fire and restaurant and food makers began to phase trans fats out voluntarily.

Most of those who didn’t get on the boat on their own will be pushed by the FDA decision.

Time will tell how this will affect products like Funfetti.

Maybe they will leave the shelves completely, but I am betting many of them won’t.

Some will probably just be re-imagined with another preservative most people neither understand or digest well.

I am hoping that won’t happen.

Wouldn’t it be nice for a generation of kids to understand everything on food labels?

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Trans fats are said to increase the risk of heart disease, the leading cause of death in this nation, according to the CDC.