Fat is PHAT; Palatable, Healthful and Tasty!
There have been few foods as maligned and misunderstood as butter.
Butter has long been an important dietary staple of many societies around the globe. From the 5,000-year-old bog butter of Ireland to the subcontinent of India where ghee (a type of clarified butter) remains not only a cooking staple, but also a medicine; butter has been important nutritionally, culturally, religiously, and perhaps most pertinent in the present, tastefully.
Yet if butter were a person, today there would be a GoFundMe page to stop the bullying and banter. You see, butter is the ultimate victim of fat shaming. Back in the day when everything was simpler and more confused, it was conventional wisdom that dietary cholesterol and fat—particularly saturated fat—would increase not only your waistline, but your cholesterol level. That meant an early death from cardiovascular disease.
Read on: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/you-are-what-you-eat/201607/buttah
There have been few foods as maligned and misunderstood as butter.
Butter has long been an important dietary staple of many societies around the globe. From the 5,000-year-old bog butter of Ireland to the subcontinent of India where ghee (a type of clarified butter) remains not only a cooking staple, but also a medicine; butter has been important nutritionally, culturally, religiously, and perhaps most pertinent in the present, tastefully.
Yet if butter were a person, today there would be a GoFundMe page to stop the bullying and banter. You see, butter is the ultimate victim of fat shaming. Back in the day when everything was simpler and more confused, it was conventional wisdom that dietary cholesterol and fat—particularly saturated fat—would increase not only your waistline, but your cholesterol level. That meant an early death from cardiovascular disease.
Read on: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/you-are-what-you-eat/201607/buttah