For millennia, people around the globe have prized butter for its health benefits.

So how did butter become a villain in the quest for good health?



At the turn of our century, heart disease in America was rare. By 1960, it was our number one killer. Yet during the same time period, butter consumption had decreased - from eighteen pounds per person per year, to four.4



And why would I be so insistent that you eat butter? Take a look at the long list of the benefits you receive when you include it in your diet:

Butter is rich in the most easily absorbable form of Vitamin A necessary for thyroid and adrenal health.

Contains lauric acid, important in treating fungal infections and candida.

Contains lecithin, essential for cholesterol metabolism.

Contains anti-oxidants that protect against free radical damage.

Has anti-oxidants that protect against weakening arteries.

Is a great source of Vitamins E and K.

Is a very rich source of the vital mineral selenium.

Saturated fats in butter have strong anti-tumor and anti-cancer properties.

Butter contains conjugated linoleic acid, which is a potent anti-cancer agent, muscle builder, and immunity booster

Vitamin D found in butter is essential to absorption of calcium.

Protects against tooth decay.

Is your only source of an anti-stiffness factor, which protects against calcification of the joints.

Anti-stiffness factor in butter also prevents hardening of the arteries, cataracts, and calcification of the pineal gland.

Is a source of Activator X, which helps your body absorb minerals.

Is a source of iodine in highly absorbable form.

May promote fertility in women.9
Is a source of quick energy, and is not stored in our bodies adipose tissue.

Cholesterol found in butterfat is essential to children's brain and nervous system development.

Contains Arachidonic Acid (AA) which plays a role in brain function and is a vital component of cell membranes.

Protects against gastrointestinal infections in the very young or the elderly.

http://www.bodyecology.com/07/...s_of_real_butter.php

Thank you for the post Sue.

Butter actually protects us against many dideases.

I have cut it out lately, given all the bad reports it has received, but I think that I will go back and add a little bit of butter again to my diet. I love it on fresh bread, and a bit added to some of my veggies.

Here is another website that you might like to look at:

http://www.westonaprice.org/foodfeatures/butter.html

Thank you Sue.

I grew up on a lot of butter in France, but since coming to this continent I have avoided it because of all the bad publicity that it has received.

I would like to have some butter on my fresh bread and croissants, which I am also supposed to avoid.

Sincerely,
Gisele

Thank you Sue.

My family did not use butter when I grew up, but I have learned to like a bit on my bread when I came to Canada, especially the French part, where a lot of butter is used in all types of cooking.

I also have friends from India that use a lot of butter called Ghee, which is a special process, in their cooking, and they seem to be very healthy and doing well.

The nutritional facts of butter that you have listed are very interesting.

Love,
yoko

Dear Sue, thank you from my heart for this wonderful contribution.
My Grandmother made butter on her own with the cream over the fresh milk we bought. I remember the incredible flavor of that butter, almost impossible to find nowadays. But German and Swiss butter are still very good.
I have always eaten butter, but here in Italy I have often been criticized for eating butter, because here they think olive oil is much healthier.
I had reduced my breakfast butterbread to twice a week (usually SAturday and Sunday when I had more time to prepare the breakfast).
No doubt I love it and I think my body knows that it is good for it.
Lately I almost felt guilty because of eating butter. Being overweight, everybody thought (and said) that I should not eat any.
Reading the list of benefits makes me just so happy. Thank you for this gift, dear Sue!
Top pleasure for me is toast bread with butter and honey ........ mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
Tomorrow morning I will enjoy my butter even more than usual thanks to your information. Truly precious.

Love and hugs.
Butter Margherita

That's Floralp Swiss Butter!

Thank you Sue for the post.
We did not grow up with butter, but I have started to use some on my bread, once in a while, and it is really good. Like yoko, I have Indian friends who eat a lot of butter and they are very slim and healthy. My European friends eat butter as well, so I am happy to read this information about the benefits of butter.

Love,
Vicky

Thank you everyone for your replies.

Enjoy your butter Margherita.
I enjoy it as well on the weekends, especially on hot croissants, yummmmmm

It is good to know that butter contains such a vast number of important ingredients.

Love,
Sue