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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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.
How do we know these “new” health experts don’t have it wrong........LOL!
Learned a long time ago...flies won’t eat margarine....
Why should I ?
You don’t wash your hands every time you go to the bathroom?
BUTTER IS BETTER!! **bumper stickers should be issued**
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.
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.
Does anyone remember Oleo?
Blech! what a hideous concept.
Remember the 70’s when Eggs were going to kill you?
That is what we use sometimes it good all by itself
No, Margarine is hydrogenated.
Butter is not.
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.
I think that Korean TV is poisoning you. Maybe we need to put you on a diet.
You are right! BUT - flies will eat POOP!
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
There go the Crisco parties.
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.
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