Chicago Thinking About Banning Your French Fries

Well, not your french fries exactly, but rather trans fats which are present in a lot of fried and deep-fat-fried foods:

Edward M. Burke, who has served on the Chicago City Council since 1969, when cooking oil was just cooking oil, is pressing his colleagues to make it illegal for restaurants to use oils that contain trans fats, which have been tied to a string of health problems, including clogged arteries and heart attacks.

If approved, nutrition experts say, the ban will be the first in a major city, following the lead of towns like Tiburon, Calif., just north of San Francisco, where restaurant owners have voluntarily given up the oils.

Consider this statement: "...trans fats...have been tied to a strong of health problems, including clogged arteries and heart attacks."

If the idea that a food substance can cause clogged arteries or heart attacks is a good enough reason for these politicians to ban it I wonder where they'll stop the bans. Too many hot dogs can cause heart problems. Hamburgers too, not to mention eggs, sausage and other types of good food. So where does it end?

Why can't people just eat what they like and be responsible for weighing the food's impact to their health themselves?

What's amazing to me is that many in this country want to put our health care system in the hands of politicians like the ones described above. These people are already trying to dictate our diets to us. What do you think they'll do when they have "a healthier you will save the taxpayers money" as an excuse to tell you how to live your life?