Ban Butter To Save Our Hearts Says Dr. Shyam Kolvekar

Telegraph.co.uk had an article yesterday that absolutely disgusted me.  I am not disgusted at them, but at the doctor they are referring too, who seems incredibly caught up in the system of lies about health.  A leading heart surgeon Dr. Shyam Kolvekar is now claiming that people eat way too much saturated fat, and that butter should be banned.  Now this is all talk but if people actually got on this bandwagon and if something like this were to happen then people will get even more sick and will have even more weight problems then they already do.  Here are the quotes that the doctor states from the original article.

“It’s because most kids start the day with some toast and butter, it’s a staple of breakfast, but not very good for you. Porridge is a much better alternative, much better than sausage and eggs which are also high in fat.

“I am also seeing lots of patients who are incredibly young. You associate heart problems with people in their 50s and 60s but I am seeing people as young as 30.

“By adjusting your diet by replacing butter with a healthy spread or margarine is a very simple thing to do and makes a whole world of difference.”

“By banning butter and replacing it with a healthy spread the average daily fat intake would be reduced by 8g – that’s 40 per cent of a women’s GDA – Guideline Daily Amount. The GDA for a woman is 20g and for a man it’s 30g.”

“People should also avoid any foods that are solid at room temperature like cheese and red meat. And if you can’t survive without red meat then make sure you cut all the fat off it.

“This would save thousands of lives each year and help to protect them from cardiovascular disease – the UK’s biggest killer.

“By the time I see people it’s usually too late, but the frustrating thing is that often the need for heart surgery could have been prevented by following a healthier, lower sat fat diet.

“A great example is North Karelia in Finland, where there has been an 82 per cent reduction in heart disease amongst men over the last 40 years, from 1969 to 2002.”

“For example, two slices of buttered toast and a full fat latte contains 16.1g of saturated fat, so that’s already 80 per cent of the Guideline Daily Amount GDA for a woman at breakfast.

“However, just by swapping butter for a low fat spread and using 1 per cent milk you make a 92 per cent reduction.”

People that practice ignorance only serve in society to further harm humanity when they proclaim things like this.  Just to get the record straight, Finland found that their most cardiovascular disease prone regions had the lowest Iodine levels, so what did they do?  Finland added Iodine to their animal feeds and that is why they have substantially lowered their heart disease over the last 50 years, not because they banned butter or saturated fats.  Amongst many other things that it does in the body, Iodine stops cholesterol from accumulating, stopping the problem right in the beginning. 

Kids eat the “staple” breakfast with toast and butter because it is good for you and it always has been.  Grains have many nutrients in them and so does butter.  Ultimately you want to only eat grains that are properly soaked to neutralize the toxins and inhibitors build into the seeds coating, and you would want to use butter that has been made from raw pastured fed milk.  This is how it used to be before pasteurized milk and non soaked grains became common in society.  I am not going to get into this for now but regardless of what you think, butter and toast is still very good for you even today.  Instead of using processed vegetable oils, one would be wise to look at research from the early 1900s.

There is one problem with eliminating saturated fats in favor of processed oils and margarine, these are highly processed.  Because of this the vegetable oils are extremely toxic to the body, void of nutrients, and full of synthetic vitamins which have to be added back creating more toxicity.  These products are what cause heart disease, not butter and saturated fats.  Dig deep enough and you will eventually find that it is proven that higher saturated fat and monounsaturated fat intake reduces cholesterol and weight. 

Saturated fats and monounsaturated fats are what your cells need to primarily be made up of to function properly, otherwise they loose their integrity.  Polyunsaturated oils are extremely rancid by the time you get them, which cause massive free radical damage to the body.  People then cook with them, which creates even more free radicals and damage to the oil which then goes into your body.  This might not be of much initial concern except when you have all of the damage from consuming them over long periods of time, and when you take into consideration that people are highly deficient in even the most basic components and antioxidants that the body craves.  This is an absolute recipe for disaster, and it is happening in everyone right now unless you don’t fall for the lies.

People as young as 30 are getting heart disease because their whole life has consisted of eating mostly processed foods and not what are called “whole” foods.  Everything that your great grandma ate is right around what you should be eating.  Raw milk and dairy products are whole foods, raw honey and cane sugar are whole foods, all meats with the fat included that are from pastured fed animals are whole foods and grains, nuts and legumes that are properly soaked are whole foods.  Hamburger helper meals, cereal, energy drinks, protein bars, microwave dinners, fast food, artificial sweeteners and “instant” anything is not a whole food and most of the time are toxic in more than 1 way to your body. 

By banning butter from the diet, even more “bad” fats would get into the food supply and we would be lacking the “good” fats even more so.  8g per day of good saturated fat would be replaced with bad polyunsaturated fat, this is not going to help anyone.  Disease rates would go up as they have been doing so, not down, and of course it would take them years maybe even decades to realize that butter and saturated fat wasn’t the reason that disease rates were high in the first place.  High polyunsaturated fat intake has only been happening in the later half of this last century.  Before this we were looking at a total of 4% of fats in the diet being polyunsaturated.  Now we are looking at 20% and it is growing.

The Dr. claims that cheese and red meat should be avoided, and I agree with that but not because of his conclusions.  Cheese and red meat are very good for you, and provide a lot of nutrients, granted only that they are quality products.  The meat needs to include the fat and needs to come from grass fed animals, not vegetarian fed.  The fats in meat contain fat soluble vitamins A and D, which are needed in the body for proper mineral assimilation.  Not getting these is a disaster waiting to happen, and it is starting to happen in most people this very day.  There is a massive Vitamin A and D deficiency going on, and we are about to disease get much worse if this doesn’t turn around.  The dairy needs to be raw if at all possible, non-homogenized, and needs to be from grass fed animals.  These version of meat and dairy are extremely good for you.  Typical dairy is ultra pasteurized and homogenized which makes a completely different food from what nature intended.  Red meats are full of synthetic chemicals, came from poor/stressful living conditions and the animals are slaughtered while sick and doped up hormones.

Most people choose to follow ignorance but the truth is that you will not be healthy if you eat crap foods, believe it and come to terms with it and start changing your diet and your life today.

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