Oreo an Endangered Cookie

Do you enjoy Oreo cookies? I know i do but that isn't

what this essay is

about. This is about the misguided attempts to lower obesity in our society.

Recently a lawyer, Stephen Joseph, took it upon himself to tell the world that drugs,

smoking, and drunk driving are not the biggest threats to our health. He believes

that the next great killer will be....Oreos!

Apperently this man thinks everyone in America is to stuiped to know that

cookies are not healthy. So Stephen went and filed a law suit against Kraft, the

maker of Nabisco products, in the hopes of peranently banning the sale of those

crunchy, creamy goodies to Californians under the age of 21. He started his case

by saying that Oreos' "trans fats", the by-product of turning cooking oils into a room

temperature solid, is bad for you.

Mr. Joseph's second claim is that not a lot of people know about the danger

of trans fats. Well after his first claim the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of

Medicine