“Butter and olive oil may not be perfect, but they are all I use.”
About 15 years ago my RN wife attended a common sense CME course re what to eat and what not eat.
Then, she asked their private practice patients, who were 80+ and still in good health what they cooked with. They replied butter, olive oil and wine for the food and the cook.
She, then, threw away anything that was not real like oleo and all of the various so called cooking oils.
Next, she got rid of any processed food in a box and most carbs.
It seems to have worked. She is now 81, and I will be 83 next month. I have outlived all of my male ancestors by 6+
years.
She has about 6 more years before she can make that claim. Many of her female ancestors made it to their late 80’s.
Industrialization was great for making widgets but a disaster for food and medicine.
Highly processed food is slow poison. Most of it is just simple carbs, something our body has never had in great abundance and doesn’t deal with very well.