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Should You Avoid Butter For Better Health?

Perhaps the quickest way to make any dish even more delicious is to add some butter to it. Most people do this reluctantly, though, as if consuming butter is some sort of sin against our health. While people have been churning cream into butter in some form or another for thousands of years, it has only been in the last 50 years that butter was demonized for its “artery clogging” properties. Butter, along with eggs, cheese and red meat––we were told––were responsible for giving us heart disease. But does this information hold up to scrutiny?

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