Why Butter is Better

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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.