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AppleMatt

Bertolli is the future

EycplUK

AppleMatt wrote: »

Bertolli is the future

Thats good ! we are moving there next week ! :rotfl: :rotfl:

nzmegs

Just eat real butter - better for you by far. The oils used to make margarine and other spreads are very harmful to your health. Do some research into this and you will be put off buying any of that stuff again. Plus it is disgusting....why eat something which has gone through a million processes to look like butter including colours and trans fats when you can buy pure butter made from cows milk...

puppypants

Isn't there something about margarines etc only being one process away from plastic.

I use nothing but butter.

kermitfrog

nzmegs wrote: »

...margarine and other spreads are very harmful to your health. Do some research into this and you will be put off buying any of that stuff again. Plus it is disgusting....why eat something which has gone through a million processes to look like butter including colours and trans fats...

...unlike butter which comes out of the udders of a totally different species. If we were meant to eat it we'd stick our babies onto cows udders as soon as they were born.

gregg1

nzmegs wrote: »

Just eat real butter - better for you by far. The oils used to make margarine and other spreads are very harmful to your health. Do some research into this and you will be put off buying any of that stuff again. Plus it is disgusting....why eat something which has gone through a million processes to look like butter including colours and trans fats when you can buy pure butter made from cows milk...

But doesn't butter contain unhealthy saturated fats?

JoeyG

gregg1 wrote: »

But doesn't butter contain unhealthy saturated fats?

Yes, but hydrogenation is not great for your arteries either.

Butter is rich in fat soluble vitamins

James_Lahey

I don't usually use (non-melted) butter myself but my daughter likes it, previously we've just used lurpack spreadable which is great tasting but hard to spread from the fridge. We recently bought "I can't believe it's not butter" light on offer from sainsbobs and it really does smell of cheap marg. Little one likes it but I doubt I'll buy it again and stick to lurpack and patience.

IMO too much butter may not be considered healthy (whist having some benefits) but the whole history of these faux spreads is dubious as we learn more about the chemistry involved. IIRC flora was marketed very successfully as being the healthy option until we discovered trans-fats(or some new ingredient that was now bad for our health.)

ALIBOBSY

Latest studies seem to suggest that butter and whole milk despite their fat content actually produce higher levels of the "good" cholesterol in the blood. Like eggs being full of chlosterol, but not increasing levels in the blood.

The whole fat is bad for you issue is the biggest lie put about by the food and drink industry and 70 years of science have failed to link heart desease to saturated fats despite most governments still peddling it.

The fact is fat is fat is fat and they all are high in calories so apart from youngsters who in many cases are now being under fed fats, we should just eat a balanced amount within our diet each day.

Most spreads have the same calorific value as butter anyway.
Some studies have also linked these type of spreads to higher levels of bowel desease and cancers.

Most scientists seem to be coming around to the fact that the big threat to hearts and health is sugar in all its proceessed forms, but the food and drink industry lobby spend millions world wide to bury this as sugar (and corn syrup) is cheap and sells. Evolution makes us eat more of sweeter things and the industry knows this. The WWH organisation were going to issue daily guidelines for sugar, but after lobbying by industry reps they backed down and just recommended "reductions".

For me I believe the one thing that seems to come out more and more is the less a product is processed or messed around with the better our bodies deal with it and the less damage it does to our health.

Bread and the "chorleywood" process are a case in point, faster mass production of bread has led to a more bland yet harder to digest loaf and higher than ever rates of wheat intolerences/digestive problems.

Ali x

ALIBOBSY

good site here
http://healthydietsandscience.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Butter%20and%20Heart%20Disease
With a link to a recent study. Google it though, there are many, many recent studies and there is soe evidence in fact that an obsession with low overall cholesterol levels is in fact causing more deaths.