{"id":15960,"date":"2022-10-26T08:25:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T15:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.despertarmagia.com\/butter-or-margarine-which-is-better-for-your-health\/"},"modified":"2022-10-26T08:25:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T15:25:07","slug":"butter-or-margarine-which-is-better-for-your-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.despertarmagia.com\/butter-or-margarine-which-is-better-for-your-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Butter or margarine: which is better for your health?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cuerpo-nota\">\n<p>Butter and margarine are popular spreads that you can buy in supermarkets, but there is a clear difference between the two: one contains unsaturated fat while the other contains more saturated fat.  Does it matter?<\/p>\n<p>The British Nutrition Foundation explained the difference between saturated and unsaturated fats.  The former may \u00abhelp maintain healthy cholesterol levels\u00bb while the latter \u00abmay increase &#8216;bad&#8217; cholesterol.\u00bb  Too much \u00abbad\u00bb cholesterol in the blood can cause \u00abfatty material to build up on the walls of our blood vessels and cause them to narrow.\u00bb  This is a major health risk as it increases the risk of blood clots, which can lead to heart attack or stroke.<\/p>\n<h5>Related news<\/h5>\n<h2>How do unsaturated fats help cholesterol levels?<\/h2>\n<p>Foods high in unsaturated fats cause an increase in \u00abgood\u00bb cholesterol, which carries \u00abbad\u00bb cholesterol from the body to the liver.<\/p>\n<p>Once the \u00abbad\u00bb cholesterol is deposited in the liver, it can be broken down, preventing it from sticking to the walls of the arteries.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abAs part of a healthy, balanced diet, it&#8217;s best to choose foods that contain higher amounts of unsaturated fat and less saturated fat,\u00bb said the British Nutrition Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The Heart Foundation said: \u00abIt is better for our hearts to replace saturated fats with unsaturated fats.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abMaking the simple switch from butter to margarine spread is one way to do it.\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>This is because margarine contains less saturated fat than butter, and there are other healthier options as well.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00abConsider avocado, hummus, vegetable oils (such as olive or avocado oil), and nut or seed butters,\u00bb the Heart Foundation suggested.\n<\/p>\n<h2>Does this mean stop using butter altogether?<\/h2>\n<p>Not exactly, \u00abusing small amounts of butter from time to time shouldn&#8217;t be a problem for most people,\u00bb the Heart Foundation said.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Butter and margarine are popular spreads that you can buy in supermarkets, but there is a clear difference between the two: one contains unsaturated fat while the other contains more saturated fat. Does it matter? The British Nutrition Foundation explained the difference between saturated and unsaturated fats. The former may \u00abhelp maintain healthy cholesterol levels\u00bb while the latter \u00abmay increase &#8216;bad&#8217; cholesterol.\u00bb Too much \u00abbad\u00bb cholesterol in the blood can cause \u00abfatty material to build up on the walls of our blood vessels and cause them to narrow.\u00bb This is a major health risk as it increases the risk of\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":4}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despertarmagia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despertarmagia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despertarmagia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despertarmagia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despertarmagia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.despertarmagia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despertarmagia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despertarmagia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despertarmagia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}