Healthy adults should limit their saturated fat intake to no more than 10% of total calories. The self-experimentation described in books was mostly (or entirely) done as part of a job. But in my past I have tried a few different diets. Notice that the end result in either scenario – or in any variation – of your “final solution” to the domesticated cattle “problem” is still the death of all the cows that were on the farms in the first place. I collected this data outside of a lab using cheap equipment (a Thinkpad laptop running Windows XP). On a dairy farm they are killed off after just 4-5 years when they become commercially unviable. I personally believe any unnecessary suffering is unacceptable. Ok, not that extreme, but yes it appears the huge dose of vitamins and minerals in the liver and milk are replenishing what I squandered away during the decade that I was brainwashed into drinking soy milk and eating high carbs only. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprophagia#Vertebrates. You have just determined that people won’t be consuming the meat nor drink the milk before they go. A: Of course not. I collected and analyzed the data with R (free). Then “dessert” is more milk… At this point cold milk tastes as sweet as ice cream to me. I didn’t want to revisit the points of contention I stated “because let’s face it, we’ve done that” (haven’t I already said that? “Lactose intolerance”? Nevertheless, here’s my stand: I have no fear of the naturally-occurring levels of cholesterol in me, no matter the type: High Density Lipo-protein….Low Density Lipo-protein… due to my diet of meat and dairy. Both my uncles and my father. per person per year = 13 lbs. An experiment that compares 60 g/day and 0 g/day probably varies many things besides butter consumption (e.g., preparing the butter to eat it). Let’s oppose and stop mistreatment of animals in these “factory farms” and instead support those farmers that are humane. Self-experimentation made this study much easier. I assume it reflects overall brain function. Yes, perhaps millions of farmers would go bankrupt with some reactions similar to the stock market crash of 1929 but for the purposes of this examination that isn’t a concern for us. Butter is a great source of fuel for our bodies, rich in bioactive compounds, and an extremely cost-efficient source of nutrition. For cheese, I eat about 3-4 slices of cheddar cheese per day. A: “Artificial insemination, routine in the dairy industry, is a terribly invasive and stressful procedure.” But if you take away artificial insemination then farmers will have no way to sustain or multiply their herds and all cattle-keeping and dairying will have to disappear! Midday snacking is more (cold) milk if I’m in the vicinity of the fridge. What about the other colder, darker months of the year? Pinning animals and inseminating them against their will is tantamount to rape wouldn’t you agree? I’ll leave you to check that). Dairy cows live vastly shorted lives (just 25%); they are routinely slaughtered when they become unproductive. Trying to compare the natural occurrence of infant/parent separation in the wild, with the routine systematic premeditated forced separation of millions and millions of new-born and infant offspring from their mothers on farms, seems a pretty weak argument. I was alive when the great advice was to each high-carb. 2. I assume something that improves brain function will make me faster at arithmetic. At any rate I totally disagree with you. I did this experiment in Beijing. 3. How Much Peanut Butter per Day Is Healthy? In the 1960s my friend and co-author Saul Sternberg, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, introduced better-designed reaction-time experiments to study cognition. But when I ride my mountain bike and jump up and down curbs or surf or ski or fly aerobatics, Like you I wasn’t brought up vegan. However, you should also be aware of hidden saturated fats in other areas of your diet that may increase … What exactly do you think a ‘humane’ farm is anyway? Quoting the diets of 18th century sailors as proof of the health benefits of butter is laughable. I wonder…do you look like the Maasai? I don’t plan on trying to develop scurvy to find out. and they too, like the Spanish have high blood cholesterol, long lives and among the lowest rates of CVD. If you’re worried about eating too much butter and negative health consequences from butter, you have nothing to fear. But the article isn’t sure what a “Mediterranean Diet” is, saying: “There isn’t one exact Mediterranean diet, as this eating style takes can [sic] incorporate the different foods, eating patterns, and lifestyles in multiple countries that border the Mediterranean Sea.”. It is a rich source of the mineral magnesium. Anonymous: These no such thing as too much butter, lol! (31)”, So, “similar rates of breast cancer in women eating a low-fat diet and in those eating a “regular” diet. What someone has told you or what nature develops and regulates within you as a healthy individual? I think we will look back on the 20th century as an example of what happens when take food advice to the extreme – fat is a necessary part of a healthy diet, You know Dairy Guy that my main objection relates to the exploitation and undeniable cruelty that is routine in animal farming. The environmental harm caused by animal farming is well documented and scientifically accepted. Pretending otherwise is foolish. Or – are you saying that if people knew “what really happens” on factory farms that rather than forcing the farms to change they would instead