A Yahoo news writer made several incorrect points about butter. Here is what you need to know about a recent saturated fat study and the reasons given for why butter is bad for your health.
I often like to ask people, including MDs and smug "experts," how it could possibly be that saturated fat, which was the only fat humans ate for hundreds of thousands of years, the fat they evolved eating, could possibly be bad for human health. This look crosses their faces, as if they've never thought of such a thing, which is when I know that they are cretins. They never have an answer.
I mean, I love butter, but I could easily answer you that humans long ago used to live until like 30-50 years max.. so not really the pinnacle of health 😅
Then you have read nothing about paleolithic people. Their lifespans were the same as today. The only reason their "numbers" look bad is because of infant mortality.
Thank you so much for your fight against the continuous erroneous information that they are pushing. Upton Sinclair said “It is very difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
About 10 years ago I read “The Great Cholesterol Myth” which pointed to a study that half of the people who had heart disease did not have high cholesterol, and half of the people who had high cholesterol did not have heart disease. Although that was an eye opener for me, when I tried to tell her that, my doctor (totally missing the point) said “Well, which half are you?”
I told a doc NO to statins and I would make lifestyle changes. By the time I got home Walgreens had called announcing my Rx for statins was ready. Never saw that doctor again. Never picked the Rx up.
I haven't tried this out myself, but have you tried searching for a functional medicine doctor? You can do a search on https://www.ifm.org/find-a-practitioner
My understanding from books and podcasts is that functional medicine is about getting to the root causes of disease. The biggest roadblock for a lot of people will probably be cost, since many of these type of doctors don't take insurance. There are also a couple of interesting health tech startups that have popped up recently, like Function Health (co-founded by Dr. Mark Hyman).
It's like the one Vinay Prasad did recently about the butter vs plant based. They included margarine spreadable butter WITH the butter and Olive Oil with the seed oils.
I found unpasteurized butter at a local farmer owned grocery store. Slight cheese smell no salt but tastes very good. Someone told me it was bad. I like butter and this farm made butter is pretty good. I read the cheese smell is actually good for us.
I started using Palm oil for frying. They told us it was bad so I just figured it probably is better than seed oils.
Coconut oil well that is used for everything.
Deep fried chicken in cold pressed coconut oil is next level flavor. I have access to Coco oil cheap.
I can make any Diesel motor run on processed seed oil better than it runs on diesel. I actually get prefromace and HP gains. Let that sink in.
Fake butter and margarine are not food. Butter is food. I don't know what is worse - the people who publish those "studies" saying real food is bad for you or the people who read it, believe it, and then try to push it everywhere else... like in school lunches.
Thank you for this article. The more the word gets out, the better.
Clearly, the authors of this study never read Nina Teicholz's "The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet" or Dr. Catherine Shanahan's "Deep Nutrition".
Btw, you have a couple of typos in the title of your post. "This authors" should be "The authors" and "shortern" should be "shorten".
I too was confused by smoke point va oxidation and it emphasizes that nutrition specifics are not intuitive.
Check out unsalted butter some time. (Oo not worth your time so nm) but one would think the ingredient would simply be cream (milk) but No- when they remove the salt they add other stuff- ingredients depend onthe brand. Infuriating!
Interesting. So you are saying unsalted butter has more ingredients than salted butter? I have not noticed this. If you have a link for one please share. Thank you.
for all my exposure to chemistry I am still having difficulty following the double bond/oxidation issue. Can you relate it to benzene, with three double bonds per ring? And then oxidation, which potentially yields dioxin?
I am a nutritionist, so I am not qualified to respond to that question or even understand the process. I know benzene as a solvent that can be used to create chemicals, is a known human carcinogen, and can be found in products such as antibacterial hand sanitizers and gasoline. You would think benzene would be less stable with three double bonds, but it is stable due to three double bonds that are delocalized pi-electrons. The location of the electrons is what makes benzene stable. As for the second part of the question, again, it's not my area of expertise. I would think oxidation would require at least very high temperatures for the dioxin yield. Why the interest in benzene?
I often like to ask people, including MDs and smug "experts," how it could possibly be that saturated fat, which was the only fat humans ate for hundreds of thousands of years, the fat they evolved eating, could possibly be bad for human health. This look crosses their faces, as if they've never thought of such a thing, which is when I know that they are cretins. They never have an answer.
I mean, I love butter, but I could easily answer you that humans long ago used to live until like 30-50 years max.. so not really the pinnacle of health 😅
Then you have read nothing about paleolithic people. Their lifespans were the same as today. The only reason their "numbers" look bad is because of infant mortality.
