Please *please* don't fall into the trap of "Fat = bad".
Our brains *need* fats--it helps to regulate our moods and keep our various brain chemicals in balance. Our bodies need them, too. And, honestly, I'd rather see you eating real butter than non-butter low-fat non-food. It's the same amount of fat and calories. And, at least butter is from a natural source. Y'know? Not cooked up in a lab somewhere.
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (http://www.amazon.com/Defense-Food-Eaters-Manifesto/dp/1594201455/ref=pd_ys_iyr5)--it's a seriously good read. The basics are:
Don't eat *anything* your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as being food. This includes margarine, anything with HFCS, low-fat anything.
Eat food, not nutrients. Nutrients != food. Anything with "Now with added x" is not food.
Yes, I know. Fat guy telling you how to eat. :-/ But I can tell you that my endos have been telling me since I started seeing them, that they'd rather see me eat & drink real foodstuffs than artificial stuff.
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Our brains *need* fats--it helps to regulate our moods and keep our various brain chemicals in balance. Our bodies need them, too. And, honestly, I'd rather see you eating real butter than non-butter low-fat non-food. It's the same amount of fat and calories. And, at least butter is from a natural source. Y'know? Not cooked up in a lab somewhere.
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (http://www.amazon.com/Defense-Food-Eaters-Manifesto/dp/1594201455/ref=pd_ys_iyr5)--it's a seriously good read. The basics are:
Don't eat *anything* your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as being food. This includes margarine, anything with HFCS, low-fat anything.
Eat food, not nutrients. Nutrients != food. Anything with "Now with added x" is not food.
Yes, I know. Fat guy telling you how to eat. :-/ But I can tell you that my endos have been telling me since I started seeing them, that they'd rather see me eat & drink real foodstuffs than artificial stuff.
Anywho. Didn't mean to rant on. :HUGS: