Ryan Hall puts BUTTER in his coffee. Seriously?

Hopefully its actual butter and not margarine. A little REAL butter is not that bad for you.

Alan

runningart2004 wrote:

Hopefully its actual butter and not margarine. A little REAL butter is not that bad for you.

Alan

Just being REAL butter is not good enough.

That butter better have been created from the breast milk of the Virgin Mary herself!

I hope he does't get too under the radar once he retires so we can hear about what caused him to burn out so completely 3 years ago

ukathleticscoach wrote:

Perhaps he means milk. You all call milk cream so who knows

What the hell? British people... okay, if what we call cream is considered milk by you guys, what do you call the stuff that comes out of cows?

I agree with you that a high intake of sat fat is a still considered, by the majority of medical/nutrition experts, a CVD risk. However, below you basically contradict yourself:

Ambrown9 wrote:

first of all, health is multifactorial and a single dietary factor can't alone account for rampant CHD in our population; second of all, if there was a single dietary culprit, it would be the sky-high glycemic index of the foods we eat). .

You said "health is multifactorial and a single dietary factor can't alone account for rampant CHD in our population". But then....You try and account for rampant CHD with..."a single dietary factor," the "sky high" (??) GI of the foods we eat. Soda, a big culprit in obesity, and then down the line CHD, is full of fructose. Fructose has a very low GI. So....... And many desserts and fast food are foods/meals that combine tons of sat fat and sugar (a lot of fructose), The overall effect is not a particularly high GI (the whole meal).

We do eat too much sugar. But the "sky high GI" of foods we eat as a culprit for the obesity/T2D epidemic is actually more overblown than sat fat as a culprit. Of course, the REAL culprit is: too many calories, too many junk calories (fast food, dessert, snacks), too few fruits and vegetables, and too many sedentary lives. (also: you do realize that the "rampant CHD" you mention is not really true despite high levels of obesity, at least as far as mortality. Age adjusted CHD deaths are way down compared to the 70's in the USA, and many other countries, despite the excess calories and sedentary lifestyles. This is mainly due to the large use of statins, better medical treatment for heart disease, and a moderate decrease in sat fat consumptions in some populations)

Ryan is a coffee fanatic and tries all kinds of crazy ways to brew his coffee. His twitter is practically an homage to different coffees. Anyway, besides all the BS from the bulletproof diet, butter is supposed to make the coffee taste richer. It does, but not so much that it's a 'gotta have it' type thing. Just another Jogger's World human interest schtick piece.

Tyrannosaurus Rexing wrote:

This is mainly due to the large use of statins, better medical treatment for heart disease, and a moderate decrease in sat fat consumptions in some populations)

Idk if that's quite the case. You also have to consider the addition of ascorbic acid to preserved meats, as well as changes to the way that beer is brewed that reduce the formation of nitrates.

The Dude Deux wrote:

Bulletproof coffee is AWESOME! Tastes great. The caffeine buzz is much more sustained and mellow.

Headcase.

What a moron. Butter is high in lactose and also has quite a bit of carbs. This is totally stupid. If you want to stick with dairy, take ghee in your coffee.

Alternatives would be coconut oil or lard is another good option, and a delicious one too.

4-6 months of this and he's going to have a heart attack. I'm putting $25 down on this.

Can someone explain the supposed advantage of actually putting the butter into the coffee? If the combination of butter and coffee is good for you for some reason, couldn't you just eat the butter on whatever you're having for breakfast instead of greasing up your coffee? How is "bulletproof coffee" any better than having a cup of coffee with a buttered bagel or pancakes?

It's good to consume iron and vitamin C together, but that doesn't mean that you have to put your steak into your orange juice.

AKMarmoset wrote:

ukathleticscoach wrote:

Perhaps he means milk. You all call milk cream so who knows

What the hell? British people... okay, if what we call cream is considered milk by you guys, what do you call the stuff that comes out of cows?

I've never tried creaming a cow.

Or are you adding actual cream?

Ritz Raff wrote:

4-6 months of this and he's going to have a heart attack. I'm putting $25 down on this.

I'll put $25 down on you being a moron but sadly with the odds it will pay about 8 cents.

ukathleticscoach wrote:

AKMarmoset wrote:

What the hell? British people... okay, if what we call cream is considered milk by you guys, what do you call the stuff that comes out of cows?

I've never tried creaming a cow.

Or are you adding actual cream?

Adding cream to the cow? No, I haven't tried that. This is getting weirder and weirder.

Butter is good for you. It's overeating that kills ya.

runningart2004 wrote:

Hopefully its actual butter and not margarine. A little REAL butter is not that bad for you.

Alan

Alan who? You are secretly Alan Webb, I'm sure of it. Or posing as secretly Alan Webb. There are no other Alans who could use just their first name.

not clear on the idea wrote:

How is "bulletproof coffee" any better than having a cup of coffee with a buttered bagel or pancakes?

Because bagel and pancakes have too much carbs. Avoid any carbs like a plague, unless you want to become scrawny fat.

Maybe he started reading Philip Maffatone's book, 1:59...."Dr. Phil" advocates putting butter in coffee to tap into fat burning (he also says a sub 1:50 marathon is very possible and other total bs like that).

I'm not totally giving up ice cream or cheese anytime soon, but IMO the US would do itself a big favor (in the name of health care costs) if everyone cut back on their dairy consumption.... casein protein causes cancer!

Xfit_guy_the_real_1 wrote:

What a moron. Butter is high in lactose and also has quite a bit of carbs. This is totally stupid. If you want to stick with dairy, take ghee in your coffee.

Alternatives would be coconut oil or lard is another good option, and a delicious one too.

Butter has quite a bit of carbs? Really?

It has about 0.1g in a cup (227g).