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Butter vs. Margarine: New Research Reveals Which is Healthier
newsmax ^ | 2/15/2013 | Sylvia Booth Hubbard

Posted on 02/16/2013 2:37:32 PM PST by Signalman

Margarine isn't better for your heart than butter — it's worse, according to a new analysis of a 40-year-old study. For 50 years, health experts and organizations, including the American Heart Association, have urged people to replace butter and other saturated fats in their diets with vegetable oils to reduce the risk of heart disease. Millions of Americans responded by replacing butter with margarine made from omega-6 polyunsaturated vegetable oils found in corn and safflower oil.

Decades later, however, heart disease is still the leading cause of death in both American men and women, and a recent analysis of data collected from 1966 to 1973 indicates that replacing butter and other saturated fats with vegetable oils may have increased the risk of heart disease instead of reducing it.

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TOPICS: Food
KEYWORDS: butter; margarine
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To: goodwithagun

Coconut oil is also great as a personal lubricant.

Great for making popcorn, too.


181 posted on 02/16/2013 8:07:30 PM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: dragnet2
The part about luring worms out with raw meat was the funny part.

When I was a little girl in the mid 40’s margarine was a new product. It was white and a packet of orange powder was included with the white margarine. My mother would let me mix the orange powder until the margarine was yellow.

182 posted on 02/16/2013 8:14:52 PM PST by Ditter
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To: SeaHawkFan; goodwithagun
Coconut oil is also great as a personal lubricant. Great for making popcorn, too.

There may be another way of saying all of that in one simple line.

183 posted on 02/16/2013 8:14:59 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: Signalman

bttt R!


184 posted on 02/16/2013 11:27:57 PM PST by ADemocratNoMore (Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)
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To: Signalman

frickin butter is healthier. You don’t have to swab a ton of it on your bread but, a cube on your tub of popcorn is just so delicious!

Here’s a trick. Use a cube of unsalted butter and then use a bit of garlic salt. You’ll use less salt and have a great taste of popcorn.

Yummm!!!


185 posted on 02/17/2013 1:00:43 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: VastRWCon

I love “I can’t believe it’s not butter spray”.

I will use that on my popcorn. Everything else cept butter is out.


186 posted on 02/17/2013 1:02:53 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: trebb

The reason chefs prefer unsalted butter is they want to control seasoning.

I have two friends who are CIA Grads and one went to Cordon Bleu.

I wondered about their use of unsalted butter when I first met them and that’s what they told me.

I prefer unsalted butter to control sodium but, if all I got is Pluguer butter, then I’ll use it and skip the salt shaker.

Luv Pluguer...


187 posted on 02/17/2013 1:05:53 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: mylife

Yep. It was lie by people selling books and tapes.

Eggs contain cholesteral and they also contain lecithan.

Lecithan breaks down cholesteral and there is 9 times more lecithan, in an egg, than is required to break it down.

Eggs is healthy eatin...

Though I like egg whites or two egg white and a whole egg.

Yep, that’s what’s fer breakfast... or maybe some Menudo...

Oh man, now I’m hungry...


188 posted on 02/17/2013 1:10:50 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: 444Flyer

Ohhhhh!!!!

Just picked two bricks of Kerrygold tonight!

I have no idea what that flavor it but, I crave it...


189 posted on 02/17/2013 1:15:02 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Atlantan

Some time in the late sixties I believe. I could tell immediately when my mother was using oleo in her baked goods as well just from spreading the stuff on bread. Awful.


190 posted on 02/17/2013 2:47:21 AM PST by driftless2
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To: muawiyah

Never had one, but it sounds good. Probably nothing like what’s in the cans of refried beans from the stores, is it? I’ve never had any really good Mexican food; I’m deprived here in PA.


191 posted on 02/17/2013 4:30:16 AM PST by Carriage Hill (AR-10s & AR-15s Are The 21st Century's Muskets. Free Men Need Not Ask Permission!)
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To: Signalman
For 50 years, health experts and organizations, including the American Heart Association, have urged people to replace butter and other saturated fats in their diets with vegetable oils to reduce the risk of heart disease.

And for 50 years, I've completely ignored them.

192 posted on 02/17/2013 4:32:55 AM PST by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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To: Popman
Learned a long time ago...flies won’t eat margarine.... Why should I ?

Leave your diet cola can sitting outside, they won't touch that either.

193 posted on 02/17/2013 4:38:12 AM PST by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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To: carriage_hill

Read the labels on the refried beans ~ Goya has one brand with LARD!


194 posted on 02/17/2013 5:39:57 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: bigheadfred

keys are broken on my input device ~ i’m a traditionalist and i like to keep the old familiar, but broken, keys


195 posted on 02/17/2013 5:41:27 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: Vendome

I’m fixin to go get two over easy right now!


196 posted on 02/17/2013 6:04:52 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Signalman; All
I remember back in the 1950s, most housewives switched to margarine, it was heavily promoted on TV.

I'll tell you how far back I go.
I remember my mother handing me the bag, yes bag of white oleo (looked like Crisco) and letting me knead the yellow color tab into the mix.

We've used real butter for years.

A really good book..' Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach ' by Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw. Written in 1982, way ahead of its time.
He promoted the antioxidant theory, minoxidil (Rogaine), and other health issues way before they became mainstream.
He promoted animal fats over vegetable fats for the primary reason that when animal fats start to go rancid (oxidize) you can detect it with your nose at 10 % or less rancid.
Vegetable fats, 30 % or more before you detect it.
Oxidation of body chemicals being the main cause of aging, according to his book, avoiding rancid foods is of primary importance.
He promoted massive doses of antioxidants, vit. C, D, E and others.

197 posted on 02/17/2013 6:59:41 AM PST by Vinnie (A)
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To: Vinnie

Read my post #182. I mixed the yellow powder into the white margarine too. We must be about the same age. :)


198 posted on 02/17/2013 7:45:37 AM PST by Ditter
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To: Ditter

LOL. “Let me, let me !”


199 posted on 02/17/2013 8:32:21 AM PST by Vinnie (A)
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To: carriage_hill
My Mother (RIP 5/2/11) was a big proponent of margarine in the 50s & 60s, but we kids wouldn’t eat it on anything. After 40yrs, both her neck carotid arteries clotted-up and she suffered 6 very minor TIAs, and they had to be surgically bypassed. We tried for years to wean her off that garbage, but she loved it, and I blame it partially for killing her.

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I'm very sorry about the loss of your Mother.

My mother was a fan of margarine as well. She died of heart failure, which was found to have been the result of clogged arteries as well. My husband and I use butter, olive oil and peanut oil. Imho, the taste of margarine can't compare to the taste of butter or olive oil.

200 posted on 02/17/2013 12:49:35 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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