I smile….today I begin 3 days of total relaxation…..let the holiday weekend begin!
Before I start….this morning was a good day in the garden…..
As long as we are starting with the food thing……..
Remember back in the day when we were told that everything edible for breakfast was bad for us…eggs, bacon, butter….I always ate those items in moderation so I never worried about eating them.
Finally a study on butter……
We might all owe Paula Deen an apology. A study published this week in PLOS ONE finds no connection between eating butter and an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. On the contrary, researchers found eating butter might actually make people slightly healthier by reducing the risk of diabetes. Researchers from Tufts University looked at nine previous studies of more than 636,000 people who ate between one-third a tablespoon of butter and three tablespoons of butter per day, Live Science reports. For the purposes of the study, they called one tablespoon of butter a daily serving. Researchers found that eating butter was in no way associated with a risk of stroke or heart disease and reduced the risk of type 2 diabetes by 4%.
“Hallelujah,” Gizmodo responds to the study, pointing out that warnings about the dangers of butter have been around since the 1970s. But that doesn’t mean it’s time to eat an entire butter sculpture. Researchers say that while butter may actually be healthier than sugars and starches, it’s probably still worse for you than olive oil or some margarines. “Overall, our results suggest that butter should neither be demonized nor considered ‘back’ as a route to good health,” researcher Dariush Mozaffarian says in a press release. Researchers did find that eating butter led to a 1% higher risk of death, though they chalk that up to the fact that “people who eat more butter generally have worse diets and lifestyles.” (This guy found edible butter dating back to Jesus.)
Two things…..one, butter is so much better in cooking than margarine and two, I would never apologize to that racist cow Deen……
Now start your holiday…..cook something with butter and eat your fool head off…..have some fun……
Toast-Butter-Marmite…
Yum…the Best!
While I agree that butter is probably better for you than some butter alternatives (margarine, oils), sticking to one spoon of butter a day is damn near impossible. Most people use that much on their morning toast. Baked goods and other processed foods are loaded with butter. The average American probably eats at least 10X the recommended intake of butter.
And thanks to this study, butter consumption will probably double because everybody just takes the headline and runs with it.
I eat lots of butter….but I refuse to use the other crap….
The other crap probably is worse of you. But “lots of butter”? The study said ONE spoon a day, not one container a day!
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep “Clear!” Thudump…..Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep…….”Okay, let’s call it…2:15 PM.”
The other is one molecule away from being a rubber raft….
Mmmm… the picture and the rest stimulated my cooking gene, & I thought up a yummy recipe to use butter & tomatoes…. with crawdads…
Using your favorite recipe for crab cakes, replace the crab with crawdads. Cut the tomatoes in half, & scoop out enough to place an ounce or so of the crawdad mixture in it. Bake it at about 375 ‘until done’… No doubt there will be some butter in the crab cake recipe, but, my thought calls for drizzling clarified butter over the top of the tomato halves a few minutes before done, to brown & flavor the tops….
Serve hot or cold, too, I would think….
Enjoy the holiday….
gigoid
My daughter would like it but I do not do any form of seafood….have some fun….chuq
I never went the no butter route. In my family, like in Paula’s, most recipes begin with; “Start with a pound of butter.” Tee Hee……..dru
Me too…my family even made their own when others were pushing Parkay….chuq