Are You Eating Enough Good Fats? A Buttery Review of Melt Organic Spread
For years, we’ve been trained to stay away from fat for our health. After all, you’d think that eating fat makes you fat (I still hate that word as a descriptor…). But the nutrition and health community has finally learned through research that that simply isn’t true. In fact, the right kinds of fat in [...]
Paula Deen to Get Healthier After Diabetes Diagnosis? We Hope So.
January 17, 2012 by Jenn
Filed under Celebs, Hot Topics
It’s official. Paula Deen has been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. It comes as no surprise, really. A woman who has built a career on basically reveling in the fact that she uses a lot of butter, fat, sugar and other unhealthy ingredients in her recipes can only do that—and eat like that—for so long before having her [...]
What Type of Fat Do You Use When Cooking?
A few days ago we looked at the pros and cons of butter versus margarine and buttery spreads. Which got us thinking about fat—dietary fat, that is. And you know what? Dietary fat seriously rocks. While you obviously don’t want to go overboard on it, healthy fats are an essential part of a healthy diet [...]
To Eat or Not to Eat: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter
Not to get all Paula Deen on ya’ll, but I like butter. And I really, really like olive oil. So when I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter contacted us about its new Extra Virgin Olive Oil spray and Whipped and Creamy Taste spread, I pretty much couldn’t say no. Sure, margarine of the past freaks [...]
