I broke the juice fast this morning. Here is today’s diet plan:
Breakfast: 1/2 grapefruit
Lunch: 4 oz shrimp (fried in butter with lemon juice and cayenne pepper), 4oz cauliflower (fried in coconut oil with garlic salt), and 4oz celery (raw)
Dinner: 4 oz chicken breast (marinated in lemon juice and soy sauce), 4 oz green beans (cayenne seasoned) and 4 oz cucumbers (marinated in apple cider vinegar, lemon juice, water, garlic and black pepper)
-James D. Brausch
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Hmmmm…not bad, but wouldn’t it be better to fry the shrimp in olive oil rather than butter? I personally try to avoid butter like the plague (well maybe not that much). There are also other good alternatives such as sesamin oil which is a lignan extracted from sesame seeds. Very good for weight loss and overall cardiovascular health.
Hi Steve,
Avoid anything you want. The science is very solid that you’ve been lied to about saturated fats.
In one study a group of people who had already suffered a heart attack were divided into three groups. One group was told to eat only polyunsaturated corn oil. The 2nd group was told to eat only monounsaturatued olive oil. A 3rd group was told to eat only animal fat.
The corn oil group had only 52% still living after only two years.
The olive oil group did a little better. 57% were still living after 2 years. I have olive oil on the pantry shelf. I don’t have any corn oil.
However, the animal fat group still had 75% living after two years.
That study was published in the British Medical Journal in 1965. The medical community has been consistently lying about animal fats causing cardiovascular disease for many, many years.
Eat your butter. It’s tasty and good for you. Olive oil is better than corn oil for heart health, but not as good as butter.
For even more interesting studies (including one performed just last year), take a look at some other fields where diet was used to treat things like alzheimers disease or parkinson’s disease both with an extremely high animal fat diet. No one dares to do studies on using high fat diets for weight loss because that would be too controversial. However, these other diseases are serious enough to warrant a high fat diet study and of course… side effects are often documented. Those side effects often include severe weight loss and extreme lowering of blood pressure, cholesterol and other cardiovascular related factors. They can get away with publishing side effects like this when studying brain diseases. Those side effects are real though.
The high fat diet used in the alzheimer’s study specifically included a lot of butter from cow milk.
Now, there is some potential problem with homogenizing milk. The studies are still conflicting on that issue. I don’t know the commercial process of making butter though and don’t know if homegenizing ever comes into play. I suspect it mirrors the process we would use at home where the cream is removed before homogenizing and agititated into butter. In any case even if homogenized… and if there is a problem with homogenizing milk lipids, one could still enjoy butter by clarifying it before use… to get to the massive benefits of only the butter fat (which is also the tasty part of butter).
I don’t worry about that too much since the science is all over the place. I do limit my intake of homogenized milk, but ignore that issue with all other milk products (if it even exists).
Remember that over 50% of the “consensus” is wrong. Otherwise America wouldn’t be getting fatter and fatter. That is happening because people believe crap like “butter is bad for you” and are switching to the more harmful margerine or polyunsaturated vegetable oils… among the other disinformation out there.
-James D. Brausch
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