Is Butter Really Back? What the Science Says
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2019-01-30

Is butter - and other saturated fats - bad for you or not?
Give people a single meal with butter, and you get a boost of inflammatory gene expression within just hours of consumption, significantly more than the same amount of fat in olive oil. You can randomize people to foods made with all sorts of different fats, and butter was shown to be the worst in terms of LDL cholesterol. The American Heart Association got so fed up with industry attempts to confuse people, they released a Presidential Advisory in 2017 to make it as clear as they could: “The main sources of saturated fat to be decreased [include] butter.”

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This is the second time I’ve address the obfuscation surrounding saturated fat. It’s actually part of an industry-wide scheme. Check out:
• The Saturated Fat Studies: Set Up to Fail (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-saturated-fat-studies-set-up-to-fail/)
• The Saturated Fat Studies: Buttering Up the Public (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-saturated-fat-studies-buttering-up-the-public/)

It reminds me of my series on cheese:
• Is Cheese Really Bad for You? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-cheese-really-bad-for-you)
• Is Cheese Healthy? Compared to What? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-cheese-healthy-compared-to-what)
• How the Dairy Industry Designs Misleading Studies (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-the-dairy-industry-designs-misleading-studies)

What about plant-based sources of saturated fat? See Coconut Oil and the Boost in HDL “Good” Cholesterol (http://www.nutritionfacts.org/topics/Coconut-Oil-and-the-Boost-in-HDL-Good-Cholesterol) and What About Coconuts, Coconut Milk, and Coconut Oil MCTs? (http://www.nutritionfacts.org/topics/What-About-Coconuts-Coconut-Milk-and-Coconut-Oil-MCTs).

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