Nutritional breakdown of butter. The better fed that cows are, the healthier their butter should be. One tablespoon of butter contains 100 calories, 12 grams of fat, 7 grams of saturated fat, 0.5 grams of trans fat, 31 mg of cholesterol, 0 grams of carbohydrates, and 0 grams of sugar. Butter is made of simply pasteurized cream.
A multitude of genes you have inherited from your parents are involved with cholesterol metabolism. A defect, or mutation, in any of the genes that regulate cholesterol production, transport and utilization in your body can affect blood cholesterol.
The diet-heart hypothesis states that saturated fat and cholesterol in the diet raise cholesterol levels in the blood, and that high cholesterol levels in the blood cause heart disease. In this article I showed that saturated fat and cholesterol do not (for most people) raise cholesterol levels in the blood.eâve now established that eating cholesterol and saturated fat does not increase cholesterol levels in the blood for most people. In the next article, Iâll debunk the myth that high cholesterol in the blood is the cause of heart disease.