Room Service: Hold the Trans Fats
Hotels are jumping into the healthy-eating trend. Marriott International has just joined a growing list of hotels and food service companies that are banning trans fats. In an announcement yesterday, the hotel chain said it is phasing out the use of trans fats in the cooking of French fries and other products at all its properties' restaurants. Trans fats, contained in hydrogenated oils, are thought to increase levels of bad cholesterol. So Marriott is making it easier to eat right. But do travelers want that?
Do you want the cookies you snarf down before jumping into a swimsuit and heading out to the beach to be made with butter instead of trans fat saturated margarine? Or the potato chips in the mini-bar to be baked instead of fried?
Marriott is not the first hotel to rid its kitchens of trans fats. Omni Hotels also announced yesterday that it is eliminating trans fats from 40 properties by March 1. And Loew's said late last year that it, too, is phasing out the use of hydrogenated oils in its 18 hotels and resorts.
Will these moves make a difference in your travel choices? Are you more likely now to opt for one of these properties rather than a room at a hotel which is sticking to trans fats?
By Gary Lee |
February 2, 2007; 2:22 PM ET
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Posted by: Philly | February 2, 2007 3:39 PM
Philly, how do YOU choose food without transfats when there is no requirement that you be told which foods are not made with them, or even a rule to forbid lying about it?
Posted by: Kenatworldnet | February 2, 2007 5:31 PM
I feel left out. As a non-glutton who eats foods that are tasty and healthy I don't get to benefit from the removal of trans fats from junk food.
Removing the transfatty acids from greasy snacks may lower the chance of heart disease and stroke, but it is not going to make fat Americans any thinner, which is what this issue is all about, not health, but magazine approved physical appearance.
Go to the gym, transfatso!
Posted by: skinny | February 6, 2007 8:17 PM
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of course not!! I can make my own choices about what to order when eating out. I don't need hotels to police my food options for me. I would not choose a hotel on the basis of whether or not they were on the transfat bandwagon.