Trans fats to be phased out in USA, Amiga edited Film about Trans Fats Update

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News from the Washington Post

Why is this type of news on Amiga.org? DFX the owner of Amiga.org has an unreleased underground kult film exposing the dangers of Trans Fats. Trans Fat is a Killer in your food. Amiga's were used in the production of the unavailable film.

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"The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday took steps toward eliminating trans fats in food products, all but ensuring that the artery-clogging ingredient gradually will vanish from the U.S. food supply.

A common ingredient in processed foods such as frozen pizzas, frostings, microwave popcorn and coffee creamers, trans fats have increasingly disappeared from grocery stores and restaurant menus in recent years amid widespread agreement about the risks they pose to public health.

New York and other cities have imposed bans on the substance, and in 2006 the FDA began requiring food manufacturers to print details about trans fats on nutritional labels. Those efforts appear to have put a significant dent in the consumption of trans fats. According to the FDA, intake among Americans declined from 4.6 grams per day in 2003 to about one gram per day last year.

But Thursday’s announcement was a move toward eliminating their use altogether."

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Read more

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trans-fats-to-be-phased-out-fda-says/2013/11/07/80cfc8be-47c4-11e3-a196-3544a03c2351_story.html

http://www.pinterest.com/cspinutrition/trans-fat-wall-of-shame/

http://www.oilchangemovie.com

For more information on what happened to Oil Change the movie please read the DiscreetFX interview in Amiga Future #101.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FWwAJomAks

http://www.amigafuture.de/kb.php?mode=article&k=4341

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That's it.  I'm done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1_fDwX1VVY

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Don't know what that is, and don't care.  The fact that my account is still active and your response was to post a video and not delete my account, or even bother to contact me, shows me in finality the level of respect you have for your users.

You were contacted already, also you know accounts don't get deleted on Amiga.org because it would mess up the datebase of the site and it make unrealiable for all members. The forum software we use does not react well to deleting accounts and screwing up posts that were made by that member and the included threads the posts are in. If it's not already clear in the terms of service I will update them to explain that accounts don't get deleted on Amiga.org to protect the health and stability of the site. I strive to keep Amiga.org 99% Amiga/AROS/MorphOS & Amiga Virtual Machine related. Occasionally you may see other tech news that is also of interest to most of our members. Feel free to avoid those news items or if your convictions against this are so strong maybe Amiga.org is not the site for you.

You can remove yourself from Amiga.org easy, remove your e-mail address from your account then reset your password to something random that you don't know. If you like I can do this for you or give you a permanent ban. The choice is yours. In this case the ban would be because you requested it and not a infraction against you. Thus you could request your account be reinstated at anytime in the future. We enjoy you being a member of Amiga.org and maybe we can agree to disagree on some things so you can stick around and continue to post on the site. It's really up to you.

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As my major was in Pre-Veterinary Animal Science (don't ask, its silly complicated) and I've had a lot of courses covering food science, I will say that the moderator's point about the dangers of long chain polymerized fats is no an exaggeration.

But then again, and before I get moderated out of here for awhile, what the HECK is this stuff doing here?

The electric car posts were off base enough, but this has no real place in the forum.

It's here because we used Amiga's to help make a unreleased film about the dangers of Trans Fats and get bugged all the time about when it's coming out. We may release some of the footage from the film at some point in the future.

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@fishy_fiz

I always thought the Amiga users never minded a little MS bashing after the sofies killed Commodore but maybe I'm wrong about that? I'm willing to listen and not post the occasional thread in alternative operating systems about the downfalls of MS if it really bothers people. It's hard for me to fathom why some are so offended by off topic threads they don't have to click on that are still tech related. Based on server logs Amiga.org has grown a lot since 2009 so your opinion while welcome is not accurate. A few posters are always quick to criticize the site but are unwilling to help make it better.

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@Oldsmobile_Mike

Feel free to PM me any suggestions or improvements you have for the site. I do listen to all reasonable and good feedback. Now please everyone back on topic. No more OT posts in this trans fat thread.

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5 foods that face changes with trans-fat ban.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/11/08/5-foods-that-face-changes-with-trans-fat-ban/

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@nicholas

The utopia you talk about with Wayne running the show ended in 2009. Wayne no longer had any interest in the Amiga and would have probably shut the site down if it had not been saved by DFX Partners. I do the best I can to run the site in a fair way for all members. It's not a charity, I spend lots of time hunting and posting new Amiga/MorphOS & AROS news and have long term improvements in the works for the site. There is no way I would ever please 100% of those that come here. Some complain just to complain or in the hope that hurting Amiga.org will help their competing site. I'll continue to source new Amiga news and enhance the site as much as I can. I recently added a G+ page for Amiga.org that everyone loves. I'm an old time Amiga user that bought Amiga World Issue #1 and own Amiga's old generation and new.

If someone truly has the best interest in mind for Amiga.org they are welcome to PM me anytime with their suggestions.

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Make no mistake and please understand in cgutjahr's world he hopes Amiga.org ceases to exist so he can promote his own Amiga news site. In our opinion this is why he is so critical of Amiga.org. He hopes and dreams to drive traffic to his own site. We hope we are wrong about this but that's what the tea leaves and contacting Orson Wells revealed. We still have to get a 2nd opinion from Alfred Hitchcock.

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I thought the elusive Tedd %&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@! "saved" this place not DFX?

edit: Why was Tedd's surname automatically changed? Very bizarre.

Tedd was part of DFX Partners.

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@Amiga_Nut

The EU is smart.

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i'm sad to see trans fat phased out

Oh no, you will have make a real Apple pie instead of buying the unhealthy McFrankenfood one.

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That's simply not true (again): The amiga.org community would have bought it - the amount people were willing to donate to that task had already reached close to 5000 USD.

That's easy for you to say 4 years after the fact. But the truth remains the same. Tedd was the only one that put real $ on the table to acquire the site. Anyone could have outbid him but no one did or even came close. Even the spanish lesbians showed no interest in 2009. Talk is cheap, dollars are real.

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Actually, it's all neatly documented:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=520183&postcount=4


Your claim was that a.org would have died if "Tedd" wouldn't have put money on the table. That's bullcrap, obviously - see above link.

I cgutjahr want Amiga.org to die now. A very slow and painfull death so I can promote my own Amiga news site.

I updated your grammar mistakes to make them more accurate.




The link you posted in your message does not show enough money to buy the site. The price was much higher than that back in 2009. Also keep in mind a pledge is not the same thing as real money. You are welcome to try and organize another Amiga.org buyout if it makes you comfortable. I seriously doubt you would be able to come up with enough community funds to try and buy it a 2nd time because the site is more valuable now than it was in 2009.

Again, if you truly want to help you can PM me your site suggestions or recommendations to improve Amiga.org. Unlike many other forums site owners on the internet I am actually available and listen to member feedback if they don't have an alternative agenda. I know it's a PM you will never send me but I'm willing to entertain the idea that maybe you will change your mind and want to help the oldest and one of the largest Amiga sites on the internet. Of course there are other great Amiga sites too, EAB comes to mind.

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Will you actually listen to it? What about all the member feedback that has been left in these threads so far? If we reiterate it in PM format, will it actually have any effect?

Yes, the best way to communicate with me is via PM. It avoids all the noise of  the forums and if you PM me it gets added to my long list of future site enhancements and improvements.