Viliam Bada
In the latest two congresses SKS in 2012 and 2013 I presented two contributions in the section of paediatric cardiology with similar focus as the name of this article is. In Bratislava on 16 May 2014 there was the presentation of the book: How to prevent diseases of the heart and veins, which was published in the printing house SAMEDI(1), where I paid attention to this relation, but not a separate chapter. The body of editors for Cardiology for practice initiated the proposal to elaborate the relation cholesterol and a child in a form of a survey also for this journal. Within this context let me, in an adjusted form, cite the Nobel Prize winner, a natural scientist and doctor Konrad Lorenz(2): “What is said, we do not listen to, what we listen to, we do not understand, what we understand, we do not accept, what we accept, we are not able to keep.” The quotation shows that K. Lorenz was not just ethologist, but also an excellent psychologist and outstanding expert on human character. Phenomenon of cholesterol as a prototype of something what is not beneficial for the health still persists. Numerous works confirmed that harmfulness of cholesterol in food does not correspond with older concepts. Eight year persisting perspective epidemiological study, in which nearly 118,000 participants took part, confirmed that increased food consumption of one of the biggest sources of cholesterol – hen eggs, does not increase the incidence of cardiovascular diseases at all. Cholesterol and a child are in the completely opposite position. A quickly growing child organism directly acquires increased supply of cholesterol. The child brain shows highest rate of direct dependence in this sense. The most perfect nutrition for a newborn is surely the most natural one - breast feeding. Breastfed children are cleverer, more skilled, psychomotoric development is better, they do not suffer from allergies; breastfed children have higher IQ, they achieve higher education, and have significantly better immunity. In human milk, contrary to unskimmed cow’s milk the concentration of cholesterol is 3-times higher. Children need cholesterol inevitably - this is the citation from the monography by doc. Jurkovicova. Cholesterol deficit in the roughest form is presented by Smith- Lemli-Opitz syndrome (inability to synthesise cholesterol in the liver), the dominant sign of which is severe oligophrenia(1). To substitute human milk by soya milk, which is without any cholesterol and contains an amount of toxic substances is literally damaging. Soya and soya products are for children harmful and practically completely inappropriate food.