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Yes, in the winter birds are burning a lot of calories staying warm, even if they're just hunkered down on an evergreen branch. Some nice high calorie fat is a good survival food for them.
I buy beef fat from the butcher, then I render it down to make beef tallow, which I use for cooking.
Chop it into pieces. Put it on a flat pan and bake it at 250 degrees for a couple of hours.
Then pour the clear liquid off into a container and let it cool. When it cools it looks a little like lard, but sometimes a little grainy.
I use it when I cook almost anything beef and sometimes when frying eggs.
My diet is largely meat and eggs. I don't eat many vegetables.
You have to be of English heritage....I know of no one else that eats that. It was always a staple on our holiday table, my folks and grandmother would rather have that than the turkey/ham.
Our Christmas dinner, served on my mother's Old Country Roses dinner set, featured a Yorkshire pudding contest between her and her son-in-law. I didn't sample both, but according to those who did, his were crispier than hers, even though they both used Jamie Oliver's recipe.
No. I eat lots and lots of meat, and my cholesterol runs around 134. Has been as high as 200 in the past.
FWIW, I no longer believe the "cholesterol is evil" story. I believe it has been sugar - particularly processed sugar - and so-called vegetable oils all along. We've been had.
No. I eat lots and lots of meat, and my cholesterol runs around 134. Has been as high as 200 in the past.
FWIW, I no longer believe the "cholesterol is evil" story. I believe it has been sugar - particularly processed sugar - and so-called vegetable oils all along. We've been had.
My own physician is not opposed to use of animal fats. I don’t mean deep frying food all the time, but it’s not the ‘evil’ as portrayed and hyped by Proctor & Gamble when they pushed Crisco as the ‘healthy’ alternative.
My own physician is not opposed to use of animal fats. I don’t mean deep frying food all the time, but it’s not the ‘evil’ as portrayed and hyped by Proctor & Gamble when they pushed Crisco as the ‘healthy’ alternative.
From the quoted study:
Overall, the prevalence rate of ASCVD was greater in vegetable/gingili oil users (31.68%) than in lard/other animal fat oil users (17.46%) (Table 2). Compared to lard/other animal fat oil use, the unadjusted model suggested that vegetable/gingili oil use was significantly associated with a higher risk for ASCVD
In other words, vegetable oil users have more heart disease than lard users.
But that's correlation, does not prove causation.
Would have been interesting if they had differentiated between oils from fatty fruits like olive & avocado--which are simply pressed-- and oils from seeds like corn, soy, and canola--which get processed with solvents and bleaches.
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