{"id":99345,"date":"2014-07-17T08:24:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T13:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=99345"},"modified":"2014-07-17T08:36:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T13:36:25","slug":"meet-the-dietitian-who-eats-butter-sugar-and-carbs-and-says-you-can-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/meet-the-dietitian-who-eats-butter-sugar-and-carbs-and-says-you-can-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Dietitian Who Eats Butter, Sugar, and Carbs, and Says You Can, Too!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"butter<\/a><\/p>\n

By Janis Jibrin, M.S., R.D., Best Life<\/a> lead nutritionist<\/em><\/p>\n

As I got the butter out from my fridge the other day, a friend of mine commented in surprise, \u201cYou eat butter?\u201d.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s right to question. For years, there was no butter in my kitchen because it contains a lot of saturated fat, which nutrition scientists believed could lead to heart disease and possibly increase the risk for cancer and even dementia. But being a nutritionist, I keep up with the food research, and things change.\u00a0I started thinking of how my diet has changed over the past decade, and here are the main shifts; the ways I changed my own diet for the better.<\/p>\n

I ENJOY BUTTER.<\/strong> Even after margarine was exposed as a trans fat nightmare<\/a><\/strong>, I still avoided butter because 63 percent of the fat in butter is saturated. I went along with the scientific thinking: If you eat too much saturated fat, levels of LDL (\u201cbad\u201d cholesterol) rise, and people with higher LDL are more likely to develop heart disease.<\/p>\n

But recently, scientists have admitted that a critical dot isn\u2019t connecting: Studies do not show that people who eat more saturated fat are at an increased risk for heart disease<\/a><\/strong>. It could be that their type of LDL (yes, there are different types of LDL, and yes, nutrition is a complex field!) isn\u2019t the most dangerous one. Or maybe because saturated fat also raises levels of HDL (\u201cgood\u201d cholesterol); the two counterbalance each other. Whatever the reason, experts are beginning to rethink their stance on saturated fat.<\/p>\n

Until the science is clearer, I\u2019m still limiting my butter. I enjoy a teaspoon on average daily. I\u2019m also eating a little more full-fat cheese<\/a><\/strong> than I used to (another source of saturated fat).<\/p>\n

I’M STRICT WITH STARCHES<\/strong>. I\u2019ve always been a whole grain devot\u00e9e\u2014the only time a piece of white bread crosses my lips is at a restaurant, and it has to be exceptionally delicious to earn the privilege. But I was always liberal with oats, whole grain bread, bulgur wheat, quinoa and other whole grains.<\/p>\n

Now that I\u2019m older and have to be a tad more careful about calories, it\u2019s these healthy grains I\u2019m trimming slightly. That\u2019s because they\u2019re still high in calories. Breakfast is always high-carb, but I\u2019m more careful the rest of the day\u2014having an open-faced sandwich for lunch instead of two slices of bread, and maybe no starchy foods at dinner (which is usually fish and a big salad). More on Clearing Up Carb Confusion<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I LIMIT ADDED SUGAR<\/strong>. I love sweets\u2014not the super-sweet kind, but dark chocolate or cookies and cakes that aren\u2019t crazy-sugary. Even still, these are rife with added sugar (as opposed to sugar naturally found in fruit or milk; more on that here<\/a><\/strong>.) I recently settled on an \u201cevery other day\u201d rule (as opposed to the \u201cevery day\u201d non-rule I had before). Every other day, I can have a medium-size cookie, half a slice of cake, or another high-sugar item. On the \u201coff\u201d days\u2014I allow myself a few bites of dark chocolate<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

How has your diet shifted? We\u2019re curious to hear about it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also Read:<\/strong><\/p>\n

7 Crazy Diet Tricks That Actually Work<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

3 Healthy Fats You Should be Eating<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dark Chocolate Brownies for Julia Child’s 100th Birthday<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Janis Jibrin, M.S., R.D., Best Life lead nutritionist As I got the butter out from my fridge the other day, a friend of mine commented in surprise, \u201cYou eat butter?\u201d. She\u2019s right to question. For years, there was no … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695,804],"tags":[5503,863,1166,3,23,279],"class_list":["post-99345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","category-heart-disease","tag-best-life-diet","tag-butter","tag-carbohydrates","tag-diet-tips","tag-guest-blog","tag-sugar"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99349,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99345\/revisions\/99349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}