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To: tejek who wrote (722777)	6/25/2013 11:34:22 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579704

>> Right. And there are no calories in chocolate. There are lots of calories in both. But it would be stupid to say, "Oh, I'm not ever going to eat chocolate again because it has lot of calories." Rational people can choose where they want to "spend" their daily calorie allotment. We don't all need to get by on 1,000 calories a day. Butter is one of the most ubiquitous ingredients in food today. And like most foods, it is harmless in moderation. The "butter is bad for you" argument is an excellent example of why we shouldn't use "consensus science" as you guys are trying to do with Global Warming. For years, decades, the consensus view was that we should eat margarine instead of butter because butter would kill you. Now, decades later, that has been shown to have been false. Butter is high in saturated fats, bad consensus science caused almost everyone to believe that butter was harmful. In fact, butter for a time was almost unavailable. The government got involved, actually going so far as to REQUIRE butter to be sold without food coloring in it so people could tell the difference. Idiot regulators had restaurants cutting butter pats differently than margarine (margarine diagonally, butter into rectangles) so no poor idiot would consume the wrong one by accident. And then, it turns out butter is actually better for you than margarine, and has several important health benefits associated with it. It doesn't cause heart disease (tell your buddies at Huffpo and Daily KOS) and butter LOWERS heart risk compared to margarine.