Butter or Margarine?

[sonshine]

I use butter from free range mostly grass fed cows, same for whole milk too. My personal opinion is that margarine is unhealthy.

Any opposing opinions?

Judy

[momma_to_seven_chi]

I use butter from free range mostly grass fed cows, same for whole milk too. My personal opinion is that margarine is unhealthy.

Any opposing opinions?

Judy

Margerine is terrible for you, as are all trans fats. Butter is much better for you. Saturated fats are not necessarily bad. Even though they do increase LDL, it is the large molecule LDL which is ok. It's the triglicerides and small molecule LDL which is bad. Butter is good for you. Anything God makes is good for you. It's what man does to it in "processing" that makes it into poison. The closer to natural form, the better the food.
Did I mention that we LOVE the Atkins eating plan and research surrounding it?

[gunsmoke]

NOT HERE! I';m on the same page as you, I try not to knowingly consume any margerine or any hydrginated oils. When I do fry I use peanut oil exclusively. I sauie with Olive oil, and I use real butter from real live cows. I'm about to hit 53 and have low triglycerides, very low ldl, healthy hdl, and 18-30 months ago I was catherterized four times and every cardiologist said the same thing, "I HAVE NEVER SEEN PIPES THAT CLEAN ON ANY MAN OF YOUR AGE."

I have a fabulous ejection faction.

I akso eat at least two jumbo eggs a day. My wife is a surgeon and she tells me that all the cholesterol in my blood comes from my very own properly functioning liver, and because my liver works well it really doesn't matter how much cholesterol crosses my lips but she cautions that things CAN change with aging and if my serum lipids do increase I will have to adjust my diet or I may be subject to great bodily harm from unatural causes!

[NCLee]

Judy, you won't get an opposing opinion here.

I've decided to stop my post at this point. Written and deleted several additional comments. I'll just say, I've seen first hand, the effects that trans fats and other so called "healthy" imitation /artificial products have had on my family.

Lee

[Laura]

If I am not mistaken, margarine is 1 molecule away from being plastic.....and if you take a stick of butter and a tub of margarine and set it out on the front porch, the bugs will NOT eat the margarine, but will swam the butter.

Nourishing Traditions has a huge write up in the front of the book about this very topic.

Laura

[jonvee]

No opposition here...natural is best.

The body wasn't made to handle all the fake stuff.

[annabella1]

I was raised on cheap margarine (sticks not the tub stuff) I hated the taste of butter- until I was 16 and my class went on a trip to London England. All they had was the best tasting freshest butter that I loved. I was afraid when I got back to the US I wouldn't like the taste of butter but I did and it is what I eat now never margarine. It's funny how tastes change.

[backlash]

This is easy.

Who do you trust?
Nature or some chemist.

I can believe it's not butter and I don't eat it.

[ldsparamedic]

sonshine,
laura was close, margarine is 1 molecule away from being diesel fuel. My dad is a chemist, and he decided to try and make margarine in his lab one day. It came out gray, but it was margarine. After that story, my family and I only eat real butter. I tell everyone that story and have lots of butter converts.

Sorry, I guess I was supposed to post only if I had an opposing view.

[zbery1]

No opposition here, margarine isn't fit for human consumption

[sonshine]

sonshine,
laura was close, margarine is 1 molecule away from being diesel fuel. My dad is a chemist, and he decided to try and make margarine in his lab one day. It came out gray, but it was margarine. After that story, my family and I only eat real butter. I tell everyone that story and have lots of butter converts.

Sorry, I guess I was supposed to post only if I had an opposing view.

Margarine is nasty stuff, but please a comment of either side.

Long term storage wise I keep powdered butter in #10 cans and I have a couple cases of the canned butter from Austrailia (sp) and I have a case of butter buds and my greatgrandmother's churn to use if I have whole milk.

Judy

[Anon001]

My doctor told me once, that if I use something to make it real butter.

[daffodil]

Ok. I'm the odd one. Butter is better for you but I eat margarine. Animal thing. I used to eat alot of butter. I prefer the soy butter. I found I actually like it better than regular butter but I eat the cheapest margarine I can find instead because of finances right now. You get used to it. And I'm darn healthy!

[Mom_of_Four]

We only eat butter here, too. We used margarine for years, but once I started cooking more from scratch and growing and canning so much of our own foods, it just made sense. A little research convinced me that it's just healthier. I buy organic butter on sale and freeze it. We don't have a cow so I'm stuck buying butter.

[nhlivefreeordie]

Is there another spread beside real lightly salted butter? I think not...

[nhlivefreeordie]

Did I mention that we LOVE the Atkins eating plan and research surrounding it?

me too, and wow does it work, if you adhere. I went from 265 to 148 in 10 months, and wasn't hungry..EVER!!