Is Butter Healthy?

Butter has been wrongfully accused of being unhealthy for a long time thanks to poor science and shady goings-on.

Before the idiocy and subterfuge, butter was rightly regarded as a healthy and nourishing food. Unlike most of the vegetable oil products on the market today, including canola oil, butter has a long history of safe use and enjoyment by humans. Is Butter Healthy? Oh Yes! 1. Source of the Critical-for-Health Vitamins A, D and K Vitamins A, D and K are three of the most beneficial vitamins for the human body. They work together. Each one is needed to help to utilize and balance the other. Issues of toxicity are not a problem if they are consumed together in natural foods like butter. And you can't find this potent trio in plant foods/oils. Butter that comes from naturally raised, 100% pasture-fed animals, has been found to have higher levels of these crucial vitamins, particularly vitamin K, than butter made from the milk of feedlot animals. If 100% pasture fed butter is too expensive for you right now, or too hard to source, don't worry. Just get the best butter you can afford right now, with nothing more than salt and cream as ingredients, ideally, but a bit of added color isn't necessarily a big concern. You'll still get a fairly high level of nutrient value compared to what you get in most vegetable oils. 2. Nice Balance of Fatty Acids Butter, contrary to what many people have been lead to believe, is not super saturated. Approximately half of the fat in butter is a mix of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fat, mostly monounsaturated (about 30%). And the omega 6 to omega 3 ratio is quite good in the polyunsaturated portion, which is a plus. That said, there is no reason to fear the saturated fat in butter, particularly the special form of saturated fat that it contains: medium chain triglycerides. Sometimes referred to as "medium chain fatty acids", or simply MCT, this is an easy to digest fatty acid (particularly useful for people with digestive disorders) with notable health benefits. I recommend that you to Google to find out more about MCTs and how they benefit human health, and why butter is a good source. 3. Low in Lactose Due to the very low levels of lactose in butter, lactose intolerant people can usually tolerate butter very well. If not, they can consume butter in the form of good quality ghee. Unlike most of the vegetable oil on the market (including most of the certified organic, minimally processed vegetable oils) butter is a healthy and natural food with a long history of safe use by humans.