Thank you so much for your fight against the continuous erroneous information that they are pushing. Upton Sinclair said “It is very difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
About 10 years ago I read “The Great Cholesterol Myth” which pointed to a study that half of the people who had heart disease did not have high cholesterol, and half of the people who had high cholesterol did not have heart disease. Although that was an eye opener for me, when I tried to tell her that, my doctor (totally missing the point) said “Well, which half are you?”
Wow, that doctor was clueless and probably motivated by profit and big pharma to remain clueless.
I told a doc NO to statins and I would make lifestyle changes. By the time I got home Walgreens had called announcing my Rx for statins was ready. Never saw that doctor again. Never picked the Rx up.
Good for you. Obviously the doctor did not respect nor listen to your decision. We need more people to “ fire” their doctors.
Yes. After several episodes like that I haven’t been back. I wish I knew how to locate a good primary care doctor; just in case.
Personally, I don't believe they exist anymore.
My option as well.
I haven't tried this out myself, but have you tried searching for a functional medicine doctor? You can do a search on https://www.ifm.org/find-a-practitioner
My understanding from books and podcasts is that functional medicine is about getting to the root causes of disease. The biggest roadblock for a lot of people will probably be cost, since many of these type of doctors don't take insurance. There are also a couple of interesting health tech startups that have popped up recently, like Function Health (co-founded by Dr. Mark Hyman).
It's like the one Vinay Prasad did recently about the butter vs plant based. They included margarine spreadable butter WITH the butter and Olive Oil with the seed oils.
https://ascopost.com/news/march-2025/greater-plant-based-oil-lower-butter-intake-could-improve-risk-of-cancer-related-mortality
Oh thanks, somehow I missed that post of his!
I changed to butter in early 2020. I say Build Back Butter!
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/05/01/b-is-for-build-back-butter-and-avoid-margarine/
I found unpasteurized butter at a local farmer owned grocery store. Slight cheese smell no salt but tastes very good. Someone told me it was bad. I like butter and this farm made butter is pretty good. I read the cheese smell is actually good for us.
I started using Palm oil for frying. They told us it was bad so I just figured it probably is better than seed oils.
Coconut oil well that is used for everything.
Deep fried chicken in cold pressed coconut oil is next level flavor. I have access to Coco oil cheap.
I can make any Diesel motor run on processed seed oil better than it runs on diesel. I actually get prefromace and HP gains. Let that sink in.
Fake butter and margarine are not food. Butter is food. I don't know what is worse - the people who publish those "studies" saying real food is bad for you or the people who read it, believe it, and then try to push it everywhere else... like in school lunches.
Thank you for this article. The more the word gets out, the better.
You are welcome. If people want to eat fake food, that is their choice but please do not tell me the science indicates it's healthy.
Clearly, the authors of this study never read Nina Teicholz's "The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet" or Dr. Catherine Shanahan's "Deep Nutrition".
Btw, you have a couple of typos in the title of your post. "This authors" should be "The authors" and "shortern" should be "shorten".
Ugh, thank you, I will fix those- I appreciate that as I just don't catch all my typos.
I too was confused by smoke point va oxidation and it emphasizes that nutrition specifics are not intuitive.
Check out unsalted butter some time. (Oo not worth your time so nm) but one would think the ingredient would simply be cream (milk) but No- when they remove the salt they add other stuff- ingredients depend onthe brand. Infuriating!
Thanks for your Informative work!
Interesting. So you are saying unsalted butter has more ingredients than salted butter? I have not noticed this. If you have a link for one please share. Thank you.
I think at the VERY least we both know that Olive Oil and Canola oil and Soybean oil should not be in the same category!!
Yes, that should be the first clue as to why the study should be put into the propaganda pile.
for all my exposure to chemistry I am still having difficulty following the double bond/oxidation issue. Can you relate it to benzene, with three double bonds per ring? And then oxidation, which potentially yields dioxin?
I am a nutritionist, so I am not qualified to respond to that question or even understand the process. I know benzene as a solvent that can be used to create chemicals, is a known human carcinogen, and can be found in products such as antibacterial hand sanitizers and gasoline. You would think benzene would be less stable with three double bonds, but it is stable due to three double bonds that are delocalized pi-electrons. The location of the electrons is what makes benzene stable. As for the second part of the question, again, it's not my area of expertise. I would think oxidation would require at least very high temperatures for the dioxin yield. Why the interest in benzene?