Pass the butter: The experts were all wrong

Globe and Mail ^ | April 19, 2016 | Margaret Wente

[fidelis]

I demand reparations for all the dry toast and bland baked potatoes I’ve had to eat the last 30 years!

[Coffee... Black... No Sugar]

!!! BUT THERE WAS CONSENSUS !!!

[mtrott]

We were skinny, as kids in the 1960’s, because our parents wanted us out of the house and riding bikes or playing games and sports all the time. In my neighborhood, we would play all day outside in the summer, and several hours after school on school days. It was hard to take in enough calories to sustain the activity level. As to obese kids, I only remember a few, while, today, it seems most are overweight.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

My dad liked to make popcorn in a heavy iron skillet with bacon grease as the cooking oil. Then, in the same pan, most of a stick of butter was melted and poured over several big bowls of popped corn.
He smoked a pack of Camels every day. Died at age 60.

[goodwithagun]

Fat doesn’t make us fat, carbs do. Don’t believe me? Check out Fed Gov’s food pyramid.

[certrtwngnut]

After what was probably many millions of tax payer subsidized research dollars they seem to have gotten it wrong. Who woulda thunk it. I guess the government answer is going to be to give more money to Uncle Jasper’s research so that he can maintain the lifestyle that he and his family have grown accustomed to.

[goodwithagun]

Try popping corn in coconut oil. Heaven!

[tet68]

So, how come 2% milk doesn’t cost 98% less than whole milk?

I gave up on that junk and switched to 1/2 and 1/2.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The bacon grease was more or less “free.” We had bacon and eggs three or more times a week.

[Starboard]

What’s so devastating about this story, as Mr. Leslie points out, is the answer it supplies to one simple question: Who made us fat? And no, it wasn’t the usual villains – big-food interests, the sugar lobby – although they certainly played a role. It was the scientific authorities and the governments that believed them.

The government likes to latch onto such "evidence" because of its potential for new spending programs, the expansion of their own empires, and newfound regulations to control others.

[Carriage Hill]

I’m still convinced that butter was best, and that the “healthy” margarine crap wasn’t fit to lube wheel bearings with.

[Snowybear]

I’ve known this by sheer common sense all my life. In general if God put it here it’s fine, anything is in moderation. I never ate margarine. I’ve always eaten eggs, as many as I wanted (since I raise chickens). Meat? Yes, please. People need to use common sense, what’s better the natural thing or something man created in a lab somewhere?

[Starboard]

That’s the modus operandi in DC: take from the taxpayers and give to the bureaucrats and technocrats.

[FatherofFive]

!!! BUT THERE WAS CONSENSUS !!!

And the "Science" was settled.

[gaijin]

But now we have drug-dealers, molesting illegals, and busy-bodies who call the cops for NOTHING.

[Gadsden1st]

Next scam to be exposed based on faulty, cherry picked data:

S T A T I N S !

I am waiting for proof statins are contributing to increased Dementia and Alzheimer’s.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Heck, just check out the grocery carts of those behemoth welfare queens with their passel of snot nosed, screaming brats: chips, sodas, cakes, sugary cereals, cookies and donuts with nary a fresh fruit or veggie in sight

[IamConservative]

I’m still convinced that butter was best, and that the “healthy” margarine crap wasn’t fit to lube wheel bearings with.

Margarine is one molecule away from being plastic. Butter much better way to go.

I think the whole low fat craze has been based on a misdiagnosis. In the 50's many, many more adults smoked. The heart disease caused by the nicotine clogging arteries was incorrectly blamed on their diet.

[yuleeyahoo]

Insects will not eat margarine, why should you?