Ms. Tuhy chose a method almost as strenuous, eliminating alcohol, sugar, caffeine and fried fats from her diet for two weeks.

In the face of the well being trend, it eliminated trans fats from its French fries.

The Board of Health vote comes a year after it conducted an unsuccessful campaign to persuade restaurants to eliminate trans fats from their recipes voluntarily.

Following that the restaurant focused on eliminating MSG and trans fats from its ingredients.

While many companies are eliminating trans fats from their products, the Agriculture Department has estimated that they are in 40 percent of processed foods.

Bread for the City has eliminated trans fats from the food bags and replaced red meat with fish, pork and poultry.

Eliminate trans fats from your diet.

Kraft scientists have developed a way to eliminate trans fats from such products as Ritz Crackers.

At much lower levels, experts say, it's hard to gauge with accuracy what further benefits can be gained by eliminating trans fats altogether.

If you want to eliminate trans fats entirely, look on the ingredient label and choose foods that do not contain partially hydrogenated oils.