Butter Is Good For You

[threebikesmcginty]

Whilst perusing the Oz press the other day to see what they were saying about their shit cricketers I stumbled upon this piece of nonsense. It's ridiculous as butter has always been the healthy spread of choice, anything else is just disease-loaded manufactured spreadable dung.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/heal...at-butter-is-bad-for-you-20150809-giuuia.html

 

[Globalti]

IIRC it can be traced back to a flawed study conducted in Japan in the 1950s...

So in time-honoured tradition food manufacturers siezed on the flawed research and used it to spearhead a PR campaign to persuade consumers to switch from plain, simple old butter, where it wasn't possible to add much value beyond fancy packaging and adverising, to hydrogenated vegetable fats where any amount of technical molehusbandry was possible and the raw materials, vegetable oil and hydrogen and water, along with trace elements of colour and flavour, were becoming cheaper and cheaper? The leaders in this scam must have been big industrials like Unilever and Lesieur Cotelle with their limitless R&D resources and massive purchasing power allowing them to buy by the shipload at commodity prices.

 

[Markymark]

Who cares, probably prefer mayonnaise anyway.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Who cares, probably prefer mayonnaise anyway.

 

[Markymark]

Sorry, I've already been burnt twice apparently - though one of them I was given a nice pair of bangers.

 

[Wafer]

So in time-honoured tradition food manufacturers siezed on the flawed research and used it to spearhead a PR campaign to persuade consumers to switch from plain, simple old butter, where it wasn't possible to add much value beyond fancy packaging and adverising, to hydrogenated vegetable fats where any amount of technical molehusbandry was possible and the raw materials, vegetable oil and hydrogen and water, along with trace elements of colour and flavour, were becoming cheaper and cheaper? The leaders in this scam must have been big industrials like Unilever and Lesieur Cotelle with their limitless R&D resources and massive purchasing power allowing them to buy by the shipload at commodity prices.

Some of the research was indeed funded by some large food companies, which managed to get by relatively unchallenged. However various bits of research that dared show that dairy/red meat wasn't the enemy was criticised and devalued by linking it to dairy industry funding who were made out to be the evil fat paddlers giving us all heart attacks.
Some execs were having a good old laugh at the expense of peoples health.

 

[Globalti]

So how long before all this bollocks about probiotic yoghurt drinks hits the buffers? The scale of the TV advertising gives a clue to the massive profits to be made by peddling watered-down sugary yoghurt in tiny little plastic bottles.

 

[theclaud]

Paging @theclaud for a full-on Margerine rant ....

There in spirit, but not got time. Consider this a place-holder.

 

[theclaud]

I do f**king hate margarine, though. Invented by bastards.

 

[Markymark]

I do f**king hate margarine, though. Invented by bastards.

You should try I can't believe it's not butter.

You won't believe its not butter.

 

[mustang1]

Ha check this out. My wife used to buy clover and now buys normal butter (she used to say butter is bad). Her mum used to buy normal butter and now buys clover (she used to say clover is bad).

Go figure. Or don't. I just eat whatever's in the fridge.

 

[Markymark]

[QUOTE 3849895, member: 259"]Do you have it on I'll be farked if this isn't toast?[/QUOTE]
Depends, if it's my wife making it it'll be... Fudge-me this toast is like charcoal.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

You should try I can't believe it's not butter.

You won't believe its not butter.

I can't believe it. Snot butter!

I had the fortune to have been given Stock margarine from an early age. One taste of butter and that was me converted. The only difference was that back in the day there was a feeling that you were taking your life into your own hands by eating butter. But there again, having been told that if you swallowed chewing gum it would wrap itself around your heart, I'd still swallow the stuff and think ''Ooh, got away with it this time...''

 

[MacB]

butter, so thick you can see your teeth marks in it

many years ago a GreatAunt of mine showed me how to butter toast properly. Spread plenty of butter when toast is hot and let it melt in. Then add another layer to sink your teeth into....she was stick thin

 

[Over The Hill]

I think you're correct, but in terms of the major change in the western diet away from fat/dairy and to high carb/low fat and the correlation with the sudden rise in Obesity, the graph kicks-skywards from the early to mid 80s.

The change has been more from fat/dairy to fat/dairy/sugar. We have changed a few things like spreads, and how we cook (throwing out the chip pan) but there certainly does not seem to be any trend towards a good diet of carbs/fruit/veg.

From my extensive survey (a trip to Morrison's) the fruit and veg section seems to be the area you whizz through quickly before loading up the trolley with fizzy drinks, cake, sweets, processed lumps of meat with some fatty breadcrumb layer, lager, crisps and pizza.
Then stopping for a latte after.