The list of foods not to eat grows longer every day. The latest: Oreos

All right, I always knew Oreos were not health food. Last year, I read that foodstuffs containing trans-fat were the latest no-nos; trans-fat being shortening, margarine and other hydrogenated vegetable fats. The latest is that Oreos are about as full of trans-fat as a cookie can get. That yummy creme filling is nothing more than shortening flavored with sugar.

Well, I haven’t eaten Oreos in a few years, and I don’t plan to restart, but Jebus! Can’t the scientists leave the junk food alone?

Whine, whine.

Well, they used to use sugared lard for the creme filling, and changed over because vegetable shortening was supposedly much healthier. Now that lard is widely suspected of getting a largely bum rap, maybe they’ll switch back. Oreos’ll be a ton tastier if they do!

Nooooooooooo!

Say it ain’t so, Joe!

I’ll give up my Oreos when they pry them from my cold, dead fingers.

You don’t really live longer by eating healthy food - it just seems like it.

Or you spend all those years eating healthy, exercising, and living on granola and tofu and then, one day, BOOM…hit by a cement truck. Why bother?

In all seriousness, and I wish I could find a cite but am too lazy:
A longitudinal research study followed a number of men with high cholesterol. Half followed therapies to lower the cholesterol, but after the study period the death rate was the same in both groups. Those who lowered their cholesterol did have fewer deaths from vascular disorders such as heart attacks. This was offset by an increase in deaths by violence and accident. The theory was that there is a relationship between cholesterol and testosterone, and that those who lowered their cholesterol took more chances and were more aggressive. Again, just a recollection, take it for what it’s worth, which is probably not a lot.

Ah, so it’s a man’s civic duty to stuff himself on Oreos! Oreos for Peace…

Just returned from a trip to Dairy Queen. Notice they now have peanut butter-Oreo blizzards now.