Butter is good!
Popular opinion and basic level nutritional guides would have us believe that saturated fats are bad.
Does saturated fat make us fat?
A quick look back in time reveals that somthing may have been misinterpreted along the way. To begin with the primary energy source of our ancestors many years ago was saturated fat. As much as 80% of the eskimos diet and other tribes consisted of saturated fat. If saturated fat was that bad for us back then, why are we still here today?
If saturated fat was responsible for our health problems then you would naturally see an incline in the consumption of saturated fats over the years. But the opposite is true, traditional animal fats and butter consumption has drastically been reduced while heart disease and obesity levels have rapidly increased. It is interesting to note that while saturated fat levels have decreased, dietary vegetable oils in the form of margarine have increased by 400% and the consumption of sugar and processed foods has increased by 60%.
It is not saturated fats that we should fear but rather sugar, refined oils and processed foods. In fact we see huge fat loss results from our clients without reducing saturated fat levels at all and in some cases saturated fat levels are increased.
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I frequently tell my clients, when they ask me about which spreads to use, that they are far better to go for the more natural option (butter) in smaller quantities, than the processed alternatives(margarine). If you’re looking at what you’re putting in to your body then portion size and naturally grown or made products, are they way to go. Our bodies need fat to function.