|
ID |
Name |
Organization |
City |
State/Province |
Comment |
|
|
683 |
David Hagner |
|
Pickering |
ON |
It's about time. Thank you for caring. No wonder the healthcare costs are skyrocketing and people are dying. Thank you again. |
|
|
678 |
Sophia Sperdakos |
|
Toronto |
ON |
Our government should be taking all steps necessary to improve the health of Canadiana and where possible take the lead on such public health risks. Don't reduce. Eliminate trans-fatty acids. |
|
|
676 |
Lawrence Roy |
|
Toronto |
ON |
|
|
|
675 |
Dean Baker |
|
Gander |
NF |
|
|
|
672 |
Gurth Pretty |
|
Toronto |
ON |
|
|
|
671 |
Blair & Donna Phillips |
The Phillips Family |
|
|
The Toronto Star article should have been Front page news. Corporate bias? One has to wonder. |
|
|
669 |
caroline jacques |
|
Toronto |
ON |
What an excellent way to improve quality of life and greatly reduce demands on our health care! |
|
|
664 |
Megan Bell |
|
Sault Ste. Marie |
ON |
Transfats must be eliminated from our food supply. |
|
|
663 |
Varun Mathur |
|
Pickering |
ON |
Eliminate trans fats from Canadian food supply. Also, make it mandatory for manufacturers to clearly disclose the amout of trans fats tier food contain. |
|
|
658 |
David Gillard |
|
Windsor |
ON |
Its time for the canadian goverment to do what is good for its citizen,their health and just think of savings in health dollars.Quit giving into big business. |
|
|
656 |
Susan Bennington |
RNCP |
Langley, |
NT |
"A 1997 New England Journal of Medicine found that people who consumed one gram of trans a day for a decade had a 20 per cent increased risk of cardiovascular disease."
"Canadians ingest, on average, more than 10 grams of trans fats daily."
When you consider the above statement and the health costs of this country it seems only reasonable to ban trans fats. Foods suppliers are making money at the expense our health. Most of the public have very little knowledge of what goes into their food and believe if it is allowed to be on the food shelf it must be good to eat. Not only do we have to educate the public but we have to eliminate additives/alterations to foods that are killing them. |
|
|
651 |
Lynne Skromeda |
|
Winnipeg |
MB |
Let's ban 'em!!! |
|
|
648 |
Greg Gibbons |
|
Peterborough |
ON |
|
|
|
645 |
Frank Voisin |
|
Kitchener |
ON |
Way to go Pat! Lets get Canada to be a world leader in cutting Trans Fat! |
|
|
638 |
Sharon Smith |
|
Calgary |
AB |
As a cook in a long term care facility,I am concerned about the amount of trans fat being fed to our residents.As our food budget is tight we often use "convience foods" which are high in trans fat.Labeling will not help our elderly residents. |
|
|
634 |
Jody Severinsen |
|
Calgary |
AB |
I feel very strongly that trans fats should be taken off the market to protect the health of individuals. It would also benefit our Health Care System by decreasing health problems associated with the use of trans fat in our diets. |
|
|
633 |
Dorothy Aaron |
|
Toronto |
ON |
|
|
|
632 |
Anna Schram |
|
Dundalk |
ON |
I feel it's up to Government to take responsibility for the nation's health issues and at least make them knownto the public. |
|
|
631 |
kamlesh tukrel |
|
north york |
ON |
I am a nutritional consultant and a mother of 2 young children , I am shocked at the unhealthy foods specifically marketed and targeted for kids by all the big companies.What a shame ,the bottomline is more important than the health of people and then the the government spends big bucks to find out why obesity rate and cardiovascular disease (i.e cholestrol and high blood pressure )are rising in children .What an irony ! |
|
|
630 |
Joan MacLeod |
|
Baddeck |
NS |
It's about time that someone took a stand. |
|
|
629 |
Barbara Smith |
|
Victoria |
BC |
Good Work! |
|
|
627 |
Michael Lucas |
|
Calgary |
AB |
There are healthier alternatives to every use of trans fat, because products containing trans fat are man-made substitutes of more natural foods such as butter. Products containing trans fat should not be considered food. They have been shown to be so harmful that we would be more correct in calling them poison! |
|
|
626 |
Deborah D'Souza |
|
Breakeyville |
PQ |
|
|
|
625 |
darko prce |
NUTRITIONIST |
mississauga |
ON |
Trans Fatty Acids KIll All Living things for food company profits !
TRANS FATTY ACID molecule has the same chemical formula as a "normal" fatty acid molecule, except for the fact that its hydrogen atom is in a different spatial arrangement. Technically, it is still an "unsaturated fat." However, it behaves quite differently both in foods and in the body.
Essential fatty acids with a trans-configuration can no longer perform its critical function. These imposters can interfere with the formation of long chain omegas, increasing the body's need for them and are basically misfits. The change in structure means that only half of it can fit into enzyme or membrane structure, taking up space and blocking out natural forms, thereby preventing the function of the essential fatty acids (known as cis molecules).
Cis and trans molecules each may have only one double bond, but their melting points are quite different. Cis molecules melt at 13°C (55°F) and are liquid at room and body temperatures. Trans molecules melt at 44°C (111°F) and are solid at room and body temperatures. Another difference is that the cis molecules are "non-sticky," that is, able to disperse readily, while the trans molecules are "sticky," able to clump together making platelets more likely.
As far as metabolism is concerned, the body prefers to use trans fatty acids only as energy-creating fuels. Trans molecules change cell membrane permiability impairing the protective barrier, increasing the liklihood of such foreign substances as allergens gaining entry. Cis fatty acids are conserved for use in cell membrane structure and prostaglandin formation. The rate at which the body is able to break down the trans molecules is much slower than for the cis. This is important pertaining to the heart, whose normal fuel is fatty acids. High trans fatty acids lowers its ability to perform. Increased activity, stress, or crisis is often met with dire consequences.
Because of the changes in shape, trans molecules cannot take up sulfur-rich proteins, oxygen, and light vital to body reactions, thereby short-circuiting the messages to do so. This interference is the result of "almost" fitting but not quite, similar to what happens when a spark plug in a car has too wide a gap. The body's pattern flow is thrown off by molecules that have the wrong shape, size, and/or general properties that do not fit into structural arrangements of a particular design. Any molecule not normally part of the human biological/biochemical construction can do this whether it is a trans fatty acid molecule or any other synthetic or such foreign molecule as pesticides, chemicals, or drugs of any kind.
Diseases most certainly stem from altered molecular structure. For example, trans fatty acids can increase blood cholesterol levels by as much as 15% and blood fat levels by 47% very quickly, leading to atherosclerosis. When information is analyzed and compared to the increased incidences of cancer, it parallels the increase in consumption of hydrogenated fats. Research is showing that essential fatty acids inhibit cancer and that some cancers are actually a result of deficiencies of these acids.
Trans fatty acids disrupts the vital function of essential fatty acid designation of activity. They worsen the activity by interfering with enzyme systems that can transform fatty acids into unsaturated fatty acid derivatives found in concentrated forms in the brain, sense organs, adrenals, and testes. They also interfere with the production of prostaglandins that regulate muscle tone in the walls of the arteries, affecting blood pressure, kidney function, inflammation response, and immune system competences. Certainly, neither the brain nor the placenta are completely protected from the permiation of trans fatty acids. |
|
|
623 |
Kirsten Krastel |
|
Toronto |
ON |
|
|
 |
