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MEN’S HEALTH MAGAZINE GETS IT RIGHT ON BUTTER!

by Janice Curtin, Weston A. Price Foundation Chapter Leader

In the November 2009 issue of Men’s Health a small article is titled FATTEN UP TO SLIM DOWN.  It says “You don’t have to go whole hog on a low-carb diet to see results.  Simply swapping in fat for a few hundred calories of carbs may help you lose weight and reduce your blood-insulin levels, according to researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.  People in their study who consumed just 43 percent of their calories from carbohydrates felt fuller after 4 hours than those who ate 55 percent carbs.  “Carbs can cause blood-sugar levels to spike and then crash, leading to hunger and overeating”, says study author Barbara Gower, Ph.D.  Fat, on the other hand, keeps you satisfied longer.

Some easy swaps:  butter instead of jam on toast, bacon instead of potatoes, milk instead of a sport drink.

This is another sign that more people are realizing we must go back to our real whole foods that have nourished us for centuries, like butter, eggs, meat and whole milk.   In another magazine, the Fall 2009 Price-Pottenger Journal of Health and Healing, nutrition author Julia Ross says,  “Cholesterol is an extremely valuable nutrient.”  We need it for our adrenal glands to make hormones to cope with stress.  Our sex hormones are made from it and about a 25 percent of our brain is cholesterol.  Saturated fat, which contains cholesterol,  is the preferred fuel for the heart.  She says a cholesterol level of between 180 and 260 seems to be ideal.

Janice Curtin

Janice Curtin is a long-time member of the Weston A. Price Foundation and the Price-Pottenger Foundation.  Janice’s  philosophy is that to have good health and reduced health costs we must eat nutrient  dense farm food, digest and metabolize it well, and avoid toxins.   Our nutrition determines how our genes express. She grew up on an Iowa farm on a diet of real farm food and raw milk. She has a degree in Education from the University of Northern Iowa and a masters degree in Liberal Studies from Georgetown University.  She has worked in Legislative Affairs on Capitol Hill and at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.  She is a WAPF volunteer chapter leader, coordinates nutrition talks, and is the coordinator for a farm buying club.  She also works with a TBM practitioner  (Total Body Modification) who uses a whole body approach to healing.

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