Have a smart baby! Eat no trans fats- lower IQ

Trans fats lower baby's IQ. True, absolutely. Read on to understand why we should not let corporations make profits at the cost of your babies intelligence.

Our brains are mostly fats. Most of the fat in the brain is in the form of long chain fatty acids.
These long chain fatty acids are in breast milk as well as more expensive bay formula in the form of DHA and AA.
Long chain fatty acids are synthesized in the body from short chain fatty acids in our foods. Oils, nuts, meats, and dairy are the primary source of the various fatty acids in our diet. Our body can synthesize these long chain fatty acids which are the building blocks of the brain. The process is similar to making a long railroad train by connecting the individual boxcars with links.
So what do trans fats do? They BLOCK the enzyme the body uses to make these links. I mean if God were to make a specific compound to block this long chain fatty acid making process it would be trans fats. Trans fats are so similar to the real thing that they totally confuse the process.

Fetal Cord blood measurement of fatty acid composition at birth have shown an inverse relation between trans fat levels and DHA levels in the blood. Please read this study-- http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/74/3/364

Also a study published in Nature compared cognitive function in infants breast fed. vs formula with LCFA vs formula without LCFA added. Cognitive function was clearly lowest in the third group.
Visual development issues are important too as the retina is struturally neural tissue.

Uauy, R., D. R. Hoffman, et al. (2003). "Term infant studies of DHA and ARA supplementation on neurodevelopment: results of randomized controlled trials." J Pediatr 143(4 Suppl): S17-25.

Healthy term infants who are not breast-fed may need long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFA) in their feeding, based on the changes in plasma and tissue fatty composition. However, consistent functional effects across different studies conducted over the past two decades has been more difficult to document. The interpretation of these data has scientific and public interest with the introduction of LCPUFA supplemented formula. There are 14 controlled trials in term infants that have included formula feeding with or without LCPUFA and functional assessment of visual and other measures of neural development; in addition, 7 have evaluated specific measures related to cognitive development. We chose to examine the effect of DHA dose provided daily on the development of visual acuity to explain the differences in visual acuity responses across randomized studies. A "meta-regression" was performed with the use of a DHA effective dose as the independent variable and visual acuity at 4 months as the dependent variable. Since the two main dietary determinants of DHA status are the LNA provided and the preformed DHA consumed, we defined DHA equivalent dose across studies by assuming a 1%, 5%, and 10% conversion of LNA to DHA. Results indicate a strong and significant effect of DHA equivalent dose on magnitude of the visual acuity response at all conversions tested; greatest significance was found when using a 10% bioequivalency (r(2)=0.68, and P=.001). We conclude that there is a significant relation between the total DHA equivalents provided and effectiveness as defined by visual acuity measurements at 4 months of age.

SO MOMS--NO FAST FOOD AND FRANCHISE FOOD IN PREGNANCY AND LACTATION FOR THE MOM. WATCH THE LABELS FOR HYDROGENATED OILS. EAT SIMPLY.

More later. Have a smart baby!

Vinod

USA lifespan increase over 2 decades lags behind Europe

Life Span is dropping

Life span in America is dropping. Pop caused obesity and the Trans Fatty Acids hidden in fast food and franchise restaurant food, school and employee cafeteria food and many items in our grocery stores, are a one-two knockout punch.

Transfats have been categorically proven to increase heart attacks and heart arrhythmias; to cause poorer pregnancy outcomes by increasing pre-eclampsia and decreasing fetal birth weight; to impact nerve health potentially lowering IQ in the new born and infant and damaging the retina increasing macular degeneration and blindness in the elderly. They also increase complications in diabetic patients of all ages.

Sugars in the large quantities in drinks and juices bypass the brains appetite center, stimulate high insulin levels and abdominal fat accumulation. Each meal eaten has hundreds of added liquid calories that we drink! That, not lack of exercise is resulting in our national obesity epidemic.

When eating out ask about Trans fats.

Your heart, your eyes and your baby’s brain depends on it.

And the only liquid you should drink with your meals is water. Or milk if you so desire.

Your life depends on it.

Health Care Costs Escalating- unusual allies Walmart and Unions!

Health Care Costs Escalating

Health costs at Walmart have gone up 50% in 3 years.

Walmart says its employees are sicker than the national average especially with obesity related health problems.

The one-two knockout punch to Walmart and our nations health is pop along with Trans Fatty Acids in fast food, franchise restaurant food, school and employee cafeteria food and grocery store items.

Let me explain.

Sugars in drinks and juices bypass our appetite satiety center; stimulate high insulin levels and abdominal fat accumulation. Each meal has hundreds of added liquid calories! One 18 oz bottle of coke per day adds up to over 7000 spoons of sugar per year. No one can keep up with that for long. We become obese.

Trans fats cause increased heart attacks, gallstones, pregnancy complications, macular degeneration among other ailments.

Health care costs escalate. Blue collar and service industry workers and the young are most vulnerable to this nutrition knowledge gap. Many who do know, have no choice as they can only afford cheap fast food.

US Corporations pay health care benefits to many employees. Rapidly inflating health insurance costs are a big concern. Unions have had to give concessions lately on health care issues. All pay higher health insurance premiums.

Fast food Corporations use Trans Fat Oils because it costs them less. Others profit greatly on pop.

Unions and corporations need to realize that they are enhancing McDonald’s, KFC and other TFA purveyors’ bottom line as well that of Coke, Pepsi and others that sell high sugar drinks, while their own bottom line suffers as health care costs rise.

Both need to join the battle against sugar and trans fats. They need to demand that schools sell no pop. They need to demand that KFC, McDonald’s and other fast and franchise food places remove Trans Fats from their food. They need to put their clout behind the push to totally ban trans fats. Maybe Walmart, GM and others should even push for a sugar tax on pop!

Or just push for universal health insurance and never again worry about their employees’ health or how much it costs them.