Maybe the butter has unjustly acquired a bad reputation that it’s bad for health. The consumption of butter is associated very little with the early… mortality and any heart disease or strokes, while in fact it seems to protect to some extent from the type 2 diabetes, according to a new scientific study.
The researchers, led by professor ÎταÏίους ΜοζαφαÏιάν of the Faculty of Science of Nutrition at Tufts University in Boston, who made the relevant publication in the journal “PLoS One”, evaluated (meta-analysis) 15 previous investigations from various countries, which in total were over 636.100 people. These were followed by ten to 23 years, during which there have been 28.271 deaths and 9.783 who were diagnosed with heart disease.
The average daily consumption of butter per person ranged from one-third of a serving to a 3.2 servings. As a portion of butter were considered to be 14 grams a day or about a tablespoon.
The butter contains a number of saturated fats, which are generally considered “bad” fats. But the new epidemiological study found a very small to insignificant correlation of the quantity of butter that one consumes in a day, with the risk to die prematurely or have heart disease.
The consumption of one serving of butter a day is associated with a marginal 1% increase in the risk of premature death, but with a 4% decrease in the risk of type 2 diabetes
“In summary, our findings show that the butter should neither be demonized nor seen as important for good health,” said ΜοζαφαÏιάν and stressed that needs further investigation is the possible positive effect of butter on diabetes.
“Although those who eat more butter, generally make the worst diet and follow a more unhealthy way of life, the effect of the butter seems to be pretty much neutral. This shows that the butter is a mid-food: healthier than sugar or starch, such as white bread or potatoes, but more unhealthy than many margarines and cooking oils that are healthy pipis, such as extra virgin olive oil and soybean oil,” said researcher Laura Pimping.
The researchers pointed out that the problem finally is not as the same butter, as where the spreads, e.x. on white bread, or what combines, for.x. with fries.
The demonization of butter and, more generally, of saturated fats had started from the decade of 50, but more recent studies are coming gradually to sanitize it, at least to some extent. The cardiologists and other specialists still, however, warn that the high consumption of butter can damage and in no case do not give the “green light” to eat as long as he wants.
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New study ‘exonerates’ the butter for heart disease and premature deaths
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