I wonder if this is from all vegetable oils or if it is linked to partially hydrogenated oils or trans-fats?
Dan CS>Macular degeneration Terry Chamberlin wrote: Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 07:26:33 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Macular Degeneration Eye condition linked to diet REPORTER: Anna Coren BROADCAST DATE: July 5, 2004 Macular degeneration is the most common cause of blindness in Australia but new research suggests avoiding vegetable oils could prevent the condition. It's spreading like a disease * a blindness called macular degeneration affecting at least 800,000 Australians and costing $1.5 billion per year in health care. But with the latest research pointing to vegetable oils as the main culprit, it's possible we may be able to fend off this disease by simply changing our diets. You might not cook with vegetable or canola oil but take a look at the ingredients in any sauce, dip, bread, margarine or biscuit * any processed food for that matter. Vegetable oil is hidden in all of them. Most of us have been consuming these processed foods from the time we could walk. Dr Paul Beaumont from the macular degeneration foundation has been studying the link. "[The research] showed that people eating vegetable oil got the disease twice as commonly as the people who didn't," Dr Beaumont said. "Even more convincing was a prospective study where they looked at patients with the disease and those eating too much vegetable oil progressed at 3.8 times the rate of those eating a little vegetable oil. -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
