One of the worse things to happen to the Standard American Diet (notice the acronyms are SAD) was removing real butter. The nutrient profile of real (preferably raw and organic) butter contains vitamins A, E, D, K2, lecithin, conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), medium chain fatty acids (MCFAs), selenium, iodine, and maganese. If your diet does not have enough of the right fat, you can become
insulin resistant. MCFAs are antimicrobial in the gut, for one thing. Spread the real butter!
“The diet-heart hypothesis has been repeatedly shown to be wrong, and yet, for complicated reasons of pride, profit and prejudice, the hypothesis continues to be exploited by scientists, fund-raising enterprises, food companies and even governmental agencies. The public is being deceived by the greatest health scam of the century” — George Mann, M.D., Formerly Associate Director, the Framingham Project Study
What exactly does this mean? It is okay to eat the skin on the chicken, it is okay to scrambled your (real) eggs with real butter, it is okay to have ‘kidney pie’ or ‘spleen burger,’ it is okay to have SATURATED fat (coconut oil, dairy fats, palm kernel oil, beef tallow, avocados, lard), it is OKAY! Saturated fats are needed for lung surfactant, to use and retain essential fatty acids, fights viruses, bacteria, and protozoan, optimizes use of calcium for bones, lowers lipoprotein A, protects liver from toxins, enhances the immune system, on and on…
Stop eating margarine (use real butter), Crisco (use real lard), corn oil (goes rancid inside the body), sunflower oil (same), shortening (polyunsaturated fatty acids), vegetable oils (same), hydrogenated oils (mostly processed carbohydrates), and trans fatty acids (mostly processed carbohydrates).
Your brain needs the fat! The body needs 3 nutrients: cholesterol, fats, protein. Cell membrane are 50% saturated fat. If those cells are not getting the fat they need, what do you think will happen…?
The biggest and most beneficial change you can make in your food plan/lifestyle is to eat no more than 60-100 carbohydrates. Read the labels!!
**This blog is intended for educational purposes only and should not be used as a guide for diagnosis or treatment of any kind. This content is brought to you by the brilliant work and thinking of the pioneers of nutrition: Dr. Royal Lee, Dr. Weston A. Price, Dr. Melvin E. Page, Dr. Francis Pottenger, and many more for their ceaseless dedication to better nutrition and health!
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