Do you eat butter or margarine?

ManInRed

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Until recently I have always eaten margarine. Ever since I was born I guess.

Having read some articles it seems that butter is much better for your health. Why do so many people eat margarine??
 
Uneducated scaremongering and misinformation is why, butter tastes nicer, is natural and healthier.

Don't of course go the route of a member on here and have a block on the side of everything though, too much is still going to flood your body with fats it cant get rid of, too much of anything isn't healthy.

He has that much it wouldn't surprise me if he melted it and used it on his cornflakes :D
 
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Salted butter spread thickly on bread is absolutely delicious, even more so with a sprinkling of aromat. But i only eat butter as a rare treat, usually just have low fat olive oil type spread.
 
The old adage, "A little bit of what you fancy does you good" applies. I'm a margarine man myself. Not because I'm some paranoid Anti-butter man just because I prefer the taste. I find most butters just too rich and salty, but that just personal taste. If you're a butter man fair enough.

Getting off your fat backside and walking to the shop to get instead of jumping into the car would probably be enough to offset negative effects of either.
 
Didn't think we really had margarine in this country due to not being able to produce the percentage of certain ingredients that are used to call it margarine? Hence why everything is "Spread" this and "Kinda like butter" that.

I use either spread or butter.
Butter for frying some stuff and for toast. Spread for everything else.
 
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Proper butter for cooking, spreadable butter (Clover or Anchor depending on what's on offer) for everything else.

I can't be arsed waiting for proper butter to sufficiently soften to be spreadable without tearing bread apart.
 
Mixture leaning more towards an olive oil based spread it's an easy way of keeping saturated fat in take down and allows indulgence in other areas! The butter comes out more for cooking and the occasional treat.
 
Kanifee said:
Uneducated scaremongering and misinformation is why, butter tastes nicer, is natural and healthier.
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This.
I've been dabbling for the last few years, but November I drastically changed my diet and closest it resembles is primal, although I don't agree with coconut oil and trying to make low carb stuff with almond or coconut flour, kind of missing the point IMO if you do that.

I feel great, lost over a stone and it isn't even restrictive. It's taken a while to re-learn how to cook(ie find recipes that are just naturally low carb) but I'm getting there. At first it was like right, meat and roast veg or meat and salad. But once you start getting into it and re-reading good food magazine, I've found a huge number of recipes.
My legs just feel loser and walking long distance is so much easier, I'm sleeping better, I don't fall asleep nearly as much during the day. How much is down to diet and how much is down to weight lose I can't prove. But when I've lost weight on other diets, I've slept most of the day due to low energy.

Butter all the way. Less processed and messed about with food the better. Marg should just be avoided.
 
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I have recently banned all low-cal and 'light' things from my house due to having had a long chat with a chemical biologist recently, so am now on butter.
 
Kanifee said:
Don't of course go the route of a member on here and have a block on the side of everything though, too much is still going to flood your body with fats it cant get rid of, too much of anything isn't healthy.
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I suspect you're referring to me.:p

What do you mean by "fats the body can't get rid of"?:confused: You do realize that saturated fats are the bodies preferred choice of energy don't you? It is just as easy for the body to produce energy from dietry fat (especially saturated fat) as it is from carbs, or I should say it's just as easy/efficient once the body has adapted to primarily using fats for energy as in a ketogenic type diet, which I follow.

Sustained excess calorie intake causes storage of body fat not the consumption of dietry fat, body fat gain is more to do with calorie intake vs energy expenditure. My saturated fat intake is high but carb intake very low, so ratio of calorie intake vs energy expenditure is still well in balance, if there is a slight imbalance it's usually expenditure is higher than calorie intake, appetite tends to be lower on keto type diets, not sure why this is but I often under eat as a result.

Yeah I eat a lot of butter, at least 6 tbsp a day and the same amount of coconut oil + olive oil, cod liver oil + the fat on whichever meat/fish/poultry I have. It's great, keeps me lean & mean.


My waistline after years of very high saturated fat consumption
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Kanifee said:
He has that much it wouldn't surprise me if he melted it and used it on his cornflakes :D
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I don't eat cornflakes due to my dislike of processed/junk food.;)
 
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