Despite efforts to increase the nutritional value of food offered to students in moves such as the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, retail giant, Wal Mart's bold initiative to phase out trans fats by 2015, and the USDA's latest announcement of their pledge to upgrade the nutritional profile of school meals, students are still pushing trans fats on each other and their communities by way of Girl Scout cookies that have been marked as containing "0 grams trans fat" since 2007.

Trans fats have been at the center of heated debates for some time—receiving even more scrutiny in the last decade as cases of childhood obesity, hypertension and heart disease are rising significantly. In a recently published article in the American Journal of Health Promotion, Eric Brandt of the Case Western University School of Medicine seeks stricter FDA guidelines on this deadly ingredient, which under current regulations can be deceptively mislabeled.