Replacing butter with vegetable oils does not cut heart disease risk (2016)

blogspam of:

http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2016/april/did-butter-get...

(from April 2016)

ADDENDUM: It was also covered in The Atlantic at the time, for a more general audience:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/04/is-vegeta...

How about olive oil? The oils they name there already got a bad rap in the press here for not being very good for you. But olive oil persists.

Also; you have to wonder about these tests... Anecdotal, but too many times I see people take cola light, a light sugar substitute for their tea and veg oil based butter with their 3000 kcal burger & fries & chocolate sunday.

Also, the more I read up about it, I think stress is far more involved than food in a lot of cases. And if you feel you have a lot of stress (some people can handle tons and feel nothing, other get burn out with comparitively little, so it is personal) then I do not think food matters a lot: exercise probably does. Just looking at food is not enough there; weight, stress, genetic factors and exercise have to be equal for all individuals.

I thought no reputable vegetable oil brand uses trans fats anymore.

The article is focusing on polyunsaturated fat, linoleic oil.

Probably fine sticking with saturated fat coconut oil (and butter, lard, ghee, etc)

As far as I know, that shift has only occurred in the past decade or so, after the FDA started requiring trans fat to be listed on the Nutrition Facts label. It might be too soon to look for the effects of that change on long-term risks for cardiovascular disease.