The 20 Health Benefits
of Real Butter
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!
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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.
So how did butter become a villain in the quest for good health?
At the turn of our century, heart disease in America was rare. By 1960, it
was our number one killer. Yet during the same time period, butter consumption
had decreased - from eighteen pounds per person per year, to four.4
A researcher named Ancel Keys was the first to propose that saturated fat
and cholesterol in the diet were to blame for coronary heart disease (CAD).
Numerous subsequent studies costing hundreds of millions of dollars, have
failed to conclusively back up this claim.5
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 .
Is Margarine Better than Butter?
No! This is a tragic myth. Butter is a completely natural food essential
to your health - especially when you eat organic. Also, please make the extra
effort to obtain high-quality organic, raw butter.
Margarines, on the other hand, are a processed food, created chemically from
refined polyunsaturated oils. The process used to make these normally liquid
oils into spread-able form is called hydrogenation.
Margarine and similar hydrogenated or processed polyunsaturated oils are
potentially more detrimental to your health than any saturated fat.7
For more information on why you should avoid all processed oils read Why
the Processing of Consumable Oils Has Devastated America's Health.
Include Real Butter as part of Your Body Ecology Lifestyle
As many of you already know, I am a strong proponent of including a variety
of healthy oils and fats into your diet. Together they work as a team to supply
your body with essential fatty acids for longevity, hormone balance, heart
health, sharp vision, glowing moist skin and energy. The wonderful variety
of oils and fats certainly includes organic, preferably raw butter. Cultured
raw butter is even better.
And why would I be so insistent that you eat butter? Take a look at the
long list of the benefits you receive when you include it in your diet:8
- Butter is rich in the most easily absorbable form of Vitamin A necessary
for thyroid and adrenal health.
- Contains lauric acid, important in treating fungal infections and candida.
- Contains lecithin, essential for cholesterol metabolism.
- Contains anti-oxidants that protect against free radical damage.
- Has anti-oxidants that protect against weakening arteries.
- Is a great source of Vitamins E and K.
- Is a very rich source of the vital mineral selenium.
- Saturated fats in butter have strong anti-tumor and anti-cancer properties.
- Butter contains conjugated
linoleic acid, which is a potent anti-cancer agent, muscle builder,
and immunity booster
- Vitamin D found in butter is essential to absorption of calcium.
- Protects against tooth decay.
- Is your only source of an anti-stiffness factor, which protects against
calcification of the joints.
- Anti-stiffness factor in butter also prevents hardening of the arteries,
cataracts, and calcification of the pineal gland.
- Is a source of Activator
X, which helps your body absorb minerals.
- Is a source of iodine in highly absorbable form.
- May promote fertility in women.9
- Is a source of quick energy, and is not stored in our bodies adipose
tissue.
- Cholesterol found in butterfat is essential to children's brain and nervous
system development.
- Contains Arachidonic Acid (AA) which plays a role in brain function and
is a vital component of cell membranes.
- Protects against gastrointestinal infections in the very young or the
elderly.
Raw, Organic Butter is the Best
Believe me this is only a partial list. If a woman is pregnant, hopes
to become pregnant or is nursing her baby, I think it should even become a
law for her to eat butter for her baby's developing brain, bones and teeth.
The best butter you can eat is raw, organic butter because
pasteurization destroys nutrients. Unfortunately, the sale of raw butter
is prohibited in most of our 50 states.
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
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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 of Healthy Butter
If you don't want to culture your own butter, I recommend butter from grass-fed
animals only. A good source is U.S.
Wellness Meats.
I also recommend Activator X and Vitamin rich butter oil, made by Green
Pastures.
Heart Healthy-the Body Ecology Way
Completely eliminating butter and other healthy animal source fats is NOT
the Body Ecology way. It is not how our ancestors thrived, and not
what nature intended.
How much should you eat each day? Like sea salt, your own body will tell you
how much to eat. If you crave it, eat it, your body needs it. If the quality
is excellent you can feel confident it will be good for you and you'll soon
see the benefits yourself. If you are following the Body Ecology Food Combining
Principle and eating as we recommend (adding at least one source of fermented
food or drink to your diet) you will see your body reach its idea weight.
The raw butter will help you develop beautiful muscles.
The Body Ecology program is gaining recognition for being a premier way of
healing candida and other immune dysfunctions. And what's more, it's a heart-healthy,
super-slimming, anti-aging way of life, which is crucial to your health
as a whole.
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
http://www.westonaprice.org/foodfeatures/butter.html
9Fertility 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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