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Are you worried about your health? Contrary to popular belief, completely eliminating butter from your diet
may be BAD for your health! Learn all the benefits of eating butter here!
The origins of butter go back thousands of years to when our ancestors first
started domesticating animals. In fact, the first written reference to butter
was found on a 4500- year old limestone tablet illustrating how butter was
made.1
In India, ghee (clarified butter) has been used as a staple food, and as a
symbol of purity, worthy of offering to the gods in religious ceremonies for
more than 3000 years.2
The Bible has references to butter as the product of milk from the cow, and
of Abraham setting butter and milk from a calf before three angels who
appeared to him on the plains of Mamre.3
For millennia, people around the globe have prized butter for its health
benefits.
Yet the notion that a healthy diet is one with minimal fat, particularly
saturated fat, has persisted. While Americans drastically reduced their intake
of natural animal fats like butter and meat, the processed food industry,
particularly the low-fat food industry, proliferated.
When the baby boomers were children, concerned mothers began to replace
butter with margarine. The margarine manufacturers told them it was the
healthier alternative and mothers believed them. In those days no one
asked, "where is the science to prove it? I want to know before I give this
man-made, plastized stuff to my children. After all we humans have been
eating butter for thousands of years?".
As a result, since the early 1970's, Americans' average saturated fat
intake has dropped considerably, while rates of obesity, diabetes,
and consequently, heart disease, have surged.
Reducing healthy sources of dietary fat has contributed to a serious decline
in our well-being, and those of us that speak out against the anti-fat
establishment are still largely ignored .
Are you finding it difficult to get organic, raw butter? Don't worry! Making your own delicious cultured butter
with Body Ecology Culture Starter is an easy way to get on the right track towards health
You can, however, make your own healthy butter, and it is easier than you
think. Look into our Body Ecology Culture Starter, which you simply add to
organic cream. After letting this mixture sit at room temperature for 24
hours, chill it, beat it with a whisk, and voila! You'll have
healthy, probiotic butter that is delicious!
Cultured butter is full of health sustaining good bacteria like lactobacillus
planterum, and lactococcus lactis. These microflora are essential for a healthy
inner ecosystem.
SOURCES:
1.
History of Butter
http://www.dairygoodness.ca/en/consumers/products/butter/history-of-butter.htm
2.
"Butter" from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter#Worldwide
3.
Princely Packets of Golden Health
http://webexhibits.org/butter/ref/MiltonEParker.pdf
4.
Why Butter is Better
http://www.westonaprice.org/foodfeatures/butter.html
5.
The Soft Science of Dietary Fat, Science Magazine, March 2001
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/taubes.html#linktop
6.
Ibid
7.
Polyunsaturated Oils Increase Cancer Risk
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/fats_and_cancer.html
8.
From The Skinny on Fats
http://www.westonaprice.org/knowyourfats/skinny.html
and Why Butter is Better
9.
http://www.westonaprice.org/foodfeatures/butter.html
10.
Fertility Awareness, Food, and Night-lighting
http://www.westonaprice.org/women/fertility.html and
High Fat Dairy May Boost Fertility
http://www.nutraingredients.com/news/printnewsbis.asp?id=74590
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