Home / Blog / The 20 Health Benefits of Real Butter The 20 Health Benefits of Real Butter Posted July 5, 2007. There have been 52 comments 308 Print 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. 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 1970s, 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.7For more information on why you should avoid all processed oils read Why the Processing of Consumable Oils Has Devastated Americas 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 childrens 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 babys 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? Dont 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! Youll 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 dont 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 youll 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 whats more, its a heart-healthy, super-slimming, anti-aging way of life, which is crucial to your health as a whole. Sources: History of Butter dairygoodness.ca/en/consumers/products/butter/history-of-butter.htm Butter from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter#Worldwide Princely Packets of Golden Health webexhibits.org/butter/ref/MiltonEParker.pdf Why Butter is Better westonaprice.org/foodfeatures/butter.html The Soft Science of Dietary Fat, Science Magazine, March 2001 second-opinions.co.uk/taubes.html#linktop Ibid Polyunsaturated Oils Increase Cancer Risk second-opinions.co.uk/fats_and_cancer.html From The Skinny on Fats westonaprice.org/knowyourfats/skinny.html and Why Butter is Better westonaprice.org/foodfeatures/butter.html Fertility Awareness, Food, and Night-lighting westonaprice.org/women/fertility.html and High Fat Dairy May Boost Fertility nutraingredients/news/printnewsbis.asp?id=74590 Post Categories: By Donna Gates Candida Probiotics 52 Comments Joey Does Kerrygold count as real butter? I know its made from grass fed cows. Posted on Aug 31 at 5:41 pm Michael I find all of this butter talk quite interesting. While I think this type of silver bullet talk is a bunch of hogwash, I do think of the Inuit people of the early 1900s as documented in Nanook of the North who consumed nearly all calories from fat, and who had very little occurrence of cardiovascular disease. However, I do find the grass fed notion to be a bit overdone.... The same way, I find organic to be overdone. Its all just marketing. To who ever said, Mad Cow disease cannot occur in the open prairie, I would disagree. In the US, it is more likely for a grass fed cow to get mad cow disease than otherwise because of the lack of control over what the cattle are eating. If a cow dies, in the grass grazing area the possibility of contamination exists. That is just the way it is. For the same reason, you are more likely to get Creutzfeldt Jacobs disease (this is what Mad Cow is called when it Manifests into humans) from wild game i.e: Elk, Deer, Antelope etc. Trust me, my Dad died from this stuff, so I have read just about all there is to read about it. With that, I do highly doubt milk products would carry this. I am not trying to deter eating grass fed products, and think the comments about Mad Cow disease are a complete Red Herring in this argument. I just had to set that record straight. Also, life expectancies and nutrition on the whole are significantly better than they have ever been. Life expectancies rise can primarily be attributed to the rise soap/hygiene ( just look to places in Africa where lack of hygiene kills more people than HIV/AIDS), and the ability to intake more calories (again looking to under developed places in the world where we see malnutrition as a major cause of death). Another marker of adequate nutrition is the rise in western nations average height. Again sorry to get off track, but some of the arguments here are just that, completely bonkers. Butter may be good, may be bad. More than likely it is just okay, and anything you hear otherwise is a rebranding effort by the dairy industry. Posted on Aug 7 at 7:52 am Phyllis Test for yourself- Rub your hands with margarine...now wash it off! It takes quite a bit of soap and hot water. Then rub butter over your hands and wash it off. Takes a fraction of the soap...and less time....then think about what it does to your arteries! Same thing! Posted on Jul 26 at 2:47 pm linda i have always loved butter in the 80es i was told it very bad for you so i started to use a margerine which didnt taste bad but it wasnt butter so i went back to butter and have been eating it ever since.i never told anyone cause i didt want to hear what a big mistake i was making.now i find that it was good all along .im so happy Posted on Jun 20 at 4:53 pm GM It should be noted that the Lyon Heart study referred to above NEVER mentions ANYTHING about butter being one of the worst substances for human consumption. If you actually read the study, you will see that none of the evidence is really that reliable. From the Lyon Heart Study -- circ.ahajournals.org/content/103/13/1823.full Although these results are quite impressive, there are methodological limitations that raise questions about the true impact of this diet on the risk of recurrent heart disease and related measures. Specifically, the baseline diet was only assessed in the experimental group at the beginning of the study, and the diet of the control group at baseline was presumed to be comparable. Moreover, nutrient intake in the control group was only assessed at the conclusion of the study so the dietary behavior of these subjects would not be influenced. Thus, it is not clear whether any dietary changes were made by the control group. In addition, dietary data are reported for only 83 (of 303 randomized into the study) and 144 (of 302 randomized into the study) subjects in the control and experimental groups, respectively. With only 30% of the total control cohort and
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