09/29/2026
For butter to clog your arteries, it would have to grow a second double bond. Two-thirds of it is saturated fat, which has none to offer.
For butter to clog your arteries, it would have to carry linoleic acid. It brings about 2%.
For butter to clog your arteries, it would have to oxidise the particle carrying your cholesterol. That reaction needs polyunsaturated fat, the kind butter barely contains.
For butter to clog your arteries, it would have to bring sugar to glycate that particle. It brings none worth weighing.
For butter to clog your arteries, it would have to be what the pathologists find in the plaque. They find omega-6 from seed oil.
For butter to clog your arteries, it would have to be new. People churned it for thousands of years before heart disease became the leading cause of death.
For butter to clog your arteries, Americans would have had to eat more of it as heart disease climbed. They were eating less of it every decade.
Every rung needs butter to stop being butter.
Which is exactly what they built margarine to do.