{"id":44596,"date":"2013-06-24T04:40:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T03:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/butter-in-your-coffee\/44596\/"},"modified":"2013-06-24T04:40:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T03:40:37","slug":"butter-in-your-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/butter-in-your-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"Butter in Your Coffee?"},"content":{"rendered":"

by
\n Margot Peppers
Daily Mail<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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

A new craze
\n is seeing coffee-drinkers blending their morning brew with up to
\n 80 grams (two-thirds of a stick) of butter, in a bid to boost energy
\n levels and promote weight loss.<\/span><\/p>\n

David Asprey,
\n the creator of Bulletproof
\n Coffee<\/a>, claims that this concoction is full of healthy fats
\n that will keep your energy levels up ‘for six hours if you need
\n it’, as well as ‘improving cognitive function’ and ‘shrinking your
\n waistline’.<\/span><\/p>\n

But some health
\n experts, like Today<\/a>
\n diet and nutrition editor Madelyn Fernstrom, say the blend \u2013
\n which contains between 100 and 200 calories a cup \u2013 can actually
\n promote weight gain, and that any extra energy experienced by drinkers
\n is merely a placebo effect.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Asprey says
\n he discovered the power of butter-blended drinks on the top of Mt
\n Kailash in Tibet, at 18,000 feet elevation.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘I staggered
\n into a guest house from the \u201310 degree weather and was literally
\n rejuvenated by a creamy cup of yak butter tea,’ he recalls on his
\n website.<\/span><\/p>\n

He recreated
\n the energy-boosting effects by mixing unsalted grass-fed butter
\n with his trademark Upgraded Coffee \u2013 made from ‘low-toxin beans’
\n that make it ‘cleaner’ than Starbucks coffee.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to
\n Mr Asprey, butter contains ‘all the benefits of healthy milk fat
\n with none of the damaging denatured casein proteins found in cream,’
\n making for ‘the creamiest, most satisfying’ cup of coffee.<\/span><\/p>\n

The coffee
\n also contains MCT oil \u2013 a blend of coconut and palm oil \u2013 which
\n Mr Asprey says is digested faster than other fats and therefore
\n boosts energy and promotes weight loss.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who follow
\n a ‘paleo’ diet, which consists of mainly animal fats and protein,
\n are fans of the coffee since it falls in with their high-fat regimen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read
\n the rest of the article<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

June
\n 24, 2013<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Copyright
\n \u00a9 2013 <\/span>Daily
\n Mail<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on: Lew Rockwell<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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