In some publications that contain information about the dangers that bring products saturated with cholesterol, in the list of these most harmful products you can find butter. However, the harm to health from its consumption is much less compared to trans fats. Therefore, WHO strongly recommends to reconsider his attitude to Margarine.
At the end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th century, the largest discoveries occurred in different fields, among which achievements in chemistry and physics took a special place, since they have a direct impact on the health of not an individual person, but of all of humanity as a whole. And a positive effect is not always observed.
So, Paul Sabatier, the Nobel laureate in the field of chemistry, which created the method of obtaining solid margarine from liquid vegetable oils, and did not suspect what effect it would have on the health of people in the future.
It is known that margarine and other similar solid fats that are obtained using special technologies from vegetable oil are called hydrogenated fats, all known as trans fats. 70 years after the invention of the field of Sabatier, scientists came to the conclusion that hydrogenized fats bring exceptional harm to the heart and vessels.
To date, some countries have abandoned the use of trans fats, banning them, however, on the rest of our planet (for the larger) they are widely used, both in catering establishments and in home cooking due to their cheapness.
Australian scientists from the University of the city of Sydney (University of Sydney) conducted a large-scale study of prohibitions on the use of trans fats in a number of countries: Denmark, Holland, Canada, South Korea and others, in which the prohibitions and restrictions on trans-fats were introduced over the past two dozen years.
According to the authors of the study, the ban on the use of margarine and other hydrogenated fats is a very effective measure of warning of unusually dangerous vascular diseases and hearts that are common all over the world. We are talking about strokes and heart attacks.
To assess the scale of the effectiveness of such a ban, you can compare its effectiveness with the effect of smoking prohibitions. This is confirmed by the data obtained: for example, in the regions of countries where margarine and other trans-generation fats are prohibited for use, in a year or two strokes and heart attacks decreased by an average of 15-20%, but in other regions where there is no such prohibition , the incidence, on the contrary, increased.
The problem of the harm of hydrogenated fats and the need to start the global struggle against their use will be raised at the 66th WHO Assembly, which will be planned at the end of May 2013.
