Butter
Butter made in the natural way and without additives or mechanical processing is a source of healthy fat. It is a good source of fat soluble vitamins A, D, E and K. Above all, it is for me a source of fat that I can eat without raising my glucose levels.
When fasting I looked out tips for how to get through the day if I started to get hungry and couldn’t function without eating. This turned out to not be the case but years of thinking that you have to have ‘3 square meals a day’ in order to be fit and healthy weighed heavily upon me. However I did come across advice from doctors, in particular Dr Ken Berry, that themselves fast intermittently, suggesting that you can take small amounts of butter in the day when you are fasting so as to get over energy fall offs or hunger pangs.
The other day I did have a severe energy slump due to moving a large amount of wood that had been delivered to us. So I find that things like this will make me quickly tired when fasting and butter, cheese or other healthy fats help recovery. But for the most part, as a sedentary programmer I find that I get through the whole day without eating just fine and don’t feel hungry until it is time to do so - up to 24 hours since I last ate.
Having butter as a healthy food source in my diet is a great relief as it has, in my opinion, been much maligned as being unhealthy and something that will ‘fur your arteries’ leading to heart attacks and strokes. Research I have looked through and read suggest that this is not the case and in fact, some would suggest that the opposite is true and that over consumption of carbohydrates in more likely the cause of health problems. I’m not a doctor and would not give medical advice but I would suggest that you look into the research yourself and make your own decisions.
Butter also tastes good, at least it seems to me to do so but even what tastes ‘good’ I think has been undermined by the mechanization of food and food additives, so much so that these days we can be tricked into tasting something ‘good’ that is entirely bad for us when it has been heavily processed and made out of things that are not natural.