In article >,
Mark Thorson > wrote:


> Only as compared to traditional margarine. There
> are new margarines that purport to be much better
> than butter because of the elimination of trans fats
> that the old margarines had. By using polyunsaturated
> vegetable oils, they are much less health-damaging
> than butter.
>
> There are no health benefits to eating butter as
> compared to not eating butter. People eat butter
> for the same reason people drink alcohol or use
> cocaine: it feels good.
>
> If I want to feel good, I'll feel a lot better
> eating the bacon that has the same amount of
> saturated fat as a pat of butter.

Lard has considerably less saturated fat than butter fat, actually:

http://www.nutristrategy.com/fatsoils.htm

and butter has some transfat in it naturally, whereas pork doesn't.

But I like my butter.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA