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I have always avoided 'spreads' which looked to be full of artificial rubbish to me preferring instead to stick to eating small amounts of butter (and olive oil for cooking).
It seems a Cardiologist is now saying the same thing..
Butter, cheese and even red meat are not as bad for the heart as has been maintained, a cardiologist has said in a leading medical journal, adding that it is time to "bust the myth" of saturated fat.
Aseem Malhotra, interventional cardiology specialist registrar at Croydon University hospital, London, also argues that statins have been over-prescribed because of the government's obsession with lowering cholesterol in an attempt to reduce heart disease – and that the side-effects outweigh the benefits for millions of people who take them every day. http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandst...art-specialist
and even the The Nursing times' has a headline..
''Saturated fat good for you, expert claims''
23 October, 2013 | By The Press Association.
I saw this headlined in the Telegraph this morning and meant to buy the paper to have a read - but been chasing my tail for a couple of days and I forgot to buy it.
I can't say I'm surprised at the findings though - it seems to be a regular pattern now: don't eat this/do that because it's bad for you; (ten years later) we've changed our minds, it's actually really good for you.
Hi there - I have long held the opinion that if it's natural, it's probably okay; if it's been artificially manufactured, it probably isn't - but who knows nowadays
Thanks for the links Meg, we only have butter too.
I did buy the 'other' stuff years ago but we dislike it.
Quite reassuring to see it in black and white.
I am fed up of that THEY say, I eat what I like and am still fit and
healthy as I refuse to get wrinkles on what other people think.
Please yourself is what I say. Butter forever.