Butter

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Context: Friend makes update to Facebook status. 18 Comments ensue. Excerpts below.
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Friend: (status) Butter is better! Stop eating margarine and go find some grass fed, organic butter! http://bit.ly/YiW9J

Douche#1: Use some other spread or just eat food that tastes good in the first place. Butter's almost nothing but saturated fat. < ... >

Me: Saturated fat tastes good.

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Douche#2 (yes a different guy): No, butter is not better! Use olive oil spread.

Douche#2: Douche#1,who paid to get you to say that? The reality is that butter contains milk solids, milkfat, aka butter fat aka the stuff that lines your arterial walls as plaque and causes blood clots. Butter is made from calf's milk which turns "60 lb calfs into 350 lb cows" -- its not real food. If you want fat try vegetable oils, olive oil, etc. ... Stop eating meat and exercise. If you do eat meat, eat only a small, small portion of meat. Meat is "survival food" -- meaning it should be only eaten as a last ditch effort for survival.

Douche#2: "Numerous subsequent studies costing hundreds of millions of dollars, have failed to conclusively back up this claim.5"
Except you can watch a video of what happens to a patient who has arteries blocked by butter fat and meat fats: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHE1ig4k64M

Friend: wow, didnt think I would spawn such a response. I think the point is just don't eat margarine. That was what I took away. Nutrition is a new science, but research HAS shown that certain fats are critical to digesting certain nutrients. Certainly this article isn't saying to go out and eat a butter sandwich, if you aren't an idiot, you should get the point.

Douche#2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6CK9RIDFaY

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Me: Mmmm.....mascapone, creme fraiche and double devon cream. Yum.

Friend: for serious Jane!!!

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Douche#2: YOU DO NOT NEED A COW'S MILK OR ANY PRODUCT PRODUCED BY PROCESSING COW MILK. ESSENTIAL FATS ARE A PART OF VEGETABLES, NOT COW MILK.

Douche#2: EF (Essential Fats) are found in: Flaxseed oil (best source), Canola oil (Cheaper source), flaxseeds, flaxseed meal, hempseed oil, hempseeds, grapeseed oil, pumpkin seeds, pine nuts, pistachio nuts, almonds, sunflower seeds (raw), olive oil, olives, borage oil, evening primrose oil, black currant seed oil, chestnut oil. Replace hydrogenated fats (like margarine), cholesterol-based fats (butter/dairy products), and poly-saturated fats (common cooking oils) with healthy EFA-based fats when possible. For example, instead of margarine or butter on your warm (not hot) vegetables, use flaxseed and/or extra virgin olive oils with salt. (This tastes similar to margarine, as margarine is just hydrogenated oil with salt.) High heat, light, and oxygen destroy EFAs, so when consuming foods for their EFA content, try to avoid cooked or heated forms. For example, raw nuts are a better source than roasted nuts. Don't use flaxseed oil for cooking, and never re-use any type of oil.

Douche#2: Essential Fatty Acids are the "good fats" all over the news these days, and a very hot research topic. More is known about them every week as more studies come forward. Some information hasn't changed since Julius Fast wrote his book The Omega-3 Breakthrough (Tucson, Arizona: The Body Press 1987, ISBN 0-89586-625-0). For example, good fats compete with bad fats, so it's important to minimize the intake of trans fats and cholesterol (animal fat) while consuming enough good fats. Also, good fats raise your HDL or "good cholesterol". One of the jobs of this High Density Lipoprotein (HDL) or "good cholesterol" is to grab your bad cholesterol, LDL (Low Density Lipoprotein), and escort it to the liver where it is broken down and excreted. In other words, these good fats attack some of the damage already done by the bad fats. This is very important in an age when so many Americans are struggling to get their cholesterol down, and fight heart disease and obesity.

Me: i think being a douche is bad for your health.

Sane Person: Point: Jane. Holy balls my homepage is full of preachings from a health nut. If I wanted my eyes to bleed I'd have gone to PETA's website.