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Butter a trans fat????

NoCrbs4Me said:
Natural trans fats from animals are fine.
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Interesting, I did a bit more digging and its only the UK article which includes animal fats. The WHO, among others, refers to artificial and industrially made trans fats as harmful.

another one of those 30 years of telling us something is good when it isnt.
 
lucylocket61 said:
https://www.theguardian.com/science...ats-must-be-removed-from-food-supply-who-says

according to this article, naturally occurring fats in dairy products, including butter, are transfats. Now, I thought a trans fat was made from vegetable oils. As the article right?
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No butter is not solely a trans fat however it does contain a little trans fat (as probably do most other fatty foods).
Did you read the article?

"The WHO is saying that trans fats should be limited to less than 1% of food energy, which it equates to a maximum of 2.2g of trans fats in a diet of 2,000 calories a day.

To get 2.2g of trans fatty acids, you would have to eat 150g of 30% saturated fat cheese or 50g of butter. “How many people eat 50g of butter?” asked Branca. “You can have your cheese, your butter or your litre of milk. That is fine.”

Not sure even I eat 50g of butter a day even with my salt sprinkle on a slice habit..not sureI would personally go for the litre of milk tho..
 
Hey @lucylocket61 I haven't read the article, so I am presuming some things here....! Real butter is not a transfat!! Having said that, Google search from Mayo Clinic, American Heart Association, etc. do state that there are naturally occurring trans fats in foods like beef, lamb and butter but there have not been sufficient studies done to determine if they have the same bad effect on humans as the processed trans fats used for industrial baking, frying and so forth. The amounts in naturally occurring trans fats seem to be very small. It seems there is always someone trying to ruin our enjoyment of food:) For this old gal, I shall continue to enjoy my butter, full fat cheeses and full fat creams!! Cheere/L
 
I am going to assume the above replies cross posted with my follow up about how we know there is nothing wrong with animal fats, but the way the wording is given in the reporters words in the article is negative (again) towards animal fats, putting them in the same basket as industrial trans fats.
 
lucylocket61 said:
I agree. My point is that when did saturated fat become trans fat? for years it hasnt been considered a trans fat, and now it has had a negative name change.
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Butter is not a single type of fat but a mixture of fats including both saturated and unsaturated fats (present in something like a 2:1 ratio).
http://web.pdx.edu/~wamserc/C336S12/fat.pdf

Some of the unsaturated fats in butter are naturally occurring trans fats, again this is not a single type of fat but a mixture of fats. The proportions of the different trans fats found in butter differ from the proportions found in industrially hydrogenated fats https://www.dairynutrition.ca/nutrients-in-milk-products/fat/natural-trans-fats The American Heart Association takes the view that that there have not been sufficient studies to find out whether the naturally occurring trans fats are as bad for health as manufactured trans fats.
https://healthyforgood.heart.org/eat-smart/articles/trans-fat

In any case, the proportion of trans fats in butter is very small and you would have to eat a lot of butter to exceed the recommended daily limit.
 
lucylocket61 said:
I am going to assume the above replies cross posted with my follow up about how we know there is nothing wrong with animal fats, but the way the wording is given in the reporters words in the article is negative (again) towards animal fats, putting them in the same basket as industrial trans fats.
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Yes, the article says that WHO believes that both artificial trans fats in processed food and natural trans fats in animal derived food are equally harmful. Vegan propaganda?
 
They told me to eat brown rice, pasta, pulses and all fruits and diet products lean meat with no fat. I was never a big sweet eater either..I used to eat Flora lowering cholesterol spread. I never ate butter for years,30 years I think...and yet I ended up with Pre-diabetes levels. I had a heart attack 14 years ago as some may know by now, but I did smoke back then. Would I have had the heart attack if I had been on a low carb diet and smoked, not sure. All I know is regarding today. I ate what I thought was a healthy diet for 14 years since the heart attack and I ended up with a glucose problem. I am going to keep eating butter and the fat off my meat.
 
derry60 said:
They told me to eat brown rice, pasta, pulses and all fruits and diet products lean meat with no fat. I was never a big sweet eater either..I used to eat Flora lowering cholesterol spread. I never ate butter for years,30 years I think...and yet I ended up with Pre-diabetes levels. I had a heart attack 14 years ago as some may know by now, but I did smoke back then. Would I have had the heart attack if I had been on a low carb diet and smoked, not sure. All I know is regarding today. I ate what I thought was a healthy diet for 14 years since the heart attack and I ended up with a glucose problem. I am going to keep eating butter and the fat off my meat.
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Iagree. Thirty or forty years of their guidelines and their industry led 'research' has done what for us? Led us to an epidemic of obesity and metabolic syndrome. And it is still going on, with Big Pharma skewing data and Big Food lobbying and a whole raft of conflict of interests at every level. I could spit, I really could.
 
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