Margarine or butter?

Question

I like butter myself. I never fry it either.

Might want to check out selenium as well.

Answer 1

Butter is just better

Answer 2

You are actually better off with butter than stick margarine. The stuff in a tub is different, but stick margarines are artificially saturated fats (so they are solid) and may even have trans fats (I have never used margarine so I am not sure). Butter is at least a natural product even if it is full of fat.

Answer 3

you've got to be kidding. 30 years ago Adel Davis pointed out that margerine caused us to manufacture mutant essential acids now called LDL.
In world war II 2 of Denmark's 4 margarine factories were bombed out. An "advanced" society, everyone there was eating margarine. They noticed 4 years later when they rebuilt the factories that heart attacks had halved while production was halved and returned to normal when the factories were rebuilt.
Autopsies in WW I never even mentioned arterial plaque. In WW II, it was noted in grown men. The Boomers had it by their teens, and the average 4 year old has it now.
Time magazine (Dean Ornish) reported that aterielschlerosis is reversible by the early 90's, and saturated fats are now listed on processed foods so we can avoid them.
By taking an oil and using a catalyst like nickel we can force extra hydrogen atoms into the oil molecules, making them solid at room temperature and giving them a long shelf life. Unfortunately they are not only no longer nutritous, but poisonous. This product is called margarine.
New York Ciry is planning to ban them (now called trans fats) from restaurants this year and it will be an epic battle. Margarine was marketed to us to our disadvantage for profit, just as the sugar/corn syrup lobbiests are sucessfully keeping stevia from being defined as a sweetener, although 40% of Japanese prefer it over sugar since it doesn't affect blood sugar.
The only early objections I know of to the poison called margarine is a jump rope rhyme of my Irish grandmother in the early 1900's:
It tisn't because your dirty
It tisn't because your clean
Tis only because my mother says
You eat Mar gar een!

Enjoy butter in moderation. It's saturated, but naturally, so it's a little less bad for you than margarine. The brilliant Mediterranean solution is to mix virgin olive oil and butter, half and half, to make a health, tasty, ready to spread butter.
Good luck

Answer 4

butter it is natural (Have you ever seen the colour of margarine before they put food colouring in it??? Its gross)

Anything in moderation/the appropriate quantities is ok for you. So don't go layering it on thick, if you like it thick, cut down slowly because alot of it will eventually be bad for you (but that is the case with anything really)

I'd go butter unless your doctor specifically says otherwise because they will know your condition and needs best.

Answer 5

Believe it or not, butter is the healthier choise for your body. Margarine has fats in it that are harder to digest. The human body is not set up to cope with these fats. I got my information from the doctor that Oprah has on her show all the time. Leslie

Answer 6

butter. i'm trying to get away from synthetic foods. margarine was the first on my list of things to ban from my fridge. besides, butter is yummy and the whipped kind has half the calories.

Answer 7

Butter!

Unless something I'm cooking needs to be sauteed at high heat, then margarine.

And sticks only, the whipped stuff of either sort is full of water.

Answer 8

with all the additives in margarine it is said that a pat of butter is better for you then a pat of margarine ====go figure eh

Answer 9

Butter for sure! Tastes better and has no hydrogenated trans fats. Just use it in moderation.

Answer 10

Neither honey or maple syrup toping, and don't eat items that need to be fried in butter.