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For someone of us Butter Never Left.
But for those of you who have been living on skinless chicken breasts and Earth Balance Spread, your culinary penance has all been for nought.
Butter is Back and Bettah Than Evah!
Julia Child, goddess of fat, is beaming somewhere. Butter is back, and when youre looking for a few chunks of pork for a stew, you can resume searching for the best pieces the ones with the most fat. Eventually, your friends will stop glaring at you as if youre trying to kill them.
That the worm is turning became increasingly evident a couple of weeks ago, when a meta-analysis published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine found that theres just no evidence to support the notion that saturated fat increases the risk of heart disease. (In fact, theres some evidence that a lack of saturated fat may be damaging.) The researchers looked at 72 different studies and, as usual, said more work including more clinical studies is needed. For sure. But the days of skinless chicken breasts and tubs of I Cant Believe Its Not Butter may finally be drawing to a close.
The tip of this iceberg has been visible for years, and were finally beginning to see the base. Of course, no study is perfect and few are definitive. But the real villains in our diet sugar and ultra-processed foods are becoming increasingly apparent. You can go back to eating butter, if you havent already.
This doesnt mean you abandon fruit for beef and cheese; you just abandon fake food for real food, and in that category of real food you can include good meat and dairy. I would argue, however, that you might not include most industrially produced animal products; stand by....
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/26/opinion/bittman-butter-is-back.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=2
But for those of you who have been living on skinless chicken breasts and Earth Balance Spread, your culinary penance has all been for nought.
Butter is Back and Bettah Than Evah!
Julia Child, goddess of fat, is beaming somewhere. Butter is back, and when youre looking for a few chunks of pork for a stew, you can resume searching for the best pieces the ones with the most fat. Eventually, your friends will stop glaring at you as if youre trying to kill them.
That the worm is turning became increasingly evident a couple of weeks ago, when a meta-analysis published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine found that theres just no evidence to support the notion that saturated fat increases the risk of heart disease. (In fact, theres some evidence that a lack of saturated fat may be damaging.) The researchers looked at 72 different studies and, as usual, said more work including more clinical studies is needed. For sure. But the days of skinless chicken breasts and tubs of I Cant Believe Its Not Butter may finally be drawing to a close.
The tip of this iceberg has been visible for years, and were finally beginning to see the base. Of course, no study is perfect and few are definitive. But the real villains in our diet sugar and ultra-processed foods are becoming increasingly apparent. You can go back to eating butter, if you havent already.
This doesnt mean you abandon fruit for beef and cheese; you just abandon fake food for real food, and in that category of real food you can include good meat and dairy. I would argue, however, that you might not include most industrially produced animal products; stand by....
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/26/opinion/bittman-butter-is-back.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=2
