Food Diary – Week 3

This is the food diary for my third week (7 -13/Jul); at the end of the second week I was getting used to the large consumption of butter.  I am not sure if it’s related to the butter or just the weather but I feel with lower energy than usual. I spent in Italy most […]

Food Diary – Week 2

This is the food diary for my second week (30/Jun – 6/Jul); At the end of the first week I felt so fatty and buttery (probably due to a combination of dinners out and drinking, totally unrelated factors to the butter itself) that I was considering quitting, however I am glad I didn’t as I […]

On consuming 50g of butter per day for science

Frankly yesterday I felt so full and fatty that I was about to throw the towel but I am holding on.  Butter is kind of OK, even compared to lovely extra virgin olive oil I usually consume.  The key factor is sheer quantities; I usually cook and consume each day about half of the fat […]

Food Diary – Week 1

This was my first week (23-30/Jun) in this experiment, no noticeable effects so far: 23-Jun Friday Dinner: made 150g of penne pasta, dressed with the whole 50g butter and lots of Parmesan cheese.  I grew up eating pasta with butter and cheese so great memory and enjoyable but 50g was a tad too much compared […]

Case study: is Coconut oil good for you?

I got involved in a case study run by BBC’s series “trust me I am a doctor”; apparently there no medical studies to prove whether coconut oil is good or bad for us. Some say that despite the saturated fats it contains other substances which have different effect on our health from butter or other […]