butter vs. margarine

That’s like asking which is better: fries or onion rings, bacon or sausage, Bonnie or Clyde? Neither, they’re both bad. Butter and margarine both have aging effects—by increasing the risk of heart disease, stroke, memory loss, wrinkling of your skin, and a decrease in orgasm quality (a buttered bagel isn’t worth that now, ay?). If you put guns to our heads and force an answer, we’d pick butter, since saturated fat is less harmful than trans fat. But you can enjoy the taste of fat by using healthy oils, which decrease the risk of all those things and taste good, if not better. If you avoid butter and margarine for eight weeks (fat is a learned taste not a genetic one) you can make you heart’s arteries and your skin younger with healthy fat (butter ages those). For healthy fat try peanut butter, walnut butter, almond butter, avocado, olive oil, canola oil, and tree and seed oils like sesame oils.