Dr. Mike’s Healthy Lifestyle Advice: Butter or Margarine – Which is Better?
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Which is healthier; butter or margarine? Who comes out on top in terms of fat content (transfats and saturated fats), as well as in their calorie capacity? Should we spread that stuff on our sandwiches and/or bake with it? Let’s look at some facts…
Both contain plenty of calories. Regular butter contains a whopping 1628 calories per serving (one serving size is 1 cup or 227 grams) of which 1618 calories come from fat. Margarine contains a similar amount of calories. If you are concerned about your weight or if you want to maintain your optimal weight, omit your butter or margarine.
Next, butter is much higher in saturated fats than margarine (8 to 5 ratio) and just 1 cup of regular butter will get you 583% of the daily recommended intake. Of the 227 grams (1 serving size), 184 grams are fat of which 117 grams is saturated fat…WOW! So the bad thing about butter is that it’s almost nothing but saturated fat. Diets high in saturated fat have been correlated to atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease, elevated cholesterol levels (which is not really relevant), and cancers such as breast cancer, prostate cancer and cancer of the small intestine. Regular butter is also high in sodium which may increase blood pressure.
Regular butter does contain some vitamin A among some other nutrients (small amounts of vitamin K, D, E) and many people still assume butter has many nutritional benefits because butter is made of milk. After all, butter is just a very concentrated form of fluid milk. We already established that milk is nothing more than a poison. Read my article: Milk myths put to rest, or visit notmilk.com.
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But margarine is even worse…
Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When margarine actually killed the turkeys, the people who invested into this research now had to figure out what to do with this product to get a return on their investment and prevent a huge loss. Since this white substance had no food appeal at all, they decided to add some yellow coloring and some new flavorings into the mix and promote margarine as a substitute for butter. Clever for sure!
Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% compared to eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study. It’s the very high trans-fatty acid content that triples the risk of coronary heart disease. Margarine consumption also increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the ‘bad’ cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the ‘good’ cholesterol)…but again, I personally don’t think that matters at all! What does matter is that margarine increases the risk of cancers up to five times, has shown to lower the quality of breast milk, decreases immune response, and decreases insulin response.
And here’s WHY: it’s even more unnatural than butter. Did you know that margarine is just ONE MOLECULE apart from being a PLASTIC, and that margarine shares 27 ingredients with PAINT?
This is because margarine is hydrogenated, which means that hydrogen is added. Hydrogen changes the molecular structure of the substance it’s added to. The body can’t recognize foreign, un-natural substances and can’t metabolize them easily, resulting in cellular mutation which explains the cancers. These facts alone were enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated.
Don’t believe me? Why don’t you try the following experiment for yourself (and involve your kids while explaining the facts above). Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it open in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will notice a couple of things:
(1) Unlike with any other ‘real’ food there will be no flies. Not even those pesky fruit flies will go near your margarine (that should tell you something).
(2) The margarine will not rot, or smell differently because it has no nutritional value. Nothing will even grow on it. Even microorganisms and bacteria will not find a home to grow. Why? Margarine is pretty much a plastic. So, would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast? I guess not! Share this experiment with your loved-ones and friends if you want to ‘butter them up’…
Conclusion:
Please choose butter over margarine, and really limit your butter consumption…if possible just eliminate this bunch of saturated fat derived from poisonous milk!
There are no real healthy substitutions for butter and they don’t taste as good either; and most of them contain hydrogenated oils anyway. Some healthier choices are virgin olive oil (which you can also use to substitute your baking butter with), organic jam or some raw honey.
Yours in Optimal Health,
Dr. Mike.
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