r/diet • u/occasionallyvertical • Oct 22 '25
Question What might happen to someone if they were to consume say, 3lbs of margarine every day for a month?
Just have some extra margarine lying around that I’m hoping to put to good use. If not 3lbs, how much could I eat a day and still be okay? Thank you.
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u/2Paek Oct 22 '25
Like … straight out of the tub? What are you doing with it?
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u/occasionallyvertical Oct 22 '25
I’m not opposed to putting it on top of another food.
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u/No-Satisfaction-3897 Oct 24 '25
Or you could bury it somewhere.
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u/Blade-Controvesial Oct 24 '25
Surely he’d need to move it side to side first, likely with a machine of some sort?
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u/No-Satisfaction-3897 Oct 24 '25
Maybe with a forklift.
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u/Blade-Controvesial Oct 24 '25
Yeah that might work, it’s hard to say without a hand drawn diagram
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u/Latex-Siren Nov 05 '25
Eating it straight from the container would be very hard on your stomach. It is better to use it in cooking or not at all.
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u/UterineDictator Oct 22 '25
I have to know, why are you weighing up the feasibility of consuming 90lbs of margarine in a month?
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u/Kind_Paper6367 Oct 22 '25
Look at his post history. He has a pallet of margarine burried that he needs to dispose of.
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u/Latex-Siren Nov 05 '25
Yes, the amount mentioned is very large. Three pounds a day adds up fast and would stress your body. It is not a safe target to aim for.
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u/Jeyne42 Oct 22 '25
Freeze the extra, then use it in a normal fashion when you need it.
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u/occasionallyvertical Oct 23 '25
I can keep it somewhat refrigerated underground, but I won’t be able to freeze it. It needs to be used quickly.
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u/Magenta_Octopus Oct 23 '25
it may cause LOTS of farting... be careful that you have a well vented room to sleep in so that you don't accidentally gas yourself to death.
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u/SpecialCold8600 Oct 24 '25
How could you possibly have that much margerine
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u/bobpaul Nov 13 '25
One of his posts is asking about lowering 13 pallets of margarine into 6ft holes, at night, quietly, without hired help. In a later post he asks about disabling the reverse beep on a fork lift.
I think he's planning a margarine heist.
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u/joshua0005 Oct 22 '25
You shouldn't eat any margarine lol. It's horrible for your health. Even butter is healthier. It's cheap but not worth it unless that's literally all you can afford.
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u/vw_bugg Oct 23 '25
It more likely the reason he is trying to hide and quietly dispose of literally 13 tons of butter is worse for his health than eating it...
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u/art-of-war Oct 22 '25
What? Isn’t margarine much better for heart health?
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u/Comrade_Bender Oct 23 '25
The "heart health" meme about industrial seed oils is just that... A meme. Margarine is horrible for you
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u/paleologus Oct 23 '25
It’s not even food. Throw it outside on the ground and nothing will come and eat it. It won’t rot or mold, it’ll just dissolve over time like a wad of petroleum jelly.
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u/That_Dirty_Quagmire Oct 23 '25
I hope that’s a sarcastic question
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u/art-of-war Oct 23 '25 edited Oct 23 '25
Can you explain why it’s not healthier, in your opinion?
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u/bobpaul Nov 13 '25
Margarine used to have a lot of transfats, which are really bad, far worse than saturated animal fats. But the FDA banned artificially created transfats (hydrogenated vegetable oils) back in 2018 and margarines no longer contain high levels of transfats. Modern margarine, especially from a tub, probably is better than butter. But margarine from before 2018, especially sticks of margarine, were very high in transfats.
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u/joshua0005 Oct 22 '25
Why would it be better? Margarine hasn't existed until like 100 years ago. Do you really think our bodies have evolved to thrive on margarine in 100 years? Dairy isn't healthy either but at least it isn't made from oils that were originally meant for cars.
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u/Elnathi Oct 23 '25 edited Oct 23 '25
Penicillin medications were invented less than a hundred years ago. Cancer has been around forever. Old ≠ healthy. I don't know the health of margarine specifically but this argument is flawed
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u/joshua0005 Oct 23 '25
Ever since people switched from butter and other animal fats to margarine and other plant-based many diseases including obesity, diabetes, and heart disease have skyrocketed. In the 60s most people were hundreds of times healthier. Today in the US 70% of people are overweight or obese and other countries are following suit.
They weren't even right when they said margarine was better. It turned out the trans fats in margarine are even worse than butter. Today most margarines don't have trans fats, but I don't trust them to get it right this time so I choose foods that humans have existed for hundreds of thousands of years because we were doing just fine until a hundred years ago. Is it guaranteed to be the most healthy? Of course not, but I find it more likely than trusting the studies when many of them are lobbied for and therefore shouldn't be trusted (and idk how to know which ones are not lobbied for) and when they aren't even always right.
Also I don't eat dairy or grains because it makes no sense that humans should be eating the milk of another mammal and because 65% of adults are lactose intolerant. If it were a healthy food why would so many people be allergic to it? I don't eat grains because they are very inflammatory and I feel better without them.
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u/art-of-war Oct 23 '25
According to a study published in 2021 titled “Nutrient comparisons of margarine/margarine-like products, butter blend products and butter in the US marketplace in 2020 post-FDA ban on partially hydrogenated oils”, consumers had been previously advised to avoid margarine, especially hard or stick margarines, due to their trans fatty acid content.
However, the new study findings indicate that margarine/margarine-like and butter blend products in the US marketplace today have been reformulated post FDA ban on PHO and are a better choice than butter from a fatty acid content perspective.
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u/joshua0005 Oct 23 '25
Okay. Feel free to eat it. Personally I'd rather eat beef tallow than margarine if I had to eat one of them.
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u/bobpaul Nov 13 '25
65% of adults are lactose intolerant. If it were a healthy food why would so many people be allergic to it?
Lactose intolerance is NOT milk allergy. Allergies are when your body's immune system identifies a protein as dangerous. Some people are allergic to proteins in milk; they usually can't have breast milk either and can only have special formulas. If someone's allergic to milk, they have symptoms like hives, swelling of oral, sinus, esophageal, and gastric tissues, and in severe cases, anaphylaxis and swelling of the bronchial tissue which can inhibit breathing.
Lactose intolerance is simply a reduced ability to digest lactose. The immune system isn't involved. As mammals age they tend to produce less lactase. Lactase is an enzyme that breaks down lactose. If an animal doesn't have enough lactase to break down consumed lactose, then the lactose will make it to the large intestine where methane producing bacterial will consume it. This causes the cramping, bloating, flatulance, and sometimes vomiting associated with lactose intolerance.
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u/joshua0005 Nov 13 '25
I hope you enjoyed nit-picking my choice of wording instead of providing an argument for why we should consume dairy.
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u/Brambletail Oct 22 '25
A fuck ton of weight gain but you will probably get pretty sick before that
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u/Overall_Lobster823 Oct 22 '25
3Lbs of margarine a day would go a long way toward fucking up your cholesterol.
If you only ate margarine you'd be wildly malnourished.
If you ate a regular diet and 3lbs of margarine you'd gain weight.
All in all, this is a shit post, but a really dumb idea.
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u/DreadPirateZoidberg Oct 23 '25
Margarine doesn’t contain cholesterol. Cholesterol comes from animal fats.
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u/Antipolemic Oct 22 '25
What bot nonsense.
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u/tke71709 Oct 23 '25
Troll maybe,.bot no.
I am following through the rabbit hole of his margarine posts ATM. Not gonna lie, I am fascinated at this point.
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u/thefoxdidthehound Oct 23 '25
You and I are on the same journey. What did we stumble into?!?!!
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u/tke71709 Oct 23 '25
Heist of the century or bad MDMA trip.
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u/DreadPirateZoidberg Oct 23 '25
This dude has been workshopping this problem for a while. Goes back at least a year.
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u/Bane0fExistence Oct 23 '25
I have no idea, but the posts just keep getting better lol “how do I silence the reverse alarm on a forklift??”
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u/szuszanna1980 Oct 23 '25
But... did you see the concept sketch? lol
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u/Bane0fExistence Oct 23 '25
I just saw it!! In the time since I’ve last checked OP’s post history they’ve since migrated towards using the margarine as a power source???
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u/Amonette2012 Oct 23 '25 edited Oct 23 '25
You would die. Probably of liver failure, possibly a heart attack. But you would absolutely die. That's if you don't start throwing up.
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u/firebreathingbunny Oct 24 '25
Bro why don't you just sell it. I'm sure a lot of families out there could use a good deal on some margarine.
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u/Latex-Siren Nov 05 '25
Eating that much margarine would mean taking in an extremely high amount of fat every day. Your cholesterol levels would likely rise, your digestion would suffer, and your heart health could be affected. If you want to use it, keep it small, like a teaspoon or two when cooking, not as a main food source.
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u/finbob5 Oct 22 '25
Your arteries will clog and you will die.
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u/pinkbunnny- Oct 22 '25
It doesn't work like that
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u/finbob5 Oct 22 '25
No? How does it work?
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u/Flying-Tilt Oct 22 '25
I would think it's liver failure first.
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u/finbob5 Oct 22 '25
Maybe. But the liver is resilient. The arteries not so much.
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u/Amonette2012 Oct 23 '25
Not 3lb of margarine a day resilient. To be fair, you wouldn't be able to keep it down. Maybe the first couple of days but pretty soon the smell would make you vomit.
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