American Girl Scouts have seen the light. Their just-as-famous cookies — all eight types — are produced by two cookie manufacturers. Each has found a way to make yummy cookies without trans fats.

Harry Voortman said he dropped the trans fats after lobbying from his daughter, a naturopathic doctor who practises in Oakville, Ont. She stopped eating her dad's cookies years ago for health reasons.

For much of the country, it's Girl Scout cookie time again. And this year, all those cookies, not just the Thin Mints and a few others, will come nearly free of harmful trans fats.

The Girl Guides are working on a new recipe that will nearly eliminate trans fats in their chocolate and vanilla cookies. (Nov. 25, 2008) ...

Those cookies will contain just 0.1 gram of trans fat, and a new, reduced trans-fat chocolate mint cookie is expected to be ready next year.

Voortman Cookies Ltd. may be one of the first companies to eliminate trans fats from its products, but others are also scrambling to tackle the issue, which one leading public-health expert has ...

Tasty foods such as store-bought cookies, crackers, cakes and doughnuts — not to mention French fries — most have trans fats in the shortening used to make them.

It's a cookie lover's dream come true – the goodness of a decadent chocolate chunk cookie, but with none of the guilt that comes from eating a trans fat laden treat.

Industrially produced trans fat, which can be found in a variety of food products and especially in fast food items, is highly hazardous to human health [Scott Barbour/Getty Images] Cookies. Pizza ...

Many of them have already been phased out, but foods that are more likely to contain trans fats are fried items, microwave popcorn, frozen pizza, cakes, cookies, pie crusts, stick margarine, ready ...

Whether it's obvious or sneakily hidden in foods you didn't expect, trans fats are simply no good. How much you consume of it should be carefully maintained! But sometimes, it can be hard to know ...