Reply #7: It's more important when you remember not being able to breathe [View All]

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He might try concentrating on something a tad more important.

I'm not usually much for nanny-state regulation, but it's damned hard to avoid trans fats if you eat any processed foods at all -- and most of my adult life I've been too busy to avoid fast food or restaurant food or quickie microwave food.

Which may be the reason I had a 95% blockage of my right coronary artery that resulted in a heart attack at age 32.

As I read the article -- especially the bit about the study showing that as little as one gram of trans fats a day increases coronary risk by 20% -- I couldn't help but wonder if, had I been born in Canada after passage of this law, I might not have come so close to dying -- to literally breathing my last -- at age 32.

So I guess I'd call this one important.