My unpopular opinions regarding food/nutrition and health:
- Refined sucrose/fructose is a neurotoxic stimulant drug
- Seafood and cod liver is essential
- Coffee and stimulants are toxic
- Veganism is population control
- Cow/beef is the worst animal you can consume
Good morning there is some 14 year old kid in Milwaukee in 2013 making more experimental and forward thinking music than whatever you’re working on right now and there’s nothing to be done have a great day.
“Now think…”
No.
Butter literally was foundational to modern nutritional science.
Vitamins A and D were discovered through the finding that cod liver oil and butter both cured irreversible blindness.
At first it was thought they were one vitamin.
The discovery that they were two different vitamins came from the failure of butter to cure rickets.
It later turned out that butter did cure rickets if the cows were raised in the sunshine, but not when they were raised indoors.
When Sir Edward Mellanby discovered the role of vitamin A in preventing infections, the foundational experiment showed that butter and cod liver oil both prevented infections but olive oil didn’t.
Because olive oil doesn’t have vitamins A or D.
No one NEEDS to eat butter.
No one NEEDS to eat cod liver oil.
If you get enough sunshine, you don’t need the vitamin D in cod liver oil.
If you do eat cod liver oil, you don’t need the vitamin A in butter.
If you are good at converting carotenoids in red, orange, yellow, and green vegetables to vitamin A, you don’t need the vitamin A in butter.
If you eat liver, you can be bad at converting carotenoids and still not need the vitamin A in butter.
But believing that butter is a source of nutrients is not a modern internet fad.
It’s literally one of the most central and foundational observations of nutrition science made by the pioneers who created the discipline.