Posted on 08/12/2015 4:22:33 AM PDT by rickmichaels
People who eat lots of butter or cream are no more likely to have an early death than anyone else, a study suggests.
Researchers trawled through the health records of hundreds of thousands of patients and found no statistical link between eating saturated fat and falling ill with heart disease, strokes or type 2 diabetes.
The findings, published in the British Medical Journal, raise further doubts about 32-year-old guidelines that warn people to avoid butter, full-fat milk and other meat and dairy products with high levels of saturated fats.
Britons were advised in 1983 to cut their fat intake to 30 per cent of their total energy, and saturated fat intake to 10 per cent, while increasing the amount of carbohydrates they ate.
But the latest evidence suggests that saturated fats may not be bad for you after all.
Academics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, looked at 12 previous studies, involving between 90,000 and 340,000 patients in each study, and calculated the overall link between saturated fat and different health conditions.
They could see no link to coronary heart disease, cardiovascular disease, ischaemic stroke or type 2 diabetes.
There was also no link to overall death, but their data was not strong enough for the team to confidently rule out an increased risk of death from coronary heart disease.
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Butter is my fat of choice, over olive oil or any of those others.
Duh. When’s the last time you saw a skinny lady with a grocery cart full of low fat food? Processed food, soda, sugar. Those are the weight gain, heart issue culprits.
Mine too.
and we enjoyed our food a hell of a lot more
you make a great point
it is always the fatties who have the diet soda and low-fat crap
The original study that created the saturated fats scare has been found to have used flawed data.
Increased carbohydrate intake is the culprit, not the solution.
The advice back in 1983 that swept the nutritional world was the worst advice ever given to a population. My husband at the time was thrilled to be following all the pasta recipes from the Galloping Gourmet(he loved to cook). Me on the other hand was not thrilled with what was happening to my backside and a husband harping at me that I simply wasn’t getting enough exercise.
Losing the weight and keeping it off has been difficult at best and at times impossible. I still believe the carb-craze of the 1980’s also set people up to literally be addicted to carbohydrates. It is that carb ‘hit’ that millions of adults are addicted too and it is those lifestyles they are passing on to their kids unknowingly.
Not from what I see in the lines at the local GIANT
I’ve been ignoring this advice since Atkins, who if memory serves, was a medical establishment pariah.
Atkins will never be credited for his courageous stand. Who knows how many lives he saved
“Increased carbohydrate intake is the culprit, not the solution.”
People, I guess, didn’t bother to consider that once you give up the fatty food you will replace it with something else.
The “experts” in this case saw the same chemicals in fatty foods in the bloodstreams of people that were suffering, so they (wrongly) concluded it was the fatty food...where it is not, it is the carbs being processed that leads to bad chemicals. One has to wonder why the “experts” never bothered to try to figure out why a cow is loaded up with all these horrible chemicals after having spent a life eating virtually nothing but grass.
Everything naturally produced by nature was intended to keep us healthy.
If God wanted us sickly, cows would be giving diet coke instead of milk.
Now they’re singin my tune. “God is great, Beer is good, people are crazy”. Pass the butter please.
My Mother-in-Law is 86 years old and very thin. Her mother was from England and MIL grew up eating Yorkshire pudding (yum!!), lard, etc. She is still sharp as a tack, mentally, and never ever had any heart problems. Father-in-Law, who came from the same background, grew up eating the same stuff. He’s in his 80’s as well and also mentally quite sharp. He had to have a quadruple bypass several years ago. It sounds like it all boils down to genetics.
My neighbor who’s a Physician has been telling me this for years. He’s also vehemently against statins btw.
My parents totally bought into the low fat, high carb diet in the eighties. I was a skinny kid, but got a bit heavy in high school and college-even as an athlete. Diets are genetic. It was only a while after college that I started changing the way I ate. First I dropped artificial sweeteners-I had been drinking diet coke for over 10 years. I easily lost 15 pounds. Then I quit eating anything that said light or low fat on the label. Lost some more weight. After having kids I stopped using most processed foods and weight was no longer something I thought about.
Sadly, the past year has brought some difficulties into my family and, at this crazy time of transition I’m relying on processed foods again. I also started working at an Italian Restaurant. We are encouraged to try the food so we can better serve our customers. It’s great, but pasta at 9:30pm is a killer and I don’t want to eat it!!
This knowledge has been known for a long time though it fell out of favor with the rise of these sensational fad diets and junk science. My wife trained as an RN at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital (called Interfaith today) in N.Y. back in the late 60’s. At the time, N.Y. had the hardest state boards (testing) for nurses in the nation. Her instructor for nutrition told her way back then these exact same things. Your body needs fats, sugar isn’t good for you and the food pyramid is a joke. Research is important but so is common sense. Look how many farmers have eaten eggs, bacon, butter and whole milk across America for years. The rise of convenience and processed foods is probably responsible for a lot of harm to our health. We’ve always used butter, olive oil, coconut oil and whole milk.
If I followed the (pictured) Food Pyramid I would gain at least ten pounds in a week!
I'll pipe up here with a defense of skim milk. Milk is healthy but loaded with calories. Skim milk has about half the calories of whole milk and even more protein. (which is what I drink it for). Basic physiology still dictates that to maintain a lean physique, we must burn as much or more calories than we take in. Skim has all the nutritional content, more protein and half the calories - for someone who drinks a lot of milk (and doesn't mind skim) it makes a lot of sense.
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