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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmaxhealth.com ...


TOPICS: Food
KEYWORDS: butter; margarine
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To: Signalman
Wasn't there a Woody Allen film that depicted him traveling to the future where the scientists told him that ice cream sundaes were actually good for you, and vegetables were bad? Are we caught inside a Woody Allen film?

Now, having amused myself with that thought; my husband and I have been following the Gary Taubes' diet regimen and we are back on the butter. My late father always refused to eat the "margarine", and he ate butter til his dying day. I guess his 8th grade education trumps all the know-it-all science types we have today.

21 posted on 02/16/2013 2:54:34 PM PST by LibertarianLiz
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To: Signalman

How do we know these “new” health experts don’t have it wrong........LOL!


22 posted on 02/16/2013 2:56:20 PM PST by basil (basil)
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To: Signalman

Learned a long time ago...flies won’t eat margarine....
Why should I ?


23 posted on 02/16/2013 2:56:20 PM PST by Popman
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To: Signalman

24 posted on 02/16/2013 2:58:26 PM PST by ThomasThomas (Normal isn't normal anymore.)
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To: BobL

You don’t wash your hands every time you go to the bathroom?


25 posted on 02/16/2013 3:00:24 PM PST by CatherineofAragon (Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization)
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To: Signalman

BUTTER IS BETTER!! **bumper stickers should be issued**


26 posted on 02/16/2013 3:00:28 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: muawiyah

Well soybeans and corn are genetically modified also so no joy there. Also once you’ve partially hyrdogenated the vegetable oil you’ve created a health disaster.


27 posted on 02/16/2013 3:01:01 PM PST by sunshine state
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To: Signalman
"Of course Butter is better, Who want's to hang out with Mean Old Margarine anyhow?"


28 posted on 02/16/2013 3:03:35 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: bigheadfred

Salted butter was created to hid the flavor of rancid butter - an issue before the widespread availability of refrigeration, or so I have been told.


29 posted on 02/16/2013 3:04:54 PM PST by Little Ray (Waiting for the return of the Gods of the Copybook Headings.)
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To: All

Does anyone remember Oleo?

Blech! what a hideous concept.


30 posted on 02/16/2013 3:05:15 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: AU72

Remember the 70’s when Eggs were going to kill you?


31 posted on 02/16/2013 3:06:47 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

That is what we use sometimes it good all by itself


32 posted on 02/16/2013 3:08:13 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: muawiyah

No, Margarine is hydrogenated.
Butter is not.


33 posted on 02/16/2013 3:09:35 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: trebb

I don’t know about the dangers of salt, but it may be. They always throw in a handful of salt, but if the stuff you are using already has salt there is no need to add more. And most of the admonitions are to add ingredients to taste. My doc told me with my high blood pressure I could eat all the salt I want/s . The issue I have between butter and oleo is the price. But I prefer butter.


34 posted on 02/16/2013 3:12:41 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: GeronL
PAR-KAY!!

I think that Korean TV is poisoning you. Maybe we need to put you on a diet.

35 posted on 02/16/2013 3:15:41 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: Popman
"flies won’t eat margarine...."

You are right! BUT - flies will eat POOP!

36 posted on 02/16/2013 3:15:56 PM PST by yorkie
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To: CatherineofAragon

You’re damn right I don’t, like 95% of Americans and something like 70% of the doctors that you let poke you...

http://boingboing.net/2010/03/09/study-says-us-doctor.html


37 posted on 02/16/2013 3:17:18 PM PST by BobL
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To: mylife
BUTTER IS BETTER!! **bumper stickers should be issued**

There go the Crisco parties.

38 posted on 02/16/2013 3:17:33 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: Signalman
Okay, how much more taxes do we have to pay so that the researchers can do more studies .
39 posted on 02/16/2013 3:17:45 PM PST by oldbrowser (They are marxists, don't call them democrats)
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To: mylife

lol.

these health myths are annoying aren’t they?

I read that in Korea a lot of people think fans will kill you.

You see, once the temp. hit about 100 f - fans don’t make you feel cooler any more and start dehydrating you. SO people died in front of fans during bad heat waves.

Putting a bowl of ice or a wet towel in front of the fan would have helped.


40 posted on 02/16/2013 3:17:45 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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