Holy Crap - Butter IS NOT evil!!!!

Did you know that butter is actually healthier than most vegetable oils?!
Well, I did not know that saturated fats provide more nutritional value, while highly processed vegetable oils, containing high amounts of Omega 6 fats, are in fact detrimental to your health because our diets lack sufficient Omega 3 fats! Yes, this sounds like more nutritional bull crap, like the most recent scientific based nutritional trends that misguide American consumers, however it is one of the most authentic insights that has been tested by cultures for generations! To think, I have been judging butter eaters for years, ironically, when they have had the right idea all along! The "French Paradox," where the French are able to regularly consume saturated fats and even processed white breads without worrying about heart disease and obesity, like us foolish Americans suddenly makes sense!

In the past century and a half, the American diet has been radically altered from the strictly whole, unprocessed foods of our ancestors to mostly highly refined starches, which have even crept their way into our dairy products! Our bodies haven't had proper time to adapt to the foreign and extremely manipulated sugars that we basically shovel in our bodies, without even realizing the possibly fatal consequences! In addition to gorging ourselves with higher concentrations of sugar than nature alone could possibly provide us with, the sugars we consume are stripped of their nutritional value through excessive processing. Thus explaining America's obese, yet malnourished population!
For a country preoccupied with personal health, it appears we have it all backwards. The solution is to remove the anxieties of what to eat and what not to eat and instead to simply eat food! Nature provides only good foods when eaten in moderation and it is when humans interfere and "alter" whole foods in order to make them "healthier" that our tragedy begins.

Allow me to explain by stating that I have completely altered my relationship with food in the past few months. Upon finishing my second Michael Pollan book, all I want to do is to plant a garden and to basically cook what I grow, or what other local farmers provide, and then to I want to write about my experiences! I am flabbergasted, no, truly appalled by the consequences of our industrial economy and the realization that there is little that I can do to avoid it other than to become a sort of farming hippie! No, I don't want to completely abstain from my American society by refusing its products, however I am frustrated by how profit driven a majority of the food industry has become, at the sake of the consumer's health. I had no clue how far the American food system has departed from nature, and now it is too difficult for me to look the other way.

In a nut shell, eat "food" and not "imitation food"! If a human from the Paleolithic era would not recognize it as food, then it most likely isn't food!

Sorry to overwhelm you but I am a bit overwhelmed myself with all of this! If you are interested, I strongly recommend his books though, particularly An Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food. Nothing Pollan suggests is radical, but only what he reveals about our current situation as consumers is, well, horrifying and, currently all we can do is take care of ourselves and step back from Industry for a change.
Science, doesn't have all of the answers and food is a mysterious categories were tested common sense prevails over weakly proven scientific research.

But please, don't put down your forks and keep eating! Real food is a wonderful thing, the problem now a days is finding it!