On Aug 6, 11:23*pm, sf wrote:
> Hubby went into the hospital on Monday and a stent was put in a major
> artery. *He's okay. *He caught it in time, so no heart attack or heart
> damage.

I had two of those installed to open up the arteries after a heart
attack and that was almost five years ago. As they said in the
Ottoman Empire, sofa so good.

> I asked specifically about this fake butter stuff. *She said she'd
> rather he didn't eat any of it, but if he felt had to then she
> preferred he ate *real* butter and only in tiny amounts every now and
> then. *Thank goodness more and more restaurants are putting olive oil
> on the table now.

Did they not say why they preferred he not eat any? Yeesh...usually,
it's because of trans fats. Butter contains a bit, but naturally
occuring, which is to be seriously distinguished from the vast amounts
passed off as lard for baking and being produced as a by-product of
hydrogenating vegetable oils. I use some butter in cooking (not all
the time) AND some margarine in sandwiches. Both my brother-in-law
and I have concluded that if our diets will consist only of tasteless
cardboard bread and rubbery fat-free cheese, life is not worth
living. I don't overdo it, balance most of my meals with salads, I
eat fruit and keep the meat down to a low roar (small portions two or
three times a week, which isn't hard...I don't actually ever crave
meat, unless it's pork) and although I have been slacking off on my
exercise because of a nasty viral throat infection, exercise normally
about three times a week for 15 minutes. It has gotten my stamina up
to the point where I can walk up four flights of stairs without being
winded and I am a heavy person. Once I'm retired, I'll exercise twice
as much to start then increase the time gradually in five minute
portions until I have it up to 30 minutes a day.

Not Butter...

In The Vicar of Dibley episode 'Animals', Alice expresses confusion
over the name: "You know that stuff they're selling now at the local
shop, 'I Can't Believe It's Not Butter'? Well, I can't believe it's
not butter. Then yesterday, I went to Crookenden and I bought this
other stuff, like a sort of home-brand, you know? And you know, I
can't believe it's not I Can't Believe It's Not Butter. Well, you know
I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? No no, I mean you know the stuff that
I can't believe is not butter is called I Can't Believe It's Not
Butter. Well I can't believe the stuff that is not I Can't Believe
It's Not Butter is not I Can't Believe It's Not Butter and I can't
believe that both I Can't Believe It's Not Butter and the stuff that I
can't believe is not I Can't Believe It's Not Butter are both, in
fact, not butter. And I believe they both might be butter, in a
cunning disguise. And in fact there's a lot more butter around than we
all thought there was."