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Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death, and for the past 60 years, saturated fat and cholesterol have been wrongfully vilified as the culprits and right at the top of the list was butter as a food to avoid. If you are like me and enjoy some butter on a baked potato, toast, or corn cob, you were made to feel guilty for eating something so fattening. The media and the relentless advertising on TV tells us that margarine is much better for us, and butter is the enemy as it will make you fat and kill you! What you will find is that butter is actually a very healthy food for us to eat and it contains some rich sources of vitamins essential to function of many of our vital organs for prevention of disease. In this article I will try to shed light on many interesting things about butter that you never knew and allow you to enjoy eating this again without the guilt it is doing you harm.

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