Obama Nanny State Continues

From the New York Daily News:
Trans fats are going, going — and may soon be gone completely, if a proposed ban by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration takes hold.
The proposal, announced Thursday on the FDA's website, would require the food industry to gradually phase out all trans fats due to mounting health concerns.
A ban could prevent 20,000 heart attacks and 7,000 deaths each year according to Centers for Disease Control and prevention estimates, the FDA said. Though many companies have already dropped trans fats from their products, they "remain an area of significant public concern," FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg told the Associated Press.
The FDA has made a preliminary decision that trans fats no longer fall under the "generally recognized as safe," or GRAS, category that includes thousands of food additives that manufacturers can include in their products without FDA review. Once finalized, food manufacturers would have to petition the agency to allow their use, which would likely be unapproved.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/fda-ban-artery-clogging-trans-fats-article-1.1509489#ixzz2k2QBv0Q6
So, 7000 deaths will be prevented each year?  Will these people suddenly live forever?
If the Obama nannies want to end obesity, then they should start with the people on food stamps and make the people on food stamps buy only healthy food.  This will save millions of dollars in health care and save thousands upon thousands of lives each year.
But the Obama nannies want to punish all of us by getting rid of trans fats when most people really don't care or don't want the nannies interfering with our food.
Maybe Obama can start by going on an all tofu diet.