Medicine from the supermarket: expensive and often unnecessary
Too much cholesterol in the body can cork the arteries (atherosclerosis). It is threatening heart attack and stroke. But there are rescue for it: efficient simply by the Special margarine or yogurt cups, and that’s everything in good order. No wonder that in the supermarket like to “healthy” fat-core work. It is many consumers do not think clearly what they eat and how it process on their body. That can be dangerous. Especially, it caused by many consumers whose do not have excessive cholesterol levels.
The Federal Ministry for Risk Assessment (FMRA) and the consumer center carried out a survey on the subject.
From more than 1000 surveyed buyers consumed almost half (45 percent) Cholesterol-lowering either to prevent food to a healthy diet or because the fortified products taste delicious. “And these are not everyday food consumption,” warns the study director Christa Bergmann in NetDoktor discussion. Indeed, to prevent good for nothing; cholesterol was also “not a poison”. In moderation it takes even the body, such as the production of sex hormones such as estrogen.
The uncritical consumption of cholesterol-killer is still a further reason for concern: The plant sterols inhibit the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins, especially beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A. The consequences of a defect can visual disturbances, changes in the mucous membranes or Growth disorders in children and adolescents. Therefore, the pregnant women, nursing mothers and children under five years are Cholesterol-lowering no food to eat. All other consumers need to be more fruit and vegetables are becoming increasingly vitamin loss to compensate.
According to study from many consumers, the recommended daily dose of up to two to three grams of plant note. If you look at the special margarine to the fortified sunflower bread and lubricates the whole thing with the Cholesterol-lowering diet and wash it down into milk, may take much longer to plant as recommended. In addition, the substances are also naturally present in fat, plant foods, such as sunflower seeds, sesame and vegetable oils. For more than ten percent is the cholesterol but will not be reduced. It is not clear yet what to plant large quantities of permanent effect in the body.
Possibly passiere the same as for people involved in the extremely rare disease Phytosterolamine suffered so Bergmann. Due to a genetic fault, the plant significantly more body from the food - instead of five to ten percent are up to 60 percent. The plant, Teri levels in the blood is thus deprived of the 10 - to 100-fold increase. As a result, inter alia, arteriosclerosis. Yes, you read that correctly! Too much can plant the vessels as well as cholesterol, “but from what quantity is too much, nobody knows yet,” says Birgit Niemann, FMRA to NetDoktor.
In response to the survey asking the BfR consumer centres and the political consequences. Cholesterol-lowering food should be clearly marked with warnings so far. The whole article’s in Netdoktor