12.01.2010

The 20 Health Benefits of Real Butter

The origins of butter go back thousands of years to when our ancestors first started domesticating animals. In fact, the first written reference to butter was found on a 4500- year old limestone tablet illustrating how butter was made.1


In India, ghee (clarified butter) has been used as a staple food, and as a symbol of purity, worthy of offering to the gods in religious ceremonies for more than 3000 years.2


The Bible has references to butter as the product of milk from the cow, and of Abraham setting butter and milk from a calf before three angels who appeared to him on the plains of Mamre.3


For millennia, people around the globe have prized butter for its health benefits.


So how did butter become a villain in the quest for good health?


Story at link:

http://www.bodyecology.com/07/07/05/benefits_of_real_butter.php

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