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Halt! Put the donut down, sir! Put it down!

Three years after the city banned smoking in restaurants, health officials are talking about prohibiting something they say is almost as bad: artificial trans fatty acids.

The city health department unveiled a proposal Tuesday that would bar cooks at any of the city’s 24,600 food service establishments from using ingredients that contain the artery-clogging substance, commonly listed on food labels as partially hydrogenated oil.

Once again we see the principles this country was founded on being thrown out the window on the pretext of “protecting” us. It’s exactly that kind of government “protection” that the Constitution aimed to shield us from.

. . .Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden acknowledged that the ban would be a challenge for restaurants, but he said trans fats can easily be replaced with substitute oils that taste the same or better and are far less unhealthy.

“It is a dangerous and unnecessary ingredient,” Frieden said. “No one will miss it when it’s gone.”

Nannyism is a dangerous and unnecessary ingredient. Hmm, that gives me an idea…