Yes, This Can Get Complicated

In this post, http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/butter-and-insulin.html, Dr. Davis, one of my favorite bloggers, posts a study which reviews insulin response. It points a finger at butter as a surprisingly high driver of insulin secretion. In this response, http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/2010/03/butter-insulin-and-dr-davis.html, another favorite blogger dissects the study with a starkly different conclusion. Both the blogs and comments are a good read, and speedily get us into a very complex place. But there's a light of clarity to keep us on the right path. That light is measurement. In a sense, it does not matter what one eats, so long as one get adequate nutrition and does not induce chronically high insulin levels. There are measures to indicate whether we are or are not in the high insulin zone. Therefore - measure and evalute. If your insulin's out of whack, you might consider whether you are eating too much commercial butter - but only after you know you're on track with carb restriction.