[america-rules]

Butter and Natural Fats have been around for hundreds or thousands of years without heart attacks being a major problem.

Heart Attacks started with fake food and oils made with chemicals like the Gov't keeps pushing.

[Shery]

I agree with you. Butter doesn't cause strokes or heart attacks. Eaten with a variety of other poor-choice foods, butter looks like a culprit. However, most people today really eat more margarine...talk about a BAD choice! I will never change from butter. Sorry. They can send me to jail, but I will not eat margarine and I'd rather eat something plain than coated with margarine! Yuck!

Genetics plays the biggest role in heart disease, strokes and obesity. The next culprit is too much sugar, which gets stored as fat in the body, not fat that is eaten. This is a misconception. There is a lot of bad 'science' out there today in regards to nutrition. The government has its fair share of it, too.

[GOP_Proud]

Julia Child began every recipe with butter. Would that I live the active life she lead to the day she died.

[jonrick46]

I have heard that high fructose corn syrup, that is put in our soft drinks and even in our frozen juice concentrates, gets credit for triggering arterial inflammation, which is the primary cause of all of our circulatory system disease. There is a chemical component in corn that triggers a reaction much like your teenage son gets that skin inflammation called acne. This same chemical component gets in the fats of livestock that are fed corn.

Other scientists say that it is the hydrogenation of oil that is causing heart disease; a disease that was practically unheard of 100 years ago.

I am suggesting that heart disease must be approached on a scientific level. Until it is understood what exactly is happening to cause heart disease, everything we do is based upon superstition. The sooner we find the cause, the sooner we can make corrections to eliminate effects of the cause. The real question should be asked: with all the billions poured into heart research, why has there come no answers and no cure for a disease that has happened upon us only in the last 100 years?

[IamConservative]

Hydrogenated fats, highly refined flours and fructose chief among them.

[doberville]

Yep. And I believe obesity is tied to all the lo fat/no fat
products as well.