Girl Scout Cookies Contain Dangerous Trans Fats Despite Label Claims

February 3rd, 2011 - Jill Ettinger

3 out of 5 Girl Scout cookies contain dangerous trans fats

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.

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