Butter is better

I've been reading Michael Pollan's book in defense of food.

Even when growing up on margarine I knew it wasn't quite right. And yet as a young adult I couldn't freely make that break to butter because of the overwhelming indoctrination against butter. I wasn't aware that this campaign has been going on since the 70's and even though there is evidence to the contrary no one wants to admit it was a failure. At least not publicly. It wasn't till after I read from Sally Fallons book Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats that I made a complete change and chose butter over margarine and avoided processed goods made with hydrogenated oils.

My overall health improved and I lost weight. I had also started taking a super-antioxidant supplement with grape seed extract.

I recently purchase sour cream that doesn't contain guar gum or carrageenan. How simply delicious a naturally unadulterated product tastes. How wholesome and good.

The reason for the addition of such things as guar gum has been done under the supposed idea that this would make the sour cream more nutritionally better. This is based on the lipid hypotheses but as Michael Pollan states in his book such hypotheses as proven to be quite lacking in evidence.

"The lipid hypothesis is quietly melting away, but no one in the public health community, or the government, seems quite ready to publicly acknowledge it. For fear of what exactly? That we'll binge on bacon double cheeseburgers? More likely that we'll come to the unavoidable conclusion that the emperors of nutrition have no clothes and never listen to them again."

Coffee Cake

This coffee cake turned out so good. I had to post the recipe.

Cake:

Blend together 1/4 cup butter, 1/4 applesauce, 1/3 cup sugar, 1/2 cup sour milk or yogurt, 1 egg beaten and 1 tsp vanilla(I didn't have any vanilla).

Mix together 1 cup flour(today I used 1/2 white, 1/2 whole grain rye flour), 1/2 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp baking soda, 1/4 tsp salt.

Add butter mixture to flour mixture. Blend thoroughly.

Topping:

Mix together 1/3 cup brown sugar, 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 4 tsp melted butter, about 1/3 cup to 1/2 cup oats. Or you can add 1/2 cup chopped nuts instead.

Spread cake mixture in 8 x 8 pan, sprinkle on topping. Bake in 350 degrees oven for about 20 minutes.

Butter, something good for your health

I've been meaning to post more on the nutritional goodness of butter.

Check out this article by Dr. Mercola.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/22/7-Reasons-to-Eat-More-Saturated-Fat.aspx

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