we use my own rendered lard from our hogs or saved bacon fat to fry. My lard for all baked goods and real butter for table use for on top of cornbread, biscuits and so on........).
I am 66. My DH is 68. Neither of us take any medicines. Blood pressure is excellent. Heart good. Cholesterol great. Neither overweight.
We work hard and don't sit in front of a tv or a computer (much). Get up at 5:30 seven days a week and go to bed at 10:30 - summer, winter, rain or shine.
Lots of exercise and cook from scratch - our own home processed chicken, rabbits, and pork and lots of home canned or frozen fruits and veggies; none of the processed food junk or store bought meats. Never buy them.

butter, a variety of olive oils, