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"The subjects were broken into two groups. One was given a diet in which liquid corn oil was used in place of usual hospital cooking fats (including butter and
by surfmike 10y ago
"The subjects were broken into two groups. One was given a diet in which liquid corn oil was used in place of usual hospital cooking fats (including butter and hydrogenated oils) during meal preparation. The other group received meals cooked with common margarines and shortening. "
Where is butter in this study?Am I missing something?
- burkaman 10y agoButter is a type of shortening, but I don't know why it's phrased like that. The actual study mentions butter: http://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i1246 http://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i1246
- surfmike 10y agoOk thanks. The way it's worded it still sounds like the group was a butter/margarine mix, so not a clean comparison.
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- emptybits 10y agoI'm not sure the study had much to do with butter. It mentions butter just once but leaves it very unclear how much butter was actually involved (versus "shortening"). The study talks extensively about "shortening" which is primarily a vegetable-based product now AFAIK. FWIW, the Wikipedia article tells us "the term "shortening" seldom refers to butter, but is more closely related to margarine."
- burkaman 10y agoYeah it's very confusing. Maybe these words meant something different in 1968.