{"id":445326,"date":"2010-03-19T00:08:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T04:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nourishedkitchen.com\/?p=3502"},"modified":"2010-03-19T00:08:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T04:08:22","slug":"butter-your-vegetables-the-role-of-fruits-vegetables-dietary-fat-in-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/445326","title":{"rendered":"Butter Your Vegetables: The Role of Fruits, Vegetables & Dietary Fat in Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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Antioxidant-rich Parsnips & Carrots Served with a Hefty Dose of Clarified Butter (View the recipe.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In our home, we eat our vegetables with butter – lots<\/em> of butter, and newcomers to traditional foods are often shocked at the amount of fat recommended in the wholesome recipes<\/a> featured on Nourished Kitchen.\u00a0 After all fat, especially saturated<\/em> fat, is bad, isn’t it?\u00a0 It’s dangerous – all this despite significant evidence that dietary fat, including animal fats, featured prominently in the native diets of humans prior to the industrialization of the food supply1<\/sup> thus nourishing and fostering human evolution along with other wholesome, unrefined foods. Indeed animal foods rich in dietary fat comprised approximately two-thirds of the average hunter-gatherer diet, with some pre-agricultural societies consuming up to 99% of their diet from animal foods and others as little as 26%2<\/sup>.\u00a0 Fat nourishes.<\/p>\n

While the consumption of plant foods varies significantly among traditional societies, based largely on both climate and season, such foods also provide essential nutrients – vitamins, antioxidants and minerals. As valuable as these plant foods are, to maximize their value, it is essential to eat them with fat.\u00a0 In an age when low-fat milk and steamed vegetables are heralded as a panacea for obesity, cancer, heart disease and other ills, it’s easy to forget the value of the foods that nourished our ancestors; moreover, it’s near blasphemy to suggest that we ought to butter our carrots, braise our greens in bacon fat or even spread our sandwiches with a homemade mayonnaise loaded with egg yolk and olive oil.<\/p>\n

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Antioxidant-rich Parsnips & Carrots Served with a Hefty Dose of Clarified Butter (View the recipe.) In our home, we eat our vegetables with butter – lots of butter, and newcomers to traditional foods are often shocked at the amount of fat recommended in the wholesome recipes featured on Nourished Kitchen.\u00a0 After all fat, especially saturated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}