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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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KEYWORDS: butter; margarine
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To: Vendome; Buddygirl

Off to the store right now for my own bricks O’ butter.:) Perhaps their secret is happy cows relaxed and grazing on dark green fields of grass on Emerald Isle. Well worth the price.

Sláinte!


201 posted on 02/17/2013 3:53:46 PM PST by 444Flyer (Obama killed the Twinkie, but not the Terrorists in Benghazi. What's wrong with this picture?)
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To: 444Flyer

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202 posted on 02/17/2013 4:35:09 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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203 posted on 02/21/2013 5:48:43 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: bigheadfred

lol, bhfred. Now it all makes sense.


204 posted on 02/21/2013 5:59:08 PM PST by Girlene
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LOL.
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205 posted on 02/21/2013 6:19:39 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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I’m lost.

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206 posted on 02/21/2013 6:38:50 PM PST by bigheadfred
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I’m lost too, Onyx.


207 posted on 02/21/2013 7:20:21 PM PST by 50mm (Trust nobody and you'll never be disappointed.)
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hahaha

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208 posted on 02/21/2013 7:51:22 PM PST by bigheadfred
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