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Butter vs. Margarine
Q: I am trying to lose weight but worry about the chemicals in light margarines. Is it better to eat real butter, or these fake substitutes?
A: I will always advocate for people to use natural foods over chemically processed ones.
If you are trying to lose weight (and not lower your lipid profile), real butter can absolutely be included in an overall diet plan that helps you lose or maintain a goal weight.
Weight loss is about calories in and calories out. If you want to lose, you need to burn more than you consume. Start by making an honest calculation of how many calories you take in each day (keep a food diary) and an estimate of how much you burn. If you don’t know your starting point, you will never get where you want to go.
Learn more:
Know your fats
Get rid of margarine for a healthier diet
Dr. Brent Ridge is the health expert for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. You can call and ask him a question live every Tuesday at 2 p.m. Eastern on Sirius Satellite Radio, Channel 112 (1.866.675.6675). You can also follow along as he learns to grow his own food and raise goats on his farm in upstate New York by visiting www.beekman1802.com.
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Why not use organic butter? Science has found pesticides and hormones in butters from around the globe. The amount of toxins are much lower in organic butter, so if you are consuming butter to avoid the chemicals in margarine, you might as well take the next step and choose organic butter.
Although it costs twice as much, just think of the difference as supporting sustainable agriculture and small farmers.
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Butter is a healthy fat, it's also cholesterol though. Cows are not kept pregnant to produce milk so forget that. Butter is the best health wise as long as cholesterol isn't a problem. Try Ghee a clarified butter if cholesterol is an issue.
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As long as a mammel is nursed they will produce milk. This is also true with women,whether they are pregnant or not. Note, the wet nurses. Margerine is one molecule away from being a plastic. No flies will land on it,nothing will grow on it. I'll take the butter.
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Margarine was NOT invented as a food supplement for turkeys (see SNOPES.com), but as a low cost substitute for butter. If all you are interested in is weight loss, neither is "good" for you. If you are worried about eating heart healthy, no trans fat margarines are better, or, as Dr. Weil says, learn to eat your bread without!
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margarine was invented as a food supplement to get turkey's fatter. also as a natural food. a friend of mine left butter and margarine at their lake cabin one year, the butter went moldy and the margarine turned into a rubbery plastic. which do you want in your body?
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Using butter instead of margerine means that cows are kept pregmant om order to produce cream that can then be turned into butter. Don't eat butter and help save an innocent cow from misery.
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