Bring on the butter

[xsubsailor]

Now this is some health related research that I really want to believe. Love my butter and whole milk   

A diet rich in dairy fat may be linked to a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, researchers say.

https://www.foxnews.com/health/diet-rich-in-dairy-lower-risk-of-heart-disease-report

[papa61]

WHAT?! that's opposite of what they told my dad. docs can't figure this out after decades of study.

 

[Chucktshoes]

Quit eating margarine, y’all. That stuff is terrible for you. 

[xsubsailor]

 While I was in the Navy all we ever got was butter, no margarine. My wife tried for years to wean me off of it to no avail. She also tried to feed me that watered down crap called skim or 2% milk. No luck there either.  

[10-Ring]

I'll take butter over margarine and sugar over artificial sweeteners.  Key is moderation, which I struggle with. 

[FUJIMO]

Local dairy for this house. Whole,full fat, cream top gallon a week

Highest butter fat content butter available

Highest grade cheese

Brown eggs from the neighbor

Only bread is what I bake myself

All in moderation of course

I'm still gonna die but hopefully a little slower than the drive thru crowd

 

[Grunt67]

Eat butter, don't.  Eat bacon, don't.  Eat eggs, don't.  This stuff changes with study grants.

 

 

 

[gregintenn]

25 minutes ago, Grunt67 said:

Eat butter, don't.  Eat bacon, don't.  Eat eggs, don't.  This stuff changes with study grants.

 

 

 

Bit they’ve got this ‘Rona thing all figured out.

[Quavodus]

5 hours ago, gregintenn said:

Bit they’ve got this ‘Rona thing all figured out.

Yeah, just ask them.

[Jeb48]

We stopped eating margarine years ago when a friend did an experiment to prove to his wife that margarine wasn't good for you. He left a big gob of margarine on a piece of cardboard in his barn and after a couple of weeks it was still there and no signs anything touched it, not even bugs. Even mice knew it was poison. That doesn't prove butter is good for you just margarine isn't.

[Johnny Rotten]

[gregintenn]

11 hours ago, Jeb48 said:

We stopped eating margarine years ago when a friend did an experiment to prove to his wife that margarine wasn't good for you. He left a big gob of margarine on a piece of cardboard in his barn and after a couple of weeks it was still there and no signs anything touched it, not even bugs. Even mice knew it was poison. That doesn't prove butter is good for you just margarine isn't.

I’ve read that margarine was invented as an economical way to fatten turkeys on a commercial farm. It was killing the turkeys, so they abandoned the project. Now we eat it. No idea if there is any truth in the story.

Edited September 26, 2021 by gregintenn

[Dirtshooter]

Well I think if we eat food that isn't GMO or synthetic, we would all be better off.

[bobsguns]

On 9/25/2021 at 11:02 AM, Chucktshoes said:

Quit eating margarine, y’all. That stuff is terrible for you. 

This.

Set a tub of an open container of margarine outside. There won't be a single fly to land on it. 

[Wingshooter]

On 9/25/2021 at 11:46 AM, 10-Ring said:

I'll take butter over margarine and sugar over artificial sweeteners.  Key is moderation, which I struggle with. 

This is truth. I struggle with the moderation as well. Stuff just tastes so good! 

Edited September 27, 2021 by Wingshooter

[E4 No More]

On 9/26/2021 at 8:36 AM, gregintenn said:

I’ve read that margarine was invented as an economical way to fatten turkeys on a commercial farm. It was killing the turkeys, so they abandoned the project. Now we eat it. No idea if there is any truth in the story.

https://culinarylore.com/food-science:margarine-is-one-molecule-away-from-plastic-and-other-myths/

[E4 No More]

I was raised on margarine. About 10 years ago we switched to all butter and won't look back.

[OldIronFan]

Just stop buying into the "Low Fat Diet" scheme and the traditional food pyramid nonsense. 
Fat is not the enemy. Refined and processed crap is.

All those low fat products generally have a ton of sugars and salts added to them in an attempt to get them to taste like something in the neighborhood of what they are attempting to replace. 

Vegetable and seed oils (extracted and processed stuff again) are far worse for you than the naturally existing fats (animal fats). 

Sugars are the same. Corn Syrups and other high glycemic index processed/artificial sugars are horrid for your body. Much more so than natural fruit sugars, honey or even raw cane sugar. 

Flours and grains are better but still not great. Limit your intake of sugars and grains and you will be much better off, especially processed flour. We do not need nearly as much grain as the old school food pyramid would have you believe. Get your fiber from fruits and vegetables instead.

And for the love of all that is good stop eating soy, especially soybean oils!

If you can't grow it or raise it in your back yard you probably shouldn't be eating it. 

[E4 No More]

17 hours ago, OldIronFan said:

Just stop buying into the "Low Fat Diet" scheme and the traditional food pyramid nonsense. 
Fat is not the enemy. Refined and processed crap is.

All those low fat products generally have a ton of sugars and salts added to them in an attempt to get them to taste like something in the neighborhood of what they are attempting to replace. 

Vegetable and seed oils (extracted and processed stuff again) are far worse for you than the naturally existing fats (animal fats). 

Sugars are the same. Corn Syrups and other high glycemic index processed/artificial sugars are horrid for your body. Much more so than natural fruit sugars, honey or even raw cane sugar. 

Flours and grains are better but still not great. Limit your intake of sugars and grains and you will be much better off, especially processed flour. We do not need nearly as much grain as the old school food pyramid would have you believe. Get your fiber from fruits and vegetables instead.

And for the love of all that is good stop eating soy, especially soybean oils!

If you can't grow it or raise it in your back yard you probably shouldn't be eating it. 

I'd starve under that guidance. My yard doesn't seem to be able to grow .

[buck1032]

45 minutes ago, E4 No More said:

I'd starve under that guidance. My yard doesn't seem to be able to grow .

Same here and what little I can grow wont feed us all. Also on the other hand I am not sure i can grow the proper things to make gochujang.

[E4 No More]

1 hour ago, buck1032 said:

Same here and what little I can grow wont feed us all. Also on the other hand I am not sure i can grow the proper things to make gochujang.

The funny part is that my house is build on an old corn field yet I can't get corn to grow on it.

[Grunt67]

I don't think I've eat butter since Granny quit churning.

[OldIronFan]

5 hours ago, E4 No More said:

I'd starve under that guidance. My yard doesn't seem to be able to grow .

My comment about growing/raising in your back yard is a bit more a conceptual than literal. 

I am speaking to items that are possible to grow in a yard/field, harvest it,  and bring it to your table with your own hands. I could raise livestock and process it with traditional methods if I was so inclined. I am not going to grow kiwi in my back yard but if my climate was suitable I could without conducting a science experiment. 
What I can't do is extract and refine palm oil in my shed. I can't produce High Fructose Corn Syrup in my kitchen easily. 

And as for your own personal yard... You just have to figure out what it needs. I no longer have a garden since I would have to build rabbit and deer proof barriers at the new house but when I did I did not plant in the ground I built raised beds with carefully cultured soil that mixed from numerous compost sources and other organic material. You can do raised beds or simply amend what you have if you determine what is lacking.