Posted on 03/08/2025 1:18:08 PM PST by nickcarraway
At this stage in my life, and who knows how,long I have, I will eat and drink everything I want to. I find more pleasure in those little things than being miserable in the gym and living on salad. I will die. I have made my peace with that. In the meantime, I plan to live and enjoy each day God gives me.
The problem is, the “big food” and “big oil” lobby runs or drives the studies, going back decades. Ancel Keys was an early proponent of seed oils and the “Lipid Hypothesis” demonizing animal fats, eggs, meat etc.
In hindsight it is also curious to say the least that when the first bout of high monetary inflation hit the USA and butter, dairy, and meat became unaffordable all the experts said the Food Pyramid was the healthy choice. Margarine was said to be healthier, Eggs and cholesterol were contributing to heart disease.
Precisely the opposite to what was notable with what I would consider to be unbiased studies. As always, we can’t trust our authorities any longer. It is a fact that heart disease was virtually unknown until seed oils replaced animal fats, largely a wartime expedient and again the result of monetary lunacy. Wars always destroy sound economics.
When you’re on your death-bed, you won’t be regretting the butter that you ate; you’ll be regretting the butter that you didn’t.
I doubt it. I haven’t bought margarine in over 40 years. Over the last several months, I’ve been using peanut oil for frying. We love fried foods. It’s twice the price of vegetable oil, and it stings every time I buy butter or oil, but both are healthier than the alternatives, IMHO.
This message brought to you by seed oil manufacturers.
I tried it myself, dropped seed oils in favor of butter and feel 20 years younger. Turned the food pyramid upside down. Went from a visit to the doctor every couple of months to a visit every few years.
Soy boys for the win!
White Guys For Kamala for the win!
BS.
I found that I can’t digest the hydrogenated stuff very well. Never could, but it really becomes apparent as we get older. Just tears up my gut and downstream. Inflammation is what they call it.
Wasn’t there a study not to
long ago about touting the use
of butter vs any seed oils?
PS...do olives not have seeds?
My grandparents lived well
into their 90’s. I doubt
margerine or olive oil ever
crossed their lips.
They made their own butter and
used it exclusively.
I also remember reading a study
claiming margerine was one
molecule shy of being a plastic.
These studies are like a tennis
match.
I’m going on 70. Blood tests are
A-ok, with anticipation for some
hot buttered biscuits w/my bacon
& eggs for breakfast.
https://www.westonaprice.org/oiling-of-america-in-new-york/#gsc.tab=0
It looks more like the large industrial food product manufacturers have “regulatory capture”, and drive the “science”. You get the studies you pay for, and they paid for “seed oils are healthy”.
This is total caca! Canola oil is terrible for you. We never use it. Olive oil and butter are our staples.
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