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<blockquote data-quote="Geocacher" data-source="post: 369090" data-attributes="member: 32611"><p>People in general were a healthier lot when butter, dripping, and lard were all we had.</p><p></p><p>I remember my Mom in the states buying three pound tins of 'crisco' -- pure hydrogenated vegetable oil. Colour it and flavour it and you have margarine. Both were claimed to be so much healthier than saturated fats and butter. 40 years later they discover eating hydrogenated fat is just like putting plastic directly into you arteries and it has done far worse damage than lard and butter ever could.</p><p></p><p>Now the trend is everything advertising that it doesn't contain 'trans-fats' -- hydrogenated vegetable oil by another name. Even the infamous 'crisco' has been reformulated to exclude hydrogenated vegetable oil.</p><p></p><p>I now avoid hydrogenated fats whenever I can, difficult to do because so many foods contain it here, but I don't knowingly eat it anymore. I use butter or olive oil almost exclusively, and if I've got a bit of dripping, I'll use that without feeling too guilty.</p><p></p><p>I think it's right that the body needs fats, but natural fats that it can use as part of a sensible diet, not in excess.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Geocacher, post: 369090, member: 32611"] People in general were a healthier lot when butter, dripping, and lard were all we had. I remember my Mom in the states buying three pound tins of 'crisco' -- pure hydrogenated vegetable oil. Colour it and flavour it and you have margarine. Both were claimed to be so much healthier than saturated fats and butter. 40 years later they discover eating hydrogenated fat is just like putting plastic directly into you arteries and it has done far worse damage than lard and butter ever could. Now the trend is everything advertising that it doesn't contain 'trans-fats' -- hydrogenated vegetable oil by another name. Even the infamous 'crisco' has been reformulated to exclude hydrogenated vegetable oil. I now avoid hydrogenated fats whenever I can, difficult to do because so many foods contain it here, but I don't knowingly eat it anymore. I use butter or olive oil almost exclusively, and if I've got a bit of dripping, I'll use that without feeling too guilty. I think it's right that the body needs fats, but natural fats that it can use as part of a sensible diet, not in excess. [/QUOTE]
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