At 07:12 PM 5/14/01 +0200, Hans Kylberg wrote:
>Research on 18000 Swedish 16 year olds shows that 30-40 % of them have
>some kind of allergy. They have been asked various questions about life
>style, environment and so on. It does not give any answer to why
>allergies have become 300-400% more common the last 40 years, but new
>questions have arisen.
>On interesting fact is that the ones who use butter on their bread have
>less allergy than those who use margarine instead. And those who smear no
>fat on their bread are the ones with most allergy problems!
>(It is very usual to eat bread and "butter", usually with cheese or ham
>on, in Sweden, several slices a day.)

If type of fat determines what future cell walls are made of (roughly
speaking), perhaps the quality of cells with trans-fat building blocks is
just that much poorer?  Sorry to be so vague, I have only a superficial
picture of what happens, so it's a vague idea :)

Dianne