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[Silver Lotus]

Go ahead, spread butter on your toast without guilt. And don't be so obsessed about removing every last bit of fat from that pork chop. At long last, the nation's misguided notion that all fat is evil is losing its credibility, writes Mark Bittman in the New York Times. Even better, the "real villains in our diet—sugar and ultra-processed foods"—are getting the scorn they so deserve. All these years, Americans might have been doing more harm than good in substituting, say, margarine for butter, and all because the supposed experts told to us to avoid saturated fats. They were wrong.

"The tip of this iceberg has been visible for years, and we’re finally beginning to see the base," writes Bittman. How does it translate into what we should eat? Focus on real food—an actual piece of fruit rather than a fruit rollup—instead of the food-like substances that populate the supermarket aisles. If it didn't exist a century ago, be skeptical. Meat? Fine, but eat less of it and avoid the industrially processed stuff. And, of course, "you can go back to eating butter, if you haven’t already," writes Bittman. Click to read his full column.

[Irshgrl31201]

The first time I ate margarine was on toast when I slept over at a friends house. I had always had butter prior to that. Wow, what a shocker, it was very gross. Only butter in this house. Of course we use butter in moderation just like everything else. There is absolutely NOTHING comparable out there to butter.

[Preds]

Got my Butter Boy loaded with butter and I'm ready.

[MomOf4]

Geez, someone has been looking up weird news stories and starting a bunch of threads today!!

[Irshgrl31201]

On 3/26/2014 Predsfan said:

Got my Butter Boy loaded with butter and I'm ready.

I have never seen one of these. It is just a butter storer?

[Lila Belle]

No thanks. I'll still be using as little butter, fats, margarine as I can, avoiding fat on the little meat that we do eat and continue eliminating processed foods when possible.

[scotttie]

On 3/26/2014 Irshgrl31201 said:

The first time I ate margarine was on toast when I slept over at a friends house. I had always had butter prior to that. Wow, what a shocker, it was very gross. Only butter in this house. Of course we use butter in moderation just like everything else. There is absolutely NOTHING comparable out there to butter.

ITA. That's the point. Everything in moderation. Sugar, Butter, Fat, etc. etc. etc. all the devils....moderation is the true right way to eat.

Every few years the "experts" come out with some new devil. I gave up on getting worked up about their pronouncements years ago. Basically, you live until you die....and we are all going to.

[MrsLorraine]

Does anyone remember the scene in a Woody Allen movie where an advanced society talked about all the diet parts that are good for you: ""didn't they know about butter? sugar? cream""?lard?"" etc.

Was it ""Take The Money And Run""?

ETA: I just looked it up; it was ""Sleeper"".

[SydneyH]

On 3/26/2014 MomOf4 said:

Geez, someone has been looking up weird news stories and starting a bunch of threads today!!

We supposed to pretend that we are being educated, lol. Bittman writes terrific cookbooks btw......

[Preds]

On 3/26/2014 Irshgrl31201 said:

On 3/26/2014 Predsfan said:

Got my Butter Boy loaded with butter and I'm ready.

I have never seen one of these. It is just a butter storer?

You place half a stick in him and when you pop the top part of his head off he becomes a ""roller"" for buttering your corn. Used it last night for the first time and it was great. There is a plunger in the bottom that you push up. Put his top back on and stick him in the fridge.