Posted on 04/19/2016 6:39:12 AM PDT by rickmichaels
When I was a kid, the milkman came right to our back door. He brought us bright glass bottles of rich whole milk and thick sweet cream. We drank a lot of milk. Nobody had heard of skim. On weekends my dad cooked up breakfasts of eggs fried in butter, piles of bacon, delicious German sausages. For dinner, we had big chunks of fatty meat every night.
That was in the 1950s. Nobody was fat, except for one lone girl at school who everybody picked on. Most kids ate like horses and were skinny as rakes.
Then the experts came along and declared that all that fat was killing us. Whole milk was banished from children’s diets so that they would not develop clogged arteries and heart disease in later life. To keep our cholesterol in check, we began to ration eggs and treat butter like a toxic substance. We gave up our juicy, marbled steaks and switched to pasta. Ever since the 1960s, the authorities have told us that a healthy diet is a low-fat diet.
The results were not what they had hoped. Obesity rates soared, but heart disease did not subside. And now, a mountain of new evidence says the experts were all wrong. One Harvard study found that people who had consumed the most dairy fat were far less likely to develop heart disease. Researchers at Oxford University discovered that the biggest consumers of saturated fat in Europe – the French – also have the healthiest hearts.
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My ladyfriend and I left on vacation Thurs around 12. About a 6 hr drive. Didn’t eat lunch so we stopped about 3 and picked up a few snacks.
Me: Pork rinds and a bottle of water.
Her: Honey bun, double Almond Joy and a 20 oz coke.
She was finished with her “snack” in about an hr. I finished my snack on Sunday morning before going fishing.
She’s 44 y.o. and always complaining about her weight. And continues to make these type of food choices. It’s pretty insane actually.
I can’t stand those puffed pork rinds. The sure enough hard fried ones are great, but pretty bad on the teeth. Ask me how I know....Golden Flake makes some that are just right!
Seriously? I’ve been putting half and half in my coffee for 35 years. And back in the day I used it on cereal. Don’t really eat cereal anymore, but if I did I’d use half and half.
Just look out for the fat free half and half. Some packaging looks almost identical to the real thing. And how the hell can you make half and half without the fat? Fat is the whole frigg’n point.
!!! BUT THERE WAS CONSENSUS !!!
Deniers must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
They also replaced the naturally thick animal fat with corn starch to re-thicken the whatever fat free product it was. I used to buy "low fat" this and that, and could never lose weight. I went back to the full fat versions and dropped 40 pounds without even trying. Blood pressure cratered too.
I should sue the gubmint for making me suffer through skim milk and “I can’t believe it’s not butter” all those years- I’m scarred for life now!
Q: How can you tell when someone is vegan?
A: Oh, they’ll let you know.
I pop it in coconut oil, then add lots of butter and salt.
Best popcorn ever.
My mom and aunt never ate margarine. They bought it for their husband who were on low cholesterol diets, but never ate it themselves. They also grew up cooking with bacon grease, whole milk and cream. My mom’s cholesterol level at her last check was over 300 and my aunt’s was in that ballpark. Sadly they both died of heart disease. My mom was 93, her sister was 97. My dad and uncle on the other hand who followed the low cholesterol diet and had levels in the 180 range died at 59 and 73 respectively. Empirical yes, but when I stopped eating the low cholesterol diet, moved away from the high carb, low fat, pasta and grain based government pushed diet and went back to organic whole milk, grass fed butter and meats, no hormone eggs, fruits and fresh veggies, my LDL cholesterol levels dropped below 100, my HDL’s increased to over 60 and I lost 40 pounds in 8 months without an increase in daily activities. And though my weight loss has slowed it is still going down (49 total over 13 months). With all that my doctors still thinks I should be on a high powered statin because my overall cholesterol level is still slightly over 200. It’s not happening.
I fry my French toast in bacon grease. Then butter it before serving.
I fry my hotdogs for hotdog gravy, in bacon grease and use the fat for the gravy.
I add bacon grease + bits along with the bacon sausage fat to make my sausage gravy.
I buy whole milk, half and half and heavy whipping cream and use them in whatever I cook.
Fresh chicken eggs are amazing.
Fats are glorious and necessary.. enjoy them, enjoy eating, enjoy life.
Those studies are already out there, but like climate change studies, they highly censored. There are a few brave doctors who are backing off the high powered statins, but most still come out of med school with the Lipitor note pad and the Crestor pen in their pocket.
My doctor actually admitted he gets his info on statin therapy by talking to the drug reps. I sent him copies of numerous peer reviewed articles concerning statins and he thanked me and said he would discuss them with the rep the next time SHE (Yes most reps now are very attractive, well dressed young women. Big Parma know how to get a doctor’s attention)stopped by.
No one with a brain listens to “experts” about anything.
+1.
“one simple question: Who made us fat?”
That question sums up what is wrong with the U.S. (and most of the world) succinctly.
Nobody but ourselves “made us fat”. Eat more than you use in calories, and you get fat. It is that simple.
It is always popular and easy to blame something or someone else.
Ha!
I also put a couple of squirts of ‘Torani’ sugar free (Splenda) French Vanilla syrup in my coffee along with it.
I use 1/2 and 1/2 in coffee and tea
And it was a nickel and tasted better
Lol! My vegetarian husband got a deer last year for the kids and another for the nuns who live across the street from us. At one point, after butchering them but during processing them, we looked at each other and just started laughing. A vegan and a vegetarian up to our elbows (almost) in meat!
Milk has a butter fat of about 3.5%. 2% milk isn't 98% fat free. It means it has 2% butter fat instead of the 3.5%.
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