Article: OLD QUESTION BACK: BUTTER OR MARGARINE?(Spotlight on Food)(Column)

Byline: Marty Meitus Rocky Mountain News Food Editor

When you sit down at the Thanksgiving table, should you reach for the butter or the margarine? If you read about the most recent research study on trans fatty acid, you could decide it's not nice to fool Mother Nature and reach for the butter.

The study, published last week in The New England Journal of Medicine, followed 80,082 female nurses, examining their dietary habits over 14 years. The study indicated that trans fatty acids, which are created in the process of making vegetable oils solid at room temperature (margarine, Crisco-type oils), may be more detrimental to the heart than butter. (Butter ...

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