I have been upset & disgusted for quite some time over the new Meadow Lea advertisement in which they try & make mother's feel guilty about feeding their children a 'real food', namely butter. It's about time the 'lipid hypothesis' became main stream knowledge. (I will re post the You Tube clip this week that I featured last year).
I have never put margarine on my table & never will. A thin spread of butter rather than a spread of vegetable oils ( these cause macular degeneration of the eyes), plus preservatives & in some cases, colour, is a far better choice to include on toast & in children's lunches.
A study conducted by researchers from Auckland University in New Zealand & published in the journal 'Intelligence' compared the IQ of children consuming margarine to those consuming butter over a considerable time period.
After adjusting for other factors that might influence IQ, the researchers found that those children eating margarine daily scored 3 points lower on IQ tests by the age of 3 and half than children who consumed butter. By the age of 7 yrs., the average IQ scores of some margarine eaters were 6 points below those of their peers! Reason enough to NOT FEEL GUILTY!
There are typically 2 ingredients in butter- cream & salt.
In case you wondered, the ingredients for MeadlowLea are:
Vegetable Oils 65% (containing 52% Canola & Sunflower Oil), water, salt, <1% (emulsifiers (soy lecithin, 471), preservative (202), food acid (lactic)), milk solids, maltodextrin, natural colour (beta-carotene), vitamins A & D, flavour.
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