Great Nutrition Fraud
                                Health Care  & Disease Control

Dietary cholesterol causes coronary artery disease and death

"Stop eating butter, cream, milk, cheese and meat, especially beef. Eat margarine rich in polyunsaturated oils and use vegetable oils such as sunflower and safflower oils for cooking and salad dressings. This will reduce the incidence of heart disease in our society". Four decades of misinformation at best, and gross medical negligence at worst!

The irrefutable truth is, and always has been, that the evidence to support the above was flawed and that, in my opinion, the National Health & Medical Research Foundation, ably abetted by the National Heart Foundation and other foundations, stand indicted for the premature death by heart disease and cancer of countless hundreds of thousands of individuals in our society.

The truth is that margarines and oils, which are partially hydrogenated are proven to cause heart disease, asthma and cancer at the very least. This evidence was available as long as fifty years ago.

The Institute hereby challenges the National Heart Foundation and The National Health & Medical Research Council to prove that margarine and polyunsaturated oils which have been partially hydrogenated do not cause heart disease, cancer and asthma and that butter, milk, cheese and beef do! Or for that matter, let us throw in prawns, lobster, oysters and eggs.

Partially hydrogenated oils contain Trans-Fatty Acids which are irrefutably proven to increase the risk of Atherosclerosis by increasing the body's production of Lipoprotein (a) which is strongly implicated in Atherosclerosis. They also increase the risk of abnormal blood clotting by increasing the "stickiness" of the platelets in blood cells. Trans-fatty acids increase the risk of Ischemic Heart Disease  and increase the risk of a first heart attack. It has been shown that individuals who consume more than 6 grams of Trans-Fatty Acids per day have a 2.44 times greater risk for a first Heart Attack compared to persons who consume less than 3 grams of Trans-Fatty Acids per day.

It is also proven that Trans-Fatty Acids increase the risk of high blood pressure by increasing blood pressure. By altering the activity of Liver enzymes, trans-fatty acids increase the risk of Cancer, and also Obesity and Asthma. See Trans Fatty Acids

But avoid if pregnant

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When Proccessed to margarine

Or cooking oils
unless cold pressed