Do you eat butter or margarine?

smit101 said:
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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I don't eat cornflakes due to my dislike of processed/junk food.;)
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I probably worded that a little wrong so i apologise, my point was that by consuming any excessive amount of a particular food type you increase the caloric intake regardless of how healthy it is, this will cause you to gain fat whatever happens unless A. as you say, have a diet in place that allows for the extra calories or B. exercise like a fiend.

You obviously have a balance in place but for 99% of joe blogs a slab of butter with every meal would cause them serious problems and im a great believer in butter.

In all honesty i did expect you to be chubbier :D
 
Olive oil based spread. Tastes far nicer the margarine or the similar spreads. I do like butter, but it s a very rare treat for me.
 
Kanifee said:
I probably worded that a little wrong so i apologise, my point was that by consuming any excessive amount of a particular food type you increase the caloric intake regardless of how healthy it is, this will cause you to gain fat whatever happens unless A. as you say, have a diet in place that allows for the extra calories or B. exercise like a fiend.

You obviously have a balance in place but for 99% of joe blogs a slab of butter with every meal would cause them serious problems and im a great believer in butter.

In all honesty i did expect you to be chubbier :D
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Honest, this response strongly reads as "I know I worded my original post wrong based on your reply".

The vast majority of people have absolutely no idea about that subject anyway, most people think that consumption of fatty food makes you fat because dietary fat becomes bodyfat straight away.
 
Im aware of the benefits of butter over margarine i simply stated it as a excess of fat as butter is mostly fat, good fat but fat and an excess like a said in my original post is bad regardless, unless you make allowances to cope for the extra intake, if i was way off the mark id have said thank you for setting me straight.
 
I don't eat processed foods (or at least I try and avoid them as much as possible). As such, I eat butter not margacrap. And fat is not the evil people think it is (as part of a healthy lifestyle of course! ;)).
 
Kanifee said:
Im aware of the benefits of butter over margarine i simply stated it as a excess of fat as butter is mostly fat, good fat but fat and an excess like a said in my original post is bad regardless, unless you make allowances to cope for the extra intake, if i was way off the mark id have said thank you for setting me straight.
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That applies to everything, so goes without saying.
 
Butter all the way. Cant stand any of those spreads that come in a tub. They all taste so bland.
 
'I can't believe it's not butter' actually tastes pretty good for margarine. It's the only marg I buy. I'll have butter now and again as it does taste nicer, it's just a pita to spread.
 
Don't really eat much of either tbh. Was brought up on margarine and didn't really like butter on my bread! Much prefer butter in baking though much better tasting and I do prefer to use something natural and less "margacrap" as someone else put..!
 
I used to have Marg (I think I had it in my head that it was less fattening), though I've realised I used so little of it that I may as well just have butter. I found I was throwing spread out as it was way over the date and I'd only used about 1/4 of a pack. When I am having that little of it just as well to have what tastes best.
 
jackocurly0074 said:
Don't really eat much of either tbh. Was brought up on margarine and didn't really like butter on my bread! Much prefer butter in baking though much better tasting and I do prefer to use something natural and less "margacrap" as someone else put..!
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You cannot bake with anything but butter! Margarine is just processed homogenised vegetable fat - it has no redeeming features!
 
Muban said:
I used to have Marg (I think I had it in my head that it was less fattening), though I've realised I used so little of it that I may as well just have butter. I found I was throwing spread out as it was way over the date and I'd only used about 1/4 of a pack. When I am having that little of it just as well to have what tastes best.
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Eating fat isn't fattening.
 
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