The Case for Eating Butter Just Got Stronger

[Northerner]

A new study found no link between eating butter and heart disease
It looks like butter may, in fact, be back. The creamy condiment is a “middle-of-the-road” food, nutritionally speaking—better than sugar, worse than olive oil—according to a new report, which adds to a growing body of research showing that the low-fat-diet trend was misguided. The new study analyzed nine papers that included more than 600,000 people and concluded that consuming butter is not linked to a higher risk for heart disease and might be slightly protective against type 2 diabetes. This goes against the longstanding advice to avoid butter because it contains saturated fat.

http://time.com/4386248/fat-butter-nutrition-health/

I went back to eating butter about two years after diagnosis, decided the taste was worth it! 🙂

 

[Robin]

I never stopped eating it. Both my parents ate it all their lives, and both lived to be 94.

 

[pottersusan]

Neither did I. 'Margarine'(for want of a better description) in its various forms is usually nasty.

 

[Annette]

I dont eat much of it, because its high fat content upsets my stomach (I dont digest fat well). But I am happy to feed it to my OH, which I wouldnt do if I was at all worried about it.

 

[Stitch147]

I use proper butter all the time.

 

[grovesy]

I do occasionally like a bit of butter, though I don't use butter or margarine for sandwiches or on scones, I cut them out over 40 years ago when I was dieting! Also cut out sugar in coffee and tea at the same time.

 

[Northerner]

NHS Choices analysis of the story:

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2016/06June/Pages/stop-demonising-butter-say-researchers.aspx

 

[Matt Cycle]

"Butter has been wrongly 'demonised' as unhealthy," reports the Daily Express following the publication of a study that found eating butter did not increase the risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes.

I don't normally have it anyway but even so it would have had no effect on causing my diabetes as T1 is an autoimmune condition not related to diet or lifestyle choices. 🙄 Incomplete and lazy reporting again.

 

[Martin Canty]

Always ate butter......

Looks like the establishment are slowly softening their stance on fats...... Man, the 7-countries study did a number on our nutrition....

Compared to, say margarine, butter is minimally processed instead of being cooked up in a vat, IMHO minimally processed is better all round!!!!

 

[Mark Parrott]

I heard that margarine was originally used for fattening up chickens and was never designed for human consumption.

 

[HOBIE]

I heard that margarine was originally used for fattening up chickens and was never designed for human consumption.

Some marg tastes like it would do you harm 😱