Chris and I have just returned from the doctor for our three monthly blood checks for cholesterol and so on. The news regarding our cholesterol was great!
I read Pearl and Serene's Trim Healthy Mama book and although I am not following everything in it, I was impressed with their assertion that butter is better than margarine. They say that there is more nutrition in butter and that it simply isn't true that butter eaters would have an explosion of heart attacks and strokes.
As we both adore the taste of butter, I decided to put it to the test. I have been serving only butter at the table and cooking solely with it. Well, it seems that the girls were right!
My cholesterol was 3.8 with the LDL's (bad cholesterol) lower than ever, and Chris's was 4.7 with LDL's lower as well. Our doctor was well pleased with our results. We are rejoicing that we can enjoy our buttered crumpets for breakfast without feeling guilty or afraid. Man changes his mind over everything eventually. (Remember when eggs were bad for cholesterol, now you can have 3 a week). Spare a thought for those eating only egg whites for years too.
So if you enjoy the taste of butter, you can eat it without the guilt. Just make sure you take your statins if they are prescribed for you. We have ours and obviously they are working! That is a great load off our mind. It just goes to show you that the experts got it wrong again!
© Glenys Robyn Hicks
“Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings. Colossians 2:21-22
Glenys, I was blessed to have been raised by a mother who got into nutrition as a very young woman, long before it became fashionable. Besides reading everything she could on it, she had good instincts. She knew that anything made by man, highly processed, could not be better than things made by nature. So when everybody was jumping on the no butter no eggs bandwagon, she carried on with her butter and eggs, knowing the fake vegetable oils could do nothing but harm. Science is finally catching up and finding that it is actually sugar, not fat, that inflames arteries and causes heart disease. This post https://www.delightfulrepast.com/2016/09/sugar-toxin-or-treat.html is something I've been doing for several years and will do for the rest of my life.
ReplyDeleteThanks for taking tea with me today, Jean. I will look it up. Blessings, Glenys
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