Health Series: Health Issues in Margarine and Butter

But­ter or mar­garine is often used in mak­ing cakes. For some peo­ple, but­ter is often con­sid­ered the same as mar­garine. But, in fact they are dif­fer­ent. But­ter made from milk or cream fat milk, and mar­garine from veg­etable oil.

Because the fat comes from veg­etable — so do not con­tain cho­les­terol, mar­garine was con­sid­ered to be health­ier than but­ter. In terms of healthy fatty acids omega-3 and omega-6, mar­garine is Richer. But sci­en­tists have recently dis­cov­ered a new fact that the Solid­i­fi­ca­tion process of veg­etable oils into mar­garine, has changed the struc­ture of healthy fats into trans fats, which was not healthy.

So both but­ter and mar­garine together should be lim­ited, because the but­ter rich in sat­u­rated fats, while mar­garine con­tains trans fats. If sat­u­rated fat raises bad cho­les­terol LDL (low-density lipopro­tein), whereas trans fats can raise lev­els of bad LDL cho­les­terol and fats also reduce lev­els of good fats HDL (high-density lipopro­tein). If the bad fats increase LDL lev­els alone is dri­ving up the risk of stroke and heart attack, espe­cially if fol­lowed by a decline in HDL lev­els of healthy fats.

But­ter

In con­clu­sion, the threat of exces­sive con­sump­tion of mar­garine increased the risk of stroke and heart attack is greater than but­ter. Although it does not mean but­ter is more secure.