Americans Are Still Tricked by The Biggest Fib in Food History.

I made this because butter is way too divisive. It's time for the full story.

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🟣Timestamps:
0:00 Butter: Friend or foe?
0:40 Lower your shoulders
1:14 This article changed it all
4:21 My Opinion
5:15 The saturated fat rumor
6:44 One of the most controversial studies of all time
8:09 The problem with the study
9:55 The truth about sat fat and butter
10:55 The big butter comparison
12:48 The advice we got
13:45 Why do we do put these oils in our food?
14:23 The big takeaway

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[tomclemans]

Around 1960, my grandfather - 8th grade education, career carpenter - told me that someday scientists would discover that butter was a far more healthy food than margarine, and that milk and butter from the family cow were more healthy than from a commercial dairy. Grandpa, you were right! :)

[MitchJohnson]

I grew up in a "no saturated fats, salt is terrible for you" household. When I moved out on my own I switched to butter and real olive oil. Best decision of my life

[shawnbottom]

The "big fat lie" resulted in "lite" salad dressings where the fat basically got replaced with SUGAR.

[stanleydenning]

I was raised on margarine. Butter was reserved for special occasions like Thanksgiving and Christmas. I was told that butter was bad for me. My cholesterol levels were high. I even had a stroke because of high cholesterol. I stopped using margarine and ate only real butter. now. My cholesterol levels have dropped dramatically. I think margarine is pioson.

[blackflyingfox]

It's easier to trick someone than it is to convince someone that they were tricked.

[carolynlarke]

My granny was a product of hard times. She always had a jar of lard or bacon fat she used to cook or bake. She saved everything and reused everything until it was worn out. She lived to be 97 and taught me how to get through hard times. She never bought into the low fat craze. Thing is that almost all of her veg and meat was from local butchers and her own little veg garden. She made wine and tomato sauces, baked bread and cakes for us and she avoided all food "products" whose ingredients were from "chemistry class". If she couldn't ID something on a label it wasn't proper food. I think she was right.

Also, you are fantastic.

[SFGal]

There was a sugar study in 1960s conducted by Harvard FUNDED by sugar industry. Misled us that sugar was fine and that fat was the enemy. That was catastrophic.

[patrickwade]

3 years ago I had heart surgery to fix a birth defect. I was 62, and it took that long for the defect to become a problem that finally got identified. During my recovery period I attended cardiac rehab with several other people. Part of it was “education “. I couldn’t believe how behind the times it was. No fat, butter, red meat, even avocados were thrown under the bus. I kinda became a thorn in their education. The nutritionist finally started coming around after I kept showing him numerous articles showing how things had evolved. This was at a major hospital.

[carenann]

in England there were two tv presenter chefs known as Two Fat Ladies. there were "big" on butter, and both were quite larges, when one passed away, she told her partner "Make sure they know it wasnt' the butter" because it was the cigarettes that got her.

[stevenbass]

As a side note, remember the egg debate? Every few months some study would come out for or against eating eggs. Turns out that eggs are a true health food.

[Trogodyte]

My family was always one of those “everything in moderation” families. From the time I was tiny I can remember my grandparents telling me they would NEVER quit cooking with butter, because the body needs some fats of all types to function properly. Now, decades later, I think they might have been far smarter than most.

[Mrus-jorh]

As a retired scientist, I feel you are one of the better science explainers I have encountered on YouTube. What you do is not easy.

[bgrigg]

Demonizing healthy food is a terrible crime against humanity.

[caroljo]

I'm 70. I struggled with my weight for many years. At one point I was 186 lbs. (I'm 5'2") My son became an excellent cook, and went to school at a culinary academy. He uses butter generously, and convinced me to stop drinking low-fat milk, replacing it with whole milk. It tastes better. And now I'm down to 110 lbs, which is what I weighed in high school.

[DaxVerus]

Its wild to think that drinking water, getting sleep, and not over working yourself really do solve 90% of long term bodily problems.

[bigdaddy]

My 98 year old late Grandfather ate 2 eggs over easy fried in butter and bacon fat, 2-3 slices of bacon and 2 fig newtons for breakfast every single morning. He worked a farm into his late 70's before he retired (by which I mean he only kept the chickens, a couple milk cows, and a few beef cattle so he had to put in less hay. He finally fully retired in his mid 80's. He lived into his later 90's before he required any assistance outside occasional help from his grandsons on summer visits (1-3 days).

[liserjones]

My grandmother was born in 1927 and died at 96.. She knew where all of her food came from, she grew up on butter, full milk, meat, eggs and she had a small allotment in her garden. She also walked everywhere and despite the horrors of the ww2 she had a wonderful life - never stressed, never nasty and always smiling!

[unclestnky]

When I was about 8, my mom switched to margarine from butter because of what the TV said. I could instantly tell the difference, and in my kid mind I thought that something bad happened to butter. So I stopped eating it. Then, when I was older, I found out what happened. I switched back to butter. My grandfather cooked everything in butter and bacon grease, and he lived to be 92.

[garyhull]

Grew up on butter, bacon, pancakes, home made bread, all the "bad" stuff. My mother had bacon, fried eggs, toast, with BUTTER almost every morning. And it finally took her out when she was 15 months shy of her 100 birthday! If that food was as bad as they said, she would have been gone long before that.

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Sure is crazy that several decades ago, everyone consumed way more meat, way more butter, and way less sugar, and almost no one was fat.