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[welfaremom]

It's the first Monday of Health Month, and everyone who is going to participate has begun by now.

So, for anyone who isn't already clear on why organic/pasture-raised butter and red meat can be considered reasonable food choices during Health Month:
Saturated fat and heart disease: a hypothesis from the 1950s that's never been provedAlso, I won

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[meep]

I slather my bread with coconut oil. Man, that's some good stuff.

[liminal_space]

i love the whole grain stuff. it tastes better, has more fiber, and it's PRETTY BROWN COLORZ!

but white bread be the only choice for pb&j, yo.

[welfaremom]

I'm not saying people shouldn't love it, because I totally agree with you. It's when people talk like brown = health food that I start ranting inside. :P

[gamahucheur]

I'm sending that link on to my parents. Partly for its immediate significance, and partly because I more generally want them to better understand that orthodoxies amongst supposed scientists are so often not products of the scientific method.

[billetdoux]

I do think red meats are pretty harmless... when I made the original list, years ago, I ate a LOT of red meat and wanted to cut down. Butter, though... I dunno. Obvs. it's better than margarine, but... something in my intuition just says it's GOT to be bad for you. It just seems so obviously bad for you.

[welfaremom]

http://www.westonaprice.org/knowyourfats/skinny.html#butter

Maybe you feel that way because it's solid at room temperature and you think it must sit there that way in your body?

[billetdoux]

That's probably a part of it, yeah.

[welfaremom]

This is why I want a field trip to Switzerland...there are still traces of remote mountain villages whose traditional peoples lived in unbelievably good health on tons of butter, cream, cheese, milk, sprouted rye bread, and limited amounts of meat and greens. Obviously not all people around the world evolved to thrive on that amount of dairy, but yeah. Their traditional cultures were consuming other fatty, mineral/vitamin rich things, like fish eggs and organ meats.

What really concerns me is when kids aren't fed butter.

[kromelizard]

Doctors are very often shitty scientists. It's a practitioner profession more than a research one.