Is Fake Better?

For centuries society has used the cream from milk to make butter. The butter was used for cooking and for flavoring on bread potatoes and multiple other uses. My family has always used butter, but recently a new substitute has come on to the market with claims to be better for your health. Millions of people flocked to the new margarine substitute to have the butter taste without the dietary guilt.

Margarine is made from veg table oils so it has no saturated fats unlike its butter counter part. Unfortunately it does contain a new found fat that is worse than saturated fats. Margarine contains trans-fats. these fats cause a rise in blood cholesterol and reduce good fat levels (LDL and HDL). For a more in depth look at the nutritional facts of margarine click on this link.

The trap most Americans fall into is they can not ration there eating. this is true for the butter case and many other foods. Our society is however raised to eat whatever they like based on taste. Well fats taste good, but we have to limit these if as a nation we want to become healthier as a whole.