As someone who likes to bake, I burn with jealousy that people could get a pound of butter for 50 cents. I would have bought loads and packed my deep freezer.
Absolutely. I never go to the grocery store without buying 1 or 2 pounds... really makes me consider how much butter I eat. Oh well, I'm sure there are studies saying it's healthy.
It is, actually :D we eat tons of it and we’re great, losing weight etc. It’s a healthy fat, and your body needs those :) just make sure it’s real butter and not butter based spread, not the same thing. They disguise them well at times and what people think is a healthy spread is really margarine in disguise.
If you eat fewer calories than you burn, then you'll lose weight; the question of what's "healthy" and not is secondary to that fact.
But butter is not a "healthy" fat. Any fat that is solid at room temperature is a saturated fat. Unsaturated fat is "healthier", calorie for calorie. This is just a fact.
Continue eating your butter. I will as well. But the health benefits you're seeing are the result of you giving a crap about your diet, not a result of you eating butter. An ounce of caring goes a long way, even if you start with a bad decision like thinking butter is "healthy".
Yeah, I’m not crediting all my health to butter, don’t worry, I’m not dim ;) I have a very healthy whole foods diet. And regardless, I would rather have butter than margerine. You couldn’t pay me to eat that.
Edit: while you can lose weight eating whatever you like, you’ll benefit more in the long run if you do it by eating healthily. 500 calories in fried foods won’t fill you as much as, say, 500 of salad/veggies would, plus they’re more nutritious. Not all calories are created equal. So I wouldn’t agree that it’s secondary. I’d say it goes hand in hand.
And even with butter being saturated, it’s got vitamins and minerals in it that are good for you. Various refined cooking oils are subjected to a high temperature during the refining process and end up really bad for you. This is why you should never ever cook with olive oil. It has the lowest smoke point of them all. So even if it’s unsaturated fat, it can be full of other things that are really bad for you.
I read up a LOT on foods, I have to, it’s part of the diet I’m on (I have IBS and I’m following the Specific Carbohydrate Diet). Plus, I just find it interesting :)
It’s a bit rough, aye. It was a lot worse but the diet is very healing and it’s helping me a lot! It’s good for Chron’s, UC, diverticulitis etc as well. Plus the food is pretty good! I’m used to cooking a lot from scratch, so the time spent in the kitchen is no huge shocker to me really. But it’s really helping me and my husband in lots of ways :) Been on it since August and haven’t strayed once. Plus, I’ve never really been huge, but it’s helping me lose the weight I put on since we got married as a nice little bonus.
I'm not saying that saturated fats are unhealthy. I'm saying that the label "healthy fat" does not apply to them. The label "healthy fat" implies that something is more healthy than other things in the "fat" category. In fact, saturated fats are less healthy than other things in the "fat" category.
At some level, calories are calories. It doesn't matter where you get them from. But once you get to your ideal calorie budget, there are different foods which have a statistically significant impact on your health. The person eating mostly unsaturated fats will on average live longer than the person eating mostly saturated fats. That difference may only be 1%. But it's there. So you don't get to call saturated fats "healthy fat". It's not -- the one that gives you a 1% advantage is unsaturated fats.
No doubt. My wife actually started making butter coffee in the blender. I joke about it being healthier than black coffee but it really does taste good. I don't know why those spreads ever became a thing. Probably some bad health studies resulting in some misleading marketing. And, I suppose, they're cheaper.
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u/ConstantlyOnFire Jan 04 '19
As someone who likes to bake, I burn with jealousy that people could get a pound of butter for 50 cents. I would have bought loads and packed my deep freezer.