Butter or Margarine?

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Posted 05 Feb 2016 at 12:11

Fair point - although I eat real butter, I force John to eat Pure :-)

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

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Posted 05 Feb 2016 at 18:59

No quite the result I was expecting on this forum but shows butter is way more popular. However, I would expect that cows milk, from which butter is most generally churned anyway, is not so quite so preferentially taken by we PCa guys as soya and other alternatives. Could this be because the quantity of butter taken is smaller and a calculated indulgence or perhaps the soya and other milk substitutes taste OK and pose less of a health risk than cows milk minimizing the overall risk of too much dairy? Then again there is cheese. Personally, I prefer to have a little cheese made from cows milk occasionally. The alternative non milk cheeses I don't like. And in the summer the occasional single cream to complement strawberries - have yet to find a better substitute.

Barry

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Posted 05 Feb 2016 at 19:38

I am caught out again ... I have fresh cream on my fruit salad but I put Alpro on his! John doesn't really have cheese or milk - Alpro on his breakfast and cheese is a distant (much missed) memory

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

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Posted 05 Feb 2016 at 20:24

Ermm
I don't trust anyone that doesn't like olives , and sadomasochism R US hahaa.
I can just see you spreading on your butter in the morning with a wry smile as poor John looks at his Pure , which may just as well be polymer based tbh :--))

If life gives you lemons , then make lemonade

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Posted 05 Feb 2016 at 22:28

Hi Barry,

Ok so I am not a man , laying that aside I also don't have PCa so I thought I would do a Trevor versus me comparison

Oh Dear I won't come out very good

Butter

Me - yes

Trevor -no always had alternative spreads, olive oil , healthy low fat uber good for you.

Fish

Me - no sorry I don't do fish

Trevor- yep any kind , head on , scales , eyes you name it he eats it. (It makes me feel sick)

.Cream

Me - Absolutely, I love it , how can you have a fancy desert with out cream

Trevor - Trevor hates cream he was not brought up with cream and Hates thetaste and texture even when it is whipped

Fat on meat.

Oh my goodness , pork chops, belly pork , fat on a lamb joint, I am there.

Me - yes , yes , yes , yes.

Trevor , never not in a million years , it would make him gag.

Fruit

Me , I know this sounds weird but when I am Holliday I love it, any kind of fruit , sadly I don't go on holiday that often.

Trevor - I every day at least 8/9 portions always has done.

So conclusion is I probably won't make the end of the week and Trevor will live forever, 😉

BFN

Julie X

NEVER LAUGH AT A LIVE DRAGON

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Posted 06 Feb 2016 at 00:10

Both brilliant responses x

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

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Posted 06 Feb 2016 at 10:56

When I first started on my regime of dietary changes almost a decade ago I weighed 15 stone and over the space of six months I lost a stone and I have stayed at 14 stone ever since.

The benefits of non-dairy, no red meats, reduction in sugar intake and increased amounts of oily fish, fresh fruit and veg, must have been a factor in this weight loss as I did not and have not increased my level of exercise or reduce portion sizes.

Not that I followed the Jane Plant diet explicitly I did follow her philosophy and it worked for me if my low Gleason is anything to go by with the weight loss being an added bonus.

Yes, it was hard to stick to the diet at first but reading the posts on these pages all those years ago from the guys who had gone down the same route and had persevered with the diet and had reaped the benefits of it, gave me the incentive to stick with it and I'm glad I did.

Edited by member 06 Feb 2016 at 11:14 | Reason: Not specified

Roger

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Posted 06 Feb 2016 at 10:59

Throughout my life I only used butter on toast and baked potatoes and never on sandwiches but now don't touch either, but if I were to have a preference it would be butter as it is mainly natural and not like margerine which another example of man interfering with our food for profit, the same as if I were to drink milk again it would be full cream and not the rubbish semi skimmed milk which is hydrogenated, due to supermarkets finding it was more appealing to the consumer as there were no fat showing in the bottles even though the fat is still there but the molicules are so small it's not visible, with the consequence of the fat being able to enter the blood stream easier and clogging up our arteries.

Sorry for being a killjoy.

I think I will get of my soapbox now, apart from posting this link.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarine

Roy

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Posted 06 Feb 2016 at 14:07

I haven't had marge or butter on toast for years, but still ended up here. Maybe the Marmite did it.

Tony

TURP then LRP in 2009/2010. Lots of leakage but PSA < 0.1 AMS-800 Artificial Sphincter activated 2015.

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