Interesting article about fat...

[mimitabby]

The last paragraph aligns perfectly with what I've always believed:

"The message isn't that you should gorge on butter, bacon, and cheese," says Volek. "It's that there's no scientific reason that natural foods containing saturated fat can't, or shouldn't, be part of a healthy diet."

[kelownagirl]

I like butter hence my sig. line. I usually eat it in moderation.

[mimitabby]

Kgirl, I've been a butter advocate since the early 1970's. how could margarine, which comes out of a machine, be better than cowbutter?

Now Olive oil is another story, even "better" for you; but there are some places where ONLY butter will do.

People who are vegetarians get high cholesterol. A coworker of mine, an Indian woman whose only non-vegetarian food was yogurt, was having trouble with her cholesterol and getting chubby. She went to the doctor who told her to INCREASE her protein intake (more yoghurt and BEANS!)
and decrease stuff like white rice. She lost weight and her cholesterol is better.
Knowing how strict she is with diet (unlike most of us cheaters) she was a good case study.


As Long as Meat is available, I'm going to eat it. Not a lot, but it's a part of my diet. Without it, I don't feel as good.

[Eden]

I like butter hence my sig. line. I usually eat it in moderation.

Things with modified fats (hydrogenated, fractionated...) are WORSE than the real thing - I don't know if its true any more, but I seem to recall most margerines used to be nice fat sticks of hydrogenated oils, so it would in fact be much better to stick to real honest to goodness butter....

We use olive oil or canola oil for 99.9% of the cooking in our house. I probably use less than 2lbs of butter in an entire year...

[kelownagirl]

I use olive oil for all of my cooking but if I put something on my bread etc, it's butter.

[Eden]

I use olive oil for all of my cooking but if I put something on my bread etc, it's butter.

Call me weird, but I don't like buttered bread... I used to use butter for cooking eggs, but now that I've discovered cooking spray I'm a convert. It doesn't taste nasty like eggs cooked in oil can and it actually works better for releasing fried eggs too. It's also super easy to apply to a waffle iron and my husband likes making whole grain waffles .

[kelownagirl]

Call me weird, but I don't like buttered bread... I used to use butter for cooking eggs, but now that I've discovered cooking spray I'm a convert. It doesn't taste nasty like eggs cooked in oil can and it actually works better for releasing fried eggs too. It's also super easy to apply to a waffle iron and my husband likes making whole grain waffles .

I use a non-stick pan and don't use any fat to cook eggs, pancakes etc.

I could LIVE on bread and butter. You are weird.

[Tuckervill]

Call me weird, but I don't like buttered bread... I used to use butter for cooking eggs, but now that I've discovered cooking spray I'm a convert. It doesn't taste nasty like eggs cooked in oil can and it actually works better for releasing fried eggs too. It's also super easy to apply to a waffle iron and my husband likes making whole grain waffles .

I never eat butter on bread, either, unless it's at a restaurant with special herbed butter or something. Then just a taste. I don't eat gravy, either--not since I was a child, but I make good gravy.

I've used real butter for about 8 years, too, and olive oil.

You're no so weird.

I have trouble getting enough protein in my diet since I started seriously losing weight. I never hit the goal, so I've taken to eating 4 slices of lean deli ham as a snack. I will always eat meat, too, but as a "condiment", like Christianne Northrup says.

Karen

Karen

[bmccasland]

But there is something about butter melted on a warm slice of whole wheat bread fresh from the oven... aaaah. which is why it doesn't occur very often

My problem with the sprays is two things - the spray can, and inhaling the aerosol oils. When I used them, I had to go outside to spray, sticking my nose up wind. Now I don't bother. But I don't cook eggs for breakfast either. For sauteing veggies or other things I use some olive oil in a non-stick pan. If I'm going to bake I use paper muffin tin liners (for muffins) or crisco to grease the pan. Heck if I'm going to bake a cake, what's a little crisco when there's a couple of sticks of butter involved anyway? Moderation folks, in moderation, and share!