After watching that video of RFK Jr explaining how fast food restaurants used to cook fries in beef tallow but then switched to oils, I decided to give it a shot. I used to always use vegetable oil for the fries or a little butter to grill the burgers on a griddle. This time I finally caved in and bought a few gallons of beef tallow. Hoo boy, was it amazing. I'm NEVER going back to vegetable oil, I'll only cook fries in tallow from here on out. The burgers were also the best I've ever made.
I wonder, what are the health benefits of tallow? 🤔
How is regular butter bad? I've read grass fed butter has higher nutrient and fatty acid content, but that doesn't make regular butter inherently bad. There was a new study released in March of this year that says eating less saturated fat doesn't lower a person's risk for heart disease.
Several cultures have been eating butter for thousands of years. Farmers started giving cows grains in the 1800's. If grain fed butter/milk was the problem, people would have been having cardiovascular issues back then, but it's become a more recent epidemic.
It's virtually impossible to find a specific passage in a 500 page book on Kindle and she cites a number of issues for everything she recommends. She didn't say butter was bad, it's on her list of good fats, she said grass fed is better. I suggest you read her book. It's very interesting. As far as grain feeding goes, even less than 100 years ago most people unless they lived in cities got milk from their own cows and they were grass fed. The cows on the farm my mother grew up on were and all the meat they ate was from animals raised on the farm. The cornmeal and wheat they ate was grown on the farm and taken to a nearby mill to be ground. I think about the only things they had store bought were sugar and coffee. Even the tobacco grandpa chewed came from his tobacco. Of course no one here is going to make you eat grass fed anything.
Who is 'she' and what is her book?
It's my other longer post in this thread. I'll copy it here: "I'm in the middle of reading this book, which explains in great detail why vegetable oils are awful and butter (only grassfed) tallow, lard, olive and other fats and oils are good. You can read it for free if you have Kindle Unlimited. Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food Kindle Edition by Catherine Shanahan Here's a page from her website listing good and bad fats (PUFA is her shorthand for polyunsaturated fats) https://drcate.com/list-of-good-fats-and-oils-versus-bad/ There's some other good info, start with most popular posts"
She takes a firmer stand on the butter in her book than on her website. The book is extremely detailed and I have plowed through pages that have no relevance to me at all such as concerns about having healthy, pretty babies. I'm a bit past that. So you might want to skip around a bit. Unless you're planning future babies.
Cheers, I'll take a look! And having another pretty, healthy baby is definitely in the realm of possibility for me.