To “protect the health of its citizens,” the state of Wisconsin is pulling a certain food from its store shelves. And store owners who try to sell it can face …
This Is Your Brain on Margarine
There’s now another reason to avoid margarine. It can make you stupid.
According to researchers at the University of Auckland, children who ate margarine every day had significantly lower IQ scores by the age of three-and-a-half than those who did not.1
And children who were underweight at birth had scores that were even lower by the time they were seven.
The tragedy here is that margarine was sold to us as a “healthier” alternative to butter. In fact, it may be the unhealthiest “food” ever created…
When a 'Tub of Lard' is a Good Thing
Remember the days when everything was cooked with good, old-fashioned butter or lard?
My grandmother cooked with lard her whole life. Most people did… until the government told everybody that animal fat caused heart disease. Then manufacturers introduced substitutes such as shortening and margarine.