Vegetable oils are lower in saturated fat, but still add fat calories.
Go easy on candy, desserts, and other sweets. Avoid a top-heavy pyramid by reducing the number of your daily calories that come from this group. Butter and margarine have about the same amount of fat. A tablespoon of butter or margarine has about 100 calories and 12 grams of fat. BUT, butter has 7.5 grams of saturated fat as compared with less than two grams of saturated fat in corn oil margarine.