Guest guest Posted April 26, 2004 Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 I read that butter contains 3 to 4% trans fat. I was thinking that perhaps this trans fat is a healthy trans fat since it is natural, assuming that the trans fat is not somehow formed when the cream is made into butter. I find it exceedingly difficult to believe that my breast milk or that of any other creature has a fat in it that is bad. Can anyone comment on this? Helen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 26, 2004 Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 > trans fat in butter > > >I read that butter contains 3 to 4% trans fat. I was thinking that perhaps >this trans fat is a healthy trans fat since it is natural, >assuming that the >trans fat is not somehow formed when the cream is made into butter. I find >it exceedingly difficult to believe that my breast milk or that of >any other >creature has a fat in it that is bad. Can anyone comment on this? > >Helen Helen, it's a very healthy transfat called Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA). All transfats are not bad - CLA which found in beef and dairy (CLA) is quite beneficial. Among other things it's a cancer figther, and helps you lose weight. You can even buy CLA supplements for these purposes. It's the transfats formed from *hydrogenation* that you want to avoid. Suze Fisher Lapdog Design, Inc. Web Design & Development http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3shjg Weston A. Price Foundation Chapter Leader, Mid Coast Maine http://www.westonaprice.org ---------------------------- " The diet-heart idea (the idea that saturated fats and cholesterol cause heart disease) is the greatest scientific deception of our times. " -- Mann, MD, former Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee; heart disease researcher. The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics <http://www.thincs.org> ---------------------------- > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 27, 2004 Report Share Posted April 27, 2004 Sally Fallon says that the small amounts of naturally occurring trans fats in butter and other animal products are not harmful, and also somehow different than the trans in partially-hydrogenated oil, but I don't have the info on hand and am speaking from memory. trans fat in butter I read that butter contains 3 to 4% trans fat. I was thinking that perhaps this trans fat is a healthy trans fat since it is natural, assuming that the trans fat is not somehow formed when the cream is made into butter. I find it exceedingly difficult to believe that my breast milk or that of any other creature has a fat in it that is bad. Can anyone comment on this? Helen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 1, 2004 Report Share Posted May 1, 2004 --- In , Lampinen <lampinen@s...> wrote: > I read that butter contains 3 to 4% trans fat. I was thinking that perhaps > this trans fat is a healthy trans fat since it is natural, assuming that the > trans fat is not somehow formed when the cream is made into butter. I find > it exceedingly difficult to believe that my breast milk or that of any other > creature has a fat in it that is bad. Can anyone comment on this? > > Helen The percentage of " bad " trans fat in butter is about a tenth that of hydrogenated oils, but the difference is purely quantitative and NOT qualitative. (But the quantative difference is so dramatic it could be considered effectively qualitative with respect to the overall effect on health.) I'm still waiting on evidence of a cellular/molecular mechanism for the adverse health effects of trans fats... Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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