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What is Butter Coffee?
Butter coffee, also recently called bulletproof coffee, is currently the rage in some places. Butter coffee is eight ounces of freshly brewed coffee plus a teaspoonful each of unsalted butter and coconut oil. There are variations on the theme but the claim of those who like butter coffee is that it gives you more energy, helps you lose weight and avoids the ingestion of so-called inflammatory sugars. It turns out that butter coffee is not really a new idea. In Ethiopia where coffee was first discovered putting butter in freshly brewed coffee is a custom.
Is Butter Coffee Good, Bad or Indifferent?
We have written at length about the health benefits or both regular and healthy organic coffee. But good health recommendations today include limiting the amount of saturated fats in your diet. When you think of saturated fats think of animal fat and butter! The claim that drinking butter coffee helps you lose weight is not proven. It does make sense that fats and proteins take longer to digest so that we do not feel hungry as soon after butter coffee as we might after black coffee and sugar. Limit yourself to butter coffee instead of black coffee and a greasy sweet roll and you are probably exchanging the butter in the sweet roll for the butter in the coffee and excluding the carbohydrates in the sweet roll. But you are probably also missing out on the B vitamins that are commonly included in and added to wheat flour!
What Is the Proof and Can You Trust What They Say?
We just published an article about a Bogus Green Coffee Extract Claim. A couple of years ago a study was published stating that healthy volunteers who took measured quantities of green coffee extract lost weight. It turns out that the data was fudged and the US researchers who published the study have just retracted it. In addition the company that sponsored the study is in hot water with the Federal Trade Commission!
The Federal Trade Commission has levied a fine of $3.5 million on Applied Food Sciences, the company that sponsored the study claiming that green coffee extract resulted in weight loss. Here is a quote from the FTC.
…the study’s lead investigator repeatedly altered the weights and other key measurements of the subjects, changed the length of the trial, and misstated which subjects were taking the placebo or GCA during the trial. When the lead investigator was unable to get the study published, the FTC says that AFS hired researchers Joe Vinson and Bryan Burnham at the University of Scranton to rewrite it. Despite receiving conflicting data, Vinson, Burnham, and AFS never verified the authenticity of the information used in the study, according to the complaint.
Despite the study’s flaws, AFS used it to falsely claim that GCA caused consumers to lose 17.7 pounds, 10.5 percent of body weight, and 16 percent of body fat with or without diet and exercise, in 22 weeks, t
2. Butter coffee, also recently called
bulletproof coffee, is currently the
rage in some places.
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
3. Butter coffee is eight ounces of
freshly brewed coffee plus a
teaspoonful each of unsalted butter
and coconut oil.
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
4. There are variations on the theme
but the claim of those who like butter
coffee is that it gives you more
energy, helps you lose weight and
avoids the ingestion of so-called
inflammatory sugars.
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
5. It turns out that butter coffee is not
really a new idea.
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
6. In Ethiopia where coffee was first
discovered putting butter in freshly
brewed coffee is a custom.
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
7. Is Butter Coffee Good, Bad or
Indifferent?
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
8. We have written at length about the
health benefits or both regular
and healthy organic coffee.
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
9. But good health recommendations
today include limiting the amount of
saturated fats in your diet.
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
10. When you think of saturated fats
think of animal fat and butter!
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
11. The claim that drinking butter coffee
helps you lose weight is not proven.
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
12. It does make sense that fats and
proteins take longer to digest so that
we do not feel hungry as soon after
butter coffee as we might after black
coffee and sugar.
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
13. Limit yourself to butter coffee
instead of black coffee and a greasy
sweet roll and you are probably
exchanging the butter in the sweet
roll for the butter in the coffee and
excluding the carbohydrates in the
sweet roll.
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
14. But you are probably also missing
out on the B vitamins that are
commonly included in and added to
wheat flour!
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
15. What Is the Proof and Can You
Trust What They Say?
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
16. We just published an article about
a Bogus Green Coffee Extract
Claim.
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
17. A couple of years ago a study was
published stating that healthy
volunteers who took measured
quantities of green coffee extract
lost weight.
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
18. It turns out that the data was fudged
and the US researchers who
published the study have just
retracted it.
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
19. In addition the company that
sponsored the study is in hot water
with the Federal Trade Commission!
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
20. The Federal Trade Commission has
levied a fine of $3.5 million on
Applied Food Sciences, the
company that sponsored the study
claiming that green coffee extract
resulted in weight loss. Here is a
quote from the FTC.
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
21. …the study’s lead investigator
repeatedly altered the weights and
other key measurements of the
subjects, changed the length of the
trial, and misstated which subjects
were taking the placebo or GCA
during the trial.
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
22. When the lead investigator was
unable to get the study published,
the FTC says that AFS hired
researchers Joe Vinson and Bryan
Burnham at the University of
Scranton to rewrite it.
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
23. Despite receiving conflicting data,
Vinson, Burnham, and AFS never
verified the authenticity of the
information used in the study,
according to the complaint.
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
24. Despite the study’s flaws, AFS used
it to falsely claim that GCA caused
consumers to lose 17.7 pounds,
10.5 percent of body weight, and 16
percent of body fat with or without
diet and exercise, in 22 weeks, the
complaint alleges.
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
25. The point of bringing up the green
coffee extract fiasco is this.
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
26. If you like to put butter and or
coconut oil in your coffee and skip
the cream and sugar go for it.
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
27. But do not go for the hype about
there being specific health benefits
to drinking butter coffee or so-called
bulletproof coffee without seeing
well documented proof.
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
28. Organic coffee is good for your
health. There are lots and lots of
well documented studies showing
the benefits of coffee and there is a
lot of good data showing that
organic coffee is free of a large
number of contaminants that may be
found in regular coffee.
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
29. Enjoy your coffee but insist on proof
before using concoctions like butter
coffee as replacements for good
dietary advice or medications.
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1228/what-is-butter-coffee/
