At 04:53 PM 3/18/2007, you wrote:
What is a better alternative to butter? thanks debbie
Butter
http://www.westonaprice.org/foodfeatures/butter.html
Does butter cause disease? On the contrary, butter protects us
against many diseases. ... Butter is America's best and most easily
absorbed source of vitamin A.
The Wulzen or "anti-stiffness" factor is a nutrient unique to butter.
Dutch researcher Wulzen found that it protects against calcification
of the joints--degenerative arthritis--as well as hardening of the
arteries, cataracts and calcification of the pineal gland.
Unfortunately this vital substance is destroyed during pasteurization.
www.westonaprice.org/federalupdate/testimony/proposedwicrevisions.doc
The Price Factor or Activator X: Discovered by Dr. Price, Activator X
is a powerful catalyst which, like vitamins A and D, helps the body
absorb and utilize minerals. It is found in organ meats from grazing
animals and some sea food. Butter can be an especially rich source of
Activator X when it comes from cows eating rapidly growing grass in
the spring and fall seasons. It disappears in cows fed cottonseed
meal or high protein soy-based feeds.[1] Fortunately, Activator X is
not destroyed by pasteurization.
http://www.westonaprice.org/moderndiseases/chronicdisease.html
The nutrient Price called "Activator X," most richly concentrated in
milk fat from cows grazing on rapidly growing pasture, may be the
most important activator of all. Price was able to reverse tooth
decay and cure many diseases using "X-Factor" butter oil concentrate
in conjunction with high-vitamin cod liver oil.
http://www.westonaprice.org/knowyourfats/skinny.html#butter
Nutrients in Butter
The Diet Dictocrats have succeeded in convincing Americans that
butter is dangerous, when in fact it is a valued component of many
traditional diets and a source of the following nutrients:
Fat-Soluble Vitamins: These include true vitamin A or retinol,
vitamin D, vitamin K and vitamin E as well as all their naturally
occurring cofactors needed to obtain maximum effect. Butter is
America's best source of these important nutrients. In fact, vitamin
A is more easily absorbed and utilized from butter than from other
sources.61 Fortunately, these fat-soluble vitamins are relatively
stable and survive the pasteurization process.
When Dr. Weston Price studied isolated traditional peoples around the
world, he found that butter was a staple in many native diets. (He
did not find any isolated peoples who consumed polyunsaturated oils.)
The groups he studied particularly valued the deep yellow butter
produced by cows feeding on rapidly growing green grass. Their
natural intuition told them that its life-giving qualities were
especially beneficial for children and expectant mothers.
