This is Frightening, and Not only at the Margarine

'Mr Kolvekar's comments were issued by KTB, a public relations company that works for Unilever, the maker of Flora margarine.'

Ho hum.

I see a future where the government seeks to cure all forms of preventable disease through making it a crime to disobey a doctor's orders.

Only politicians can determine how much liberty a man needs in order to be free, so shut up and eat your fat-free, flavorless, carcinogenic spread - and like it!

I'm going to make my wife eat Chicken Kiev until she expires and then run away with the neighbor lady.

"I Can't Believe It's Not Totalitarianism!"

Here we go again, deja vu from, what maybe, 20 years ago. No no to butter, then about ten years ago suddenly butter isn't really that much of a factor in clogging hearts, now the ying has yanged again.

Frankly I found this:

http://www.food-india.com/ingredients/i001_i025...

because I had an interest in central Asian cooking.

Ghee is the same thing as clarified butter and I had for years ran into recipes that called for clarified butter.

I have been making my own ghee for about two years now, it is easy and really boosts the taste of cooking. Once you get skilled at it your ghee will have a nut-like smell and a nice slightly nutty flavor....tastes great on fresh home baked bread.

I use a stainless steel 3 qt sauce pan to boil the butter, I make ghee in 2 lb batches...always use unsalted butter. Using the stainless steel makes it easier to see the impurities collecting on the bottom of the pain as a brown pebbley deposit.

Health wise, I explored the information on it and found that ghee has about the same effect on your body as virgin olive oil. It also has healing properties when used as discussed on the websites.

To hell with the nannies that want to screw up taste and flavor.

For those who are interested, it is also possible to create flavored ghee. I make a lemon/rosemary ghee to spread on our morning toast, also a garlic/smoked paprika ghee to pop my white-hull popcorn in.

Eat, drink, and worry about death ten minutes after you are gone.

My parents have recently been really into Ghee too. They use it frequently and want me to make my own as well.

Furthermore, many people follow the weston price diet http://www.westonaprice.org/ - They believe in completely the opposite diet of what these folks are proposing. Good pasture raised cows' butter is imperative to good health, they say. Cheap oils (rapeseed, sunflower, cottonseed) are much worse for the body. Quality saturated fats do not go rancid like their cheap vegetable counterparts, and furthermore aid in mineral absorption...

This is such backward science and governing it is sickening.

Great! Go for making your own. 2 lbs of unsalted butter will produce close to a full quart of ghee. You need a good pan like I mentioned, a metal funnel, cheesecloth and a Qt mason canning jar. It only takes about 15 to 20 minutes out of an occasional Sunday or Saturday afternoon.

I leave my ghee out on the counter top and it lasts forever without spoiling. What is nice is that it stays firm and spreadable and ready for instant use. It doesn't get runny or brick hard like it would in a fridge.

This is a natural response to universal healthcare.

You are right. Think about the analogy of health insurance to auto insurance. Think of all the laws that govern what you can do with your car, which keep claims down. Now extend that analogy to health insurance. It results in detailed laws about what you can do with your body, to keep claims down.

The problem with the auto insurance analogy is that driving is not a right, but a privilege. With the individual mandate, life goes from being a right to a privilege in the eyes of government.

Additionally, car insurance, even if required for owning or leasing a car in most all states, isn't provided for millions of people at no cost to them at the expense of millions of others. Car insurance companies also have the ability to drop drivers that have to file excessive amounts of claims; health insurance providers would not have that right if proposed legislation passes.

Wow, there is nothing wrong with butter in moderate quantities. Now I'd ban margarine as it's proven toxic.

The most recent epidemiologic investigation fails to find significant evidence that saturated fat cause CVD.

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/ajcn.2...

ABSTRACT

Background: A reduction in dietary saturated fat has generally been thought to improve cardiovascular health.

Objective: The objective of this meta-analysis was to summarize the evidence related to the association of dietary saturated fat with risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, and cardiovascular disease (CVD; CHD inclusive of stroke) in prospective epidemiologic studies.

Design: Twenty-one studies identified by searching MEDLINE and EMBASE databases and secondary referencing qualified for inclusion in this study. A random-effects model was used to derive composite relative risk estimates for CHD, stroke, and CVD.

Results: During 5–23 y of follow-up of 347,747 subjects, 11,006 developed CHD or stroke. Intake of saturated fat was not associated with an increased risk of CHD, stroke, or CVD. The pooled relative risk estimates that compared extreme quantiles of saturated fat intake were 1.07 (95% CI: 0.96, 1.19; P = 0.22) for CHD, 0.81 (95% CI: 0.62, 1.05; P = 0.11) for stroke, and 1.00 (95% CI: 0.89, 1.11; P = 0.95) for CVD. Consideration of age, sex, and study quality did not change the results.

Conclusions: A meta-analysis of prospective epidemiologic studies showed that there is no significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of CHD or CVD. More data are needed to elucidate whether CVD risks are likely to be influenced by the specific nutrients used to replace saturated fat.

Received for publication March 6, 2009. Accepted for publication November 25, 2009.

What's more "frightening"? the nanny state trying to save lives, or:

The very fact that people in the USA today seriously drop thousands of bombs and bullets onto innocent people in countries which they couldn't find on a world map, testifies to the disrespect that many self-styled elites have for ordinary men and women.

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C. S. Lewis

Geck, if I may be so informal, what is your point here? Are you suggesting it is a good thing for a massive state bureaucracy, growing ever larger, to now dictate what foods you and I can eat?

Are you upset that the US pursues a foreign policy that includes military attacks on people in foreign lands?

The same governments that brought us the war are the ones behind these gustatory rules. You can't really think that stupidity in government foreign policy is different, divorced, and disconnected from government domestic policy.

Much too sensible and accurate, sir. But, to no avail, the gecko has shown that he is another with a mind like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set. Such truth will never penetrate the density.

>> "Not only at the Margarine"

LOL! :-)

Here's your future under Obamacare!