subject: Margarine: Low Iq And Heart Attacks [print this page] Hard to believe but trueHard to believe but true. A very recent study measured the IQ levels of children who consumed margarine every day and found them to be significantly lower that the IQ of children who did not ate margarine (1). The sad thing is that margarine is supposed to be a healthy alternative to butter, literally promoting health and vitality. Consumers are heavily misled at this point. No marketing campaign reveals the details of the industrial procedures that margarine goes through while in the production stages. The use of toxic chemicals and high temperatures are necessary for the production of margarine but also make it a highly toxic and inflammatory product itself. These man - made butter like products not only have been proved to raise LDL and lower HDL but htey are linked to chronic inflammation, a major factor for heart disease (2)
Another study, (3) tracked people for 20 years and recorded the number of heart attacks suffered and is also backed up by the world-famous Framingham Heart Study. The results are in complete disagreement with everything we have been told so far. As margarine consumption increased, heart attacks went up. As butter consumption increased, heart attacks declined. During the second decade, the group eating the most margarine had 77% more heart attacks than the group eating none!
The Framingham Study is considered to be the research project backing up the conventional theories for heart disease and cholesterol for many decades now. After 40 years, the director of the Framingham Study admitted: "In Framingham, the more saturated fat one ate, the more cholesterol one ate, the more calories one ate, the lower the person's serum cholesterol. . . we found that the people who ate the most cholesterol, ate the most saturated fat, ate the most calories, weighed the least and were the most physically active."
I guess that the point to take home from the above studies, is that things are not always the way they are presented by the media. We need to be ultra careful when it comes to information about our health or even more important, our children's health.
References
1.Theodore, RF., Thompson, JMD., et al. Dietary patterns and intelligence in early and middle childhood, Intelligence. 2009; 37(5):506-513
2.C. Oomen, M. Ocke, et al, "Association between trans fatty acid intake and 10-year risk of coronary heart disease in the Zutphen Elderly Study: The Lancet, Volume 357, Issue 9258, Pages 746-751
3."Margarine Intake and Subsequent Coronary Heart Disease in Men. Matthew W. Gillman, L. Adrienne Cupples, et al. Epidemiology Vol. 8, No. 2 (Mar., 1997), pp. 144-149
