For the love of fat.

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Are you afraid of beef?

Now that we have a sense of where this ridiculous fat-phobia came from, let’s talk nutrition. Experts and scientists are finally talking about the essential benefits of fat. When you consider that our brains are more than two-thirds fat, and that our brain cell membranes are made of Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs), it’s easy to see that [...]

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What really makes us fat?

During my college days I felt like I was always trying to get control of my weight. I danced 8+ hours a day. I avoided junk food. And I did what the world told me to do: Eat a low fat diet. From what the nutritional world told me I should have been a lean-mean [...]

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buttergood

Hopefully yesterday’s post provided some insight into the merits of butter.  We’re talking about honest-to-goodness butter here. Not the fake “buttery” spread that comes in a yellow tube (trying to pass itself off as butter). We’re not talking about margarine or butter mixed with rancid canola oil. We’re talking the good stuff. The real stuff. [...]