accept empty store shelves and just go vegan? If doing what animals do is “natural” and correct will you be eating some poop today? On a 2,000 calorie diet, this equates to 11–13 g of saturated fat per day. Butter is actually a superfood and provides your body with an array of health-enhancing, bioactive compounds. Why should people in Sweden be told they need foods they didn’t evolve on? I think it’s that last line that really spells it out. I don’t think anyone can say that butter (or dairy) is bad for you physical health. B: The ignorance displayed by your unintelligent reply is impressive. That’s just ridiculous. Utter tosh. DG does at least try to use some scientific and historical info to support his views. THC is in your entire batch of butter or oil. They don’t actually build anything… did you not know that? A tablespoon of almond butter delivers 48.5 mg of the stuff, which is about 12% of what your daily intake should be. Let’s oppose and stop mistreatment of animals in these “factory farms” and instead support those farmers that are humane. Comparing the 30 g/day results with the combination of earlier and later 60 g/day results, t = 6, p = 0.000001. Here are the main results: The graph shows that when I switched to 30 g/day, I became slower. I want a clean Earth as much as anyone because I want the milk I drink to come from cows who in turn had clean air and water and nutritious grass to eat. This above appears incriminatory of saturated animal fat contributing to breast cancer. Most other animals, I read, can make the Vitamin C they need. In the United States, it’s estimated that butter consumption is around 550,000 tons per year. People ate a lot of butter in the past. You’ll never come close to shutting down the abusive industry – because according to you people won’t stand for it. Ghee, also known as clarified butter or anhydrous milk fat, is prepared by heating butter or cream to just over 100°C to remove water content by boiling and evaporation. What I will fight to expose is liars, deniers and those who make false claims to further their own cause; those who distort the truth and say things which are not proven or substantiated. Do you have “absolutely no need” for cow’s milk? It was doable and not particularly unpleasant but I made the mistake of not including any organ meat at all. And once as week a half pound of grass-fed liver “boiled” in a couple ounces of butter. Farms and herds got proportionately larger and meat, milk and cheese was bought, sold and bartered for as markets were established. That plant matter that those burping herbivores are eating would have decayed from some other process that would have produced equal amounts of CO2 and those plants being devoured makes way for new plants to grow which will then again absorb equal amounts of CO2 and give off O2. In the case of a rapid reduction in demand this number of cows remaining on the farm would be huge, if “overnight”, then 100% of the stock on hand would remain unsold, unmilked (for human consumption) and unutilized on Day One. But if calling me an “idiot” somehow makes you feel big, you go for it. New to Quantified Self? Do some research before trying to defend the indefensible. The food we avoided was the food essential to good nutrition. Thousands of scientists are frantically working on climate change as we speak, and the data shows animal farming is a very real part of the problem. But is that reality? I definitely agree that processed meats and sugar are unhealthy, as I noted in my first two paragraphs above. If you want to eat better and still eat butter, you may need to make some food sacrifices to fit it in. Everything I need must be in the milk, butter, cheese, liver and meat that I eat. Then you’ll calculate how many mgs. Why is it the longest lived people on Earth with the fewest cardiovascular problems also have the highest blood serum cholesterol? Alvin – great thoughts, really enjoyed reading. …and I think I am being generous to the “butter is good” brigade DO SOME RESEARCH… – I have …BEFORE YOU START MOCKING DAIRY FARMERS – Behave!! But you know that right? There is a mountain of fact-based evidence out there to support this. Two years ago I discovered that butter — more precisely, substitution of butter for pork fat — made me... Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, director of research at the Open Humans project, shares an overview of TwArχiv, his web application that allows users to explore and analyze their own Twitter archive in detail. However, if you eat peanut butter every day, you may just be fighting back against the condition already, according to certified nutritionist Emily Ziedman. Next paragraph says this: “The Women’s Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial, which was specifically designed to examine the effect of a low-fat diet on the development of breast cancer, showed similar rates of breast cancer in women eating a low-fat diet and in those eating a “regular” diet. Life is too short for me to try and educate you on this. Ahhh… and within a couple days, the innards are happy, I’m happy and the output is back to perfection. Don’t you remember California dairyman Mark McAfee who you called “dumb Mark”? Remembering that butter helps with hunger and satiety, you cannot discounts butter’s assistance in reducing mutinies.. lol, One of the greatest threats to a sailor’s life was SCURVY, not butter deficiency!! in their billions, for human exploitation. Couldn’t really find out how they met the supposed requirement for Vitamin C. 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