(25-01-11) You have been lied to about butter

by Paul Fassa, citizen journalist


(NaturalNews) Butter has been maligned as unhealthy for decades. Fortunately,
the Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) disagrees. The WAPF was started decades
ago by Weston Price, DDS. He and his wife traveled to isolated locations and
examined the diets of peoples free from civilization's degenerative diseases.

Others have discovered the truth about butter and disagree with butter`s bad
rap as well. It`s healthier for you than all the substitutes designed to
replace butter, which actually damage your health. Butter is better.

Why the Negative PR Campaign Succeeded

Diet fads promoted aspartame as well as margarine as healthy choices. The
overweight and even not so slim were manipulated into diets with only weight
loss in mind . That popular movement had its foundation in medical
misinformation, based mostly on saturated fat nonsense. That nonsense was
compounded by the cholesterol scare.

Abstaining from the saturated fats was promoted as a healthy choice. Butter,
coconut oil, and palm oil were all given bad press. The doctors, uneducated of
real nutritional health science, went right along. Yet all three of those
saturated fats are actually health promoting.

This trend was accelerated by corporate greed in the processed food industry.
They could righteously insert those cheaper trans fatty liquid oils in packaged
goods or sell them as healthy cooking oils. And now it turns out that those
oils cause long term health damage, including obesity, cardiovascular problems,
diabetes, and even cancer.

As early as the 1950s, Johanna Budwig criticized the trans fatty toxic oils
that were taking over the market place. She said the cooking oil industry
censured her for that. She is renowned in natural healing circles as the
creator of the cancer curing Budwig Diet, which includes pure flax seed oil and
cottage cheese, both high in fats.

But her biggest contribution to nutritional science was her groundbreaking
research categorizing different types of fats. This was uncharted territory
until she did that research in Germany. So she knew what she was talking about
when she trashed trans fats.

Why Butter is Better

There are three levels of butter: The ideal is butter made from the raw milk
grass fed, healthy cows. Second best and more accessible is organic butter from
the pasteurized milk of grass fed cows not injected with antibiotics or rBGH.
Then there is the mainstream commercial stuff. Even this last contaminated
version of butter is better for you than margarine .

The low fat diet is actually not healthy for most. And the heart disease hype
associated with cholesterol has been exaggerated to the point of being
considered a myth. A 1991 Medical Research Council study determined that men
eating butter had half the heart disease risk as men eating margarine! Natural
fats can be converted to carbohydrates as needed.

Cholesterol is necessary for healthy nerves, including the brain, and the
gastrointestinal tract. Butter from grass fed cows is actually rich in
minerals. It also contains a lot of vitamins A, D and K2, which help prevent
osteoporosis and arthritis. The short and medium chain fatty acids and
conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) in butter help prevent cancerous tumors.

Glycosphingolipids in butter fat offer protection against gastrointestinal
infections. These are not all of the healthy aspects of butter. You`ll find
more in the sources below.

The Folly of Fake Fats

Much of the overall worsening health from dietary sources includes trans fatty
acids in margarine and hydrolyzed heat processed unsaturated oils offered as
health substitutes over the past five or so decades. It comes back to real
versus synthetic foods. Keep it simple: Nature knows best.

Sources for more information include:

Why Butter is Better
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/a...

Weston A Price Foundation pdf - Butter is Better
http://www.westonaprice.org/images/...

Know Your Fats
http://westonaprice.org/know-your-f...

Sources for healthy dairy products
http://www.realmilk.com/where.html

News and information on raw milk and dairy products
http://www.realmilk.com/

The Truth About Saturated Fats
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/a...

Budwig research and cancer cure part 1
http://www.naturalnews.com/027452_c...

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