Butter or Margarine?

Butter

1. Butter & Margarine have the same amount of calories.
2. Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams.
3. Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.
4. Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.
5. Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few only because they are added!
6. For most people, butter tastes better than margarine and it can enhance the flavours of other foods. (The best flavour claim margarine can make in ads is that it tastes the same as butter.)
7. Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years. "

Margarine...

• Very high in trans fatty acids.
• Triple risk of coronary heart disease.
• Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol)
• Lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol).
• Increases the risk of cancers by up to five fold.
• Lowers quality of breast milk.
• Decreases immune response.
• Decreases insulin response.

No contest!
Use butter - this was not sponsored by the dairy industry.