This reminds me of a 20 year plus ongoing breast cancer study of
hundreds of nurses that ended up stating that fat intake had no
effect whatsoever on the nurses' developing future breast cancer.

But the researchers did not track who was eating saturated,
monosaturated or polyunsaturared fats.  The ratio of cis fats
versus trans fats were therefore not monitored or even mentioned.
Of what good was this study then?

I recently posted the following and no one on the list commented:

Jean Carper, health jouralist's article previous Sunday, March 4
USA Today had this article regarding dangers of trans fats
(hydrogenated fats):

Article, "From the Fat Front," also quotes soy and trans fat researcher
Mary G Enig Phd. "...research shows trans fatty acid promotes heart
disease cancer, diabetes, immune dysfunction, obesity and reproductive
problems."  Article states:

Reproductive Problems
"Pregnant and lacting women really should cut down on trans fats.
Recent
research shows pregnant women with the highest levels of a common trans
fat had 7 times the risk of pre-eclampsia, the complication of pregnancy
characterized by edema and high blood pressure.  High trans fats also
may harm fetal and infant development.  Mothers hwo eat trans fats pass
them on to infants during breast feeding.  Infants feasting on trans
fats
may have diminished visual acuity and brain development."


The stiff (and later clogged) arteries of the Lucas paper may be an
indicator of starting infants on "biscuits" [cookies] in England, as
their
society as a whole lives on them--the hydrogenated type--at tea times
and
before bed.  At least that is what I was offered every time I visited an
English family, while staying with my American widowed brother the last
few years, which was at least twice a year.

If author Enig is right, then breastfeeding mothers who consume gobs of
these hydrogenated fats are producing a disproportionate amount of trans
fatty acid in their own human milk, plus introducing a modern day rather
than an historical fat into their babies diets, rather than jarred baby
vegetables or meats or food from their own dinner tables.

The parents of young children I visited never ate with their young ones,
but served them "something" (I never saw what) and put them to bed so
that mother and father could have a real dinner together alone
(their time), undisturbed every evening.

When we (the invited guests) appeared, we were told the children had
been
fed and been put to bed.  But the roast or whatever being served to us
had
not even been ready for the children to have had a foretaste of the
dinner.

British culture here, as these were college educated, professional
parents, children of professionals, whose own mother (the paternal
grandma)
was a high school home economics teacher and father a college
professor.

This was the pattern of my late sister-in-law's family and the way she
and her siblings were raised.  It has gone on for generations there.

Judy Ritchie

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