Lard is also good for you. Really.
I’ve gotten to the point where I ignore food studies. In my 60 years studies have found conclusive evidence that, say, eggs are bad, oops, eggs are good, bad, good, bad...I’m not sure where conclusive, settled science is today on eggs and I don’t care. But I know what goes good with eggs, bacon...oops, bacon bad, good, bad, good...
Happy to hear this.
My kid is 3.5, and will eat butter off a spoon if I let her.
I let her.
This is an article by a science denier. Dietary fat is settled science with no more discussion allowed. (/s)
shunning cheese? - Banish the thought....there is nothing closer to heaven than a nice room temp romano with a crust of bread and a glass of wine
I never fell for “butter is bad” for us crapola.
Who in the heck would want to consume margarine?
In the last week I’ve read articles that say butter isn’t really bad for us, there was no big bang and all those times I was told I was an idiot for not believing may have been a mistake, and the center of the earth is laying sideways.... typical week for science I guess.
It was really hard to believe that the “butter substitutes” could possibly be better for you.
So, I ignored them and continued eating butter. It sure tastes better!
If only I could get mine with Red Dye #2...
Butter, whole milk, eggs, salt. I eat them all and will continue to do so. They make a great, simple omelet.
Science’s refusal to acknowledge God and their attempts to recreate and regulate our food system and environment through artificial means has destroyed our planet.
When God says “It is good,” it is good.
Everything I like has been determined to be bad for me but, then they come out years later saying, “Oops! We were wrong!”
These ‘studies’ are paid for by grants, right? So, much like the global warming lies, these people’s income is tied to creating a firestorm so incredulous that no one dare question it, ruining farmers’ and other’s livelihoods and depriving Americans of simple joys in life.
Butter at Costco is under $9.00 for 4 lbs; that less than $2.25/lb, and the quality is excellent.
Here’s the paper:
http://openheart.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000196.full
for those who haven’t already figured it out from recent books like:
“Death by Food Pyramid” (Minger)
and
“The Big Fat Surprise” (Teicholz)
not to mention any number of low-carb, paleo or primal approaches to diet over the last decade that have had profound results.
re: This happens again and again.
This is not yet-another flip-flop. The official dietary advice has been off the rails since Ike. Low-fat, low-cholesterol, which became high carb (esp. grain carb), and endorsed fake “vegetable” fat has been an unmitigated disaster. Ancel Keys started the mess, McGovern enshrined it in the USDA, and nobody bothered to check actual results.
re: I’ve gotten to the point where I ignore food studies.
S.A.D. context. Investigator bias. Funding source pressure. Hopelessly confounding factors. Ignorance of huge considerations like gut biome. Yep, most nut papers are intellectual junk food.
From what I've read, I tend to believe that high cholesterol is a symptom of a problem, inflammation in the body, rather than the problem itself.
As such, I suspect the body manufacturing cholesterol for its own uses, including healing, accounts for the high cholesterol numbers more than dietary choices do.
From this point of view, things that treat high cholesterol would instead be treating a symptom of a problem rather than the actual problem, while their side effects cause problems, some worse than what they claim to treat.
I gave up skim milk and margarine and buy whole milk and butter instead. I also like to grind mineral rich rock salt instead of using processed table salt. All good and tasty.
Science has improved our lives, no doubt about it, but God put lots of good stuff we need in whole foods and I trust Him more than I do our modern, agenda driven science. Ymmv.
You can tell what’s “good” for you - costs about 3X more than it’s substitute.
Watch out for water. Every one who drinks will eventually die.
Seriously - I just try to stay with food that have as few added and ingredients and as little processing as possible. More work for me, but the food taste fresher and I can adjust the seasons to exactly what I want.
Or at least what Mr Kitty will eat. Me and the last kid at home love extra spicy, My Kitty doesn’t even like black pepper. And neither of them have the same fondness for curry that I have developed in the past few years. Seasoning can be a challenge. Thank goodness for got sauces.
New studies:
Butter isn’t so bad.
Lard isn’t so bad.
Salt isn’t so bad.
etc.
How many taxpayer $$$dollars were spent for the original studies that condemned those and many other items?
How many taxpayer $$$dollars were spent on the new studies?
Did the content of those products change or did the recipients of those $$$dollars-for-studies fudge the data to produce the desired results?
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Are cyclamates still evil?
Saccharine?
Now, one of the new evisl is fructose. For how long?