Why Butter is Better

electromg

My family stopped buying margarine when I was a kid, saying that it's even worse for you. Now I have a better idea. I had no idea there were transfats in margerine and spreads. I thought they were supposed to be "healthier". And whats up with it costing more? These are all interesting facts. I avoid butter, but its good to hear we can use it every once in awhile.

sexygenius

id go for real butter and real bacon anyday...margerine and turkey bacon can kiss my buttox LOL (turkey bacon is the same number of calories,tastes gross, and is heavily processed, it is not natural for turkey to look or taste remotely like bacon..thats just not right!!! people that dont eat pork at all..i support your eating of the turkey bacon, but not people that consume other pork products!) lol

brindle619

Theres a documentary out there call Fat Head. You can watch it on net flix. It covers this very subject in great detail and has some pretty funny parts too.. Its a GGGRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTT documentary.Check it out, I'll let you decide. As for me i chose saturated fats in moderation.

Grokette

If anyone has the opportunity to partake in Irish Gold butter (found at Trader Joe's) or my favorite in the world................Amish roll butter, you will be in heaven!!!

lovetowrite73

I had made a breakfast sandwich this morning and put a little vegetable spread (similar to Country Crock) on my bread. I then went to rinse the knife off that I used and that stuff DID NOT BUDGE from the knife until the water got really hot. I said to myself, "Why are you putting that in your body?" I use butter to bake with and I think I'm going to switch to it for everything. Will whipped butter have the same benefits? Do you know? Thanks for posting!

fteale

I totally agree. I'd far rather eat butter than manufactured rubbish. And margarine tastes like sh*te.

tmaksparkie

Just watched fat head documentary, very good points in that movie I recommend it.

amfmmama

Oh my goodness! I don't think that anybody is suggesting you take a bite out of a stick of butter in lieu of your daily vitamin! I think that a lot of people think that eating healthy means eliminating butter. I do not agree. I prefer butter over margarine because of taste and I am not sure exactly what margarine is! A little bit of butter on veggies makes me like them more and eat them more.

katschi

I eat one or two pats of butter daily with my vegetables.
If I fry eggs, I use 1 pat of butter ... delicious! (I eat the whole egg ... gasp!)
I also include flaxseed, avocado, evoo & coconut oil in my diet.
All in sensible, moderate amounts.
My cholesterol is perfect.

freerange

More of the same, how anyone can buy into the idea that something made in a lab is better for you than something made by nature is beyond me.

Grokette

More of the same, how anyone can buy into the idea that something made in a lab is better for you than something made by nature is beyond me.

Bcuz the FDA said it is safe and the American Heart Association endorses it because saturated fats are the devil........ :devil: :devil:

Grokette

I had made a breakfast sandwich this morning and put a little vegetable spread (similar to Country Crock) on my bread. I then went to rinse the knife off that I used and that stuff DID NOT BUDGE from the knife until the water got really hot. I said to myself, "Why are you putting that in your body?" I use butter to bake with and I think I'm going to switch to it for everything. Will whipped butter have the same benefits? Do you know? Thanks for posting!

No, whipped butter is just butter made from the cream that is whipped to make it lighter and easier to spread............

Imagine what that Country Crock is doing to your arteries.................... <<shudders to think about it>>

TonyTrinch

Switched to real butter years ago, unfortunately that didn't help my weight because I ate everything drenched in it. The butter wasn't the problem, my eating habits were the problem. The reason I made the switch was because I was a heifer eating everything drenched in that artificial "butter spread." Neither one of them helped me when I ate like that.

Why do I still eat butter instead of the fake stuff, even though now I'm trying to lose weight? Because when I made that switch several years ago I read an article about fake butter not being eaten by bugs, so I put a small plate of real butter and a small plate of the fake stuff outside for a week. Not only was the real stuff attracting all kinds of bugs, but was melting and had started to grow some mold. The fake stuff was still in the same exact shape I'd cut it in and there wasn't a bug in sight and not even a tiny speck of mold on it. The worse that happened to it, there was some beads of water that had formed as it started to separate from the warmth outside, but never fully did.

Regardless of anything I've ever read or ever WILL read, my experience taught me, that was NOT something I wanted in my body. No lobbyist for any side was on my back porch, just the natural elements and if natural elements can't break something down, why should I expect my body to?

As for the cholesterol issue, when my doc told me my cholesterol was to high, we examined my diet and HE told me to cut waaay down on the amount of butter I was consuming. Funny thing is...he didn't say cut it out or switch to fake stuff, he lectured me on healthy eating habits and portion control.

Being a good little binge eater, or course I never went back to him again, the nerve of him! (hehe) Now that I'm eating healthier I have gone back to his suggestions in addition to my own experiences. The awesome thing is, anyone can try that same experiment themselves. Put some tub "butter spread" outside for a week and see what happens to it. Then decide for yourself if you want that stuff in your body.

veganbecky

I appreciate the idea of eating whole, natural foods, but I disagree that butter is a natural food for humans. To take the milk of another species, which is intended for their young, and then churn it to separate out the fat from that milk, is quite unnatural. We are weaned from human milk at a very young age, so why would we need milk from cows in our own adulthood? And then to isolate the fat component of that milk, it just doesn't seem healthy to me.

Admittedly, my main objection to butter is an ethical one. I don't think it is right to separate a calf from its mother within hours or days of birth - as a mother myself it just breaks my heart to think of that happening. Calves need cow's milk, human infants need human milk, and human adults don't need any type of milk or milk product at all! We can get plenty of calcium and vitamin A from vegetables, healthy fats from nuts, seeds, olives, and avocados, vitamin D from the sun, and our bodies can manufacture all the cholesterol we need.

Megs654321

bunnywarrior

I'm lactose intolerant, so I can't have butter. But I just use olive oil. It's good stuff!

I'm a vegan, due partially to lactose intolerance, and I agree that olive oil is amazing. Isn't butter theoretically processed too? Dairy is supposed to be consumed by baby cows, not adult humans. The ability to digest dairy is a genetic mutation.

wildon883r

There are healthier options than butter. Promise Spread for example is what I've used for years instead of butter. It is more flavorful then butter and can be used in its place when recipe's list butter as an ingredient.

http://www.spreadsnutrition.org/pdf/FactSheet_Promise.pdf

suzycreamcheese

as much as i like the taste of butter better, and as much as i believe its more natural and would use it for my children, I dont think it has much place when im trying to reduce calories. Would i reather spread my bread with an extra 100 calories, or would i rather maybe 15 or 20 calories with some buttery tasting spread?
Id prefer the taste of the butter but not enough to warrant how fattening it is.

If i wasnt watching my weight, id be drinking full fat milk, full sugar everything and lots of buttery toast every day

freerange

I appreciate the idea of eating whole, natural foods, but I disagree that butter is a natural food for humans. To take the milk of another species, which is intended for their young, and then churn it to separate out the fat from that milk, is quite unnatural. We are weaned from human milk at a very young age, so why would we need milk from cows in our own adulthood? And then to isolate the fat component of that milk, it just doesn't seem healthy to me.

Admittedly, my main objection to butter is an ethical one. I don't think it is right to separate a calf from its mother within hours or days of birth - as a mother myself it just breaks my heart to think of that happening. Calves need cow's milk, human infants need human milk, and human adults don't need any type of milk or milk product at all! We can get plenty of calcium and vitamin A from vegetables, healthy fats from nuts, seeds, olives, and avocados, vitamin D from the sun, and our bodies can manufacture all the cholesterol we need.

Ahhh,,,,,,,, never mind.

Grokette

as much as i like the taste of butter better, and as much as i believe its more natural and would use it for my children, I dont think it has much place when im trying to reduce calories. Would i reather spread my bread with an extra 100 calories, or would i rather maybe 15 or 20 calories with some buttery tasting spread?
Id prefer the taste of the butter but not enough to warrant how fattening it is.

If i wasnt watching my weight, id be drinking full fat milk, full sugar everything and lots of buttery toast every day

Actually losing weight has little or nothing to do with the "number" of calories you are intaking, but the QUALITY of the food you are eating.

Full fat milk and butter from grass fed cows is not unhealthy. Did you know that it takes fat to burn fat? Fat is actually your friend.

The toast you are eating and the sugar are far more detrimental to your health in the long run than a bit of butter.

I will never touch that plastic stuff known as a "buttery spread" ever again.

Put some of that stuff outside and watch it remain the same day after day and never change shape or form. That is not REAL FOOD.

Grokette

There are healthier options than butter. Promise Spread for example is what I've used for years instead of butter. It is more flavorful then butter and can be used in its place when recipe's list butter as an ingredient.

http://www.spreadsnutrition.org/pdf/FactSheet_Promise.pdf

Sorry but with this ingredient list, Promise Spread is not the "healthy" item it is marketed to be........

INGREDIENTS:
Vegetable oil blended (liquid soybean oil, canola oil, sunflower oil, palm oil, palm kernel oil), water, whey (from milk), salt, vegetable mono- and diglycerides, soy lecithin, (potassium sorbate, calcium disodium EDTA) used to protein quality, vitamin E, citric acid, artificial flavor, vitamin A palmitate, beta carotene (for color), vitamin D3, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), cyanocobalamin (vitamin B12).



Butter ingredients are as follows: cream, salt.


I will pick the one with the REAL ingredients any day over something that is made from oils that are oxidized and help to cause oxidation in the body which causes inflammation and leads to heart disease. And it has to be fortified with vitamins to try and make it "healthy".............