Setting the record straight on the great butter debate
Debate over butter flared this past year, with conflicting reports on whether the stuff is unhealthy. In this exclusive MedPage Today video, Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPH, of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, addresses the surrounding confusion, emphasizing the key issue of comparators. While occasional butter consumption is permissible, he argues that there are healthier fats (such as olive and soybean oils) that improve patients' chances for maintaining long-term health.
More here: http://www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/DietNutrition/62964?xid=nl_mpt_SRPediatrics2017-02-08&eun=g1101968d0r
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Debate over butter flared this past year, with conflicting reports on whether the stuff is unhealthy. In this exclusive MedPage Today video, Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPH, of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, addresses the surrounding confusion, emphasizing the key issue of comparators. While occasional butter consumption is permissible, he argues that there are healthier fats (such as olive and soybean oils) that improve patients' chances for maintaining long-term health.
More here: http://www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/DietNutrition/62964?xid=nl_mpt_SRPediatrics2017-02-08&eun=g1101968d0r
Check out the comments hardly convinced by his pearls