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Does butter raise insulin and make you fat?
Can I eat butter?

After reading The Paleo Diet and the Paleo Solution, I thought that the Paleo stance on butter was pretty clear. Then, I came across Mark Sisson and his Daily Apple and he seems to encourage copious butter consumption.

I understand that all butter is not created equal (pastured vs. conventional, clarified vs. milk solids), but I'm a little confused at this point.

Anybody know better about butter?

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Ultimately you have to decide what works best for you, some paleo people eat some dairy, some do not. I don't think it matters to what degree you can say you follow paleo, what matters is what you find that works out best for your health. – HeatherC Mar 31 2011 at 12:58

closed as exact duplicate by Adam Crafter, Bread-Eating Beelzebub Mar 31 2011 at 14:08

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For reference you could check out the 42 other threads tagged "butter".

Long story short: Most paleo style eaters include (usually pastured) butter in their diet at least sometimes because of its value as a readily-available, affordable, vitamin soluble, high quality stable saturated animal fat that can be used in high temperature cooking.

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Cool. Whole Foods has just started carrying a pastured butter by Organic Valley and I found a guy in town who has a farm products buying club, so I think I'm going to give it a go. – FED at LiveCaveman.com Apr 1 2011 at 11:15
a somewhat helpful, yet undocumented answer - hardly convincing! but thanks for the attempt - and for not being rude! – semirade May 12 2011 at 13:44
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As already noted, there are lots of answers on here about butter, but the basic point is this:

Butter has lots of good things about it (see familygrokumentarian's answer) but it has some milk solids (around half a gram of lactose and protein per 100g) which may be bad. How bad this gram of milk solids per 100g of butter will be depends on how dairy-sensitive you are, which varies absolutely massively across the global population.

Of course you can always eat ghee, which has had even these milk solids removed.

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Sounds good David! Do you use ghee? I've seen quite few products for sale, but it seems pretty easy to make as well. – FED at LiveCaveman.com Apr 1 2011 at 11:17
No I just use butter (and sometimes cream as well). I have made ghee before (for hiking/pemmican) and yeh, it seemed easy enough. – David Moss Apr 1 2011 at 12:07
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 thanks for your answer! – semirade May 12 2011 at 13:45
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I'm not trying to be rude but...there are SO many threads here about butter.

http://paleohacks.com/questions/tagged/butter

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I hear you man, will do in the future. I just signed on to Paleo Hacks a few days ago and didn't realize how thoroughly fleshed out most "common" questions were. – FED at LiveCaveman.com Apr 1 2011 at 11:16
well you are rude! – semirade May 12 2011 at 13:43

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