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Article: Nutrition's slippery slope Obscured in the margarine vs. butter debate is the fact that changing the source of fat may make little difference
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 1, 1994
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CopyrightCopyright 1994 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Butter or margarine? The more we learn about each, the more
slippery the facts become. Until recently, margarine was the
undisputed favorite in this nutritional matchup, because butter
contains so much saturated fat, the archenemy of coronary blood
vessels. Then studies showed that margarine is larded with
transfatty acids, which raise blood cholesterol. And then a Harvard
University report asserted that women who eat large amounts of
margarine stand a greater risk of developing heart disease than those
who don't. That pushed us back to butter, which dieticians say is
just where we don't want to be.
"People are really confused," says Alicia Moag-Stahlberg, a
registered dietician and ...
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