Saturated Fats And Heart Disease

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates at the moment that 17.1 millions lives are claimed per year due to cardiovascular diseases

. But it wasn't always like that. In 1930, less than 3,000 deaths per year were due to heart attacks in the USA. In 1950 the number was multiplied many times, reaching a whooping 500,000 heart attacks per year. How did we end up to these horrific numbers?

Of course it is not just diet responsible for this dramatic change. Of course, sanitary conditions have improved massively since the beginning of the century, which certainly helped in the elimination of pneumonia, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. The most important factor though remains the massive change in our diet habits. The fats and oils used in the beginning of the century were butter and lard. By 1950 margarine consumption increased from 2 to 8 pounds while butter consumption dropped from 18 pounds per person per year to 10 pounds. Also processed vegetable oils became very popular that period (average annual consumption tripled per person), not just for household use but for industrial uses mainly. At the moment, vegetable oils are widely used in mass production i.e. desserts, biscuits,ready meals etc.

The problem with margarine and vegetable oils is basically the industrial - chemical refinement process they go through during production. They are processed at high temperatures and the use of toxic chemical solvents is necessary to give the product the ideal properties. A portion of these dangerous chemicals cannot be removed from the final product and therefore it is included in the "healthy" oil or margarine we buy. Although all of these products are originally relatively healthy vegetable oils, after the process they convert to highly refined and dangerous products. The aggressive and misleading marketing that these products receive have caused a major health pandemic of cardiovascular diseases around the globe. They are some of the most unhealthy and dangerous products out there and it is a crime that they are marketed as healthy options. When butter and lard were habitually used cardiovascular diseases were basically unknown and extremely rare conditions. They became very well known indeed and a common theme when consumption of artificial oils skyrocketed as a result of the aggressive marketing they received.

by: Helen Davies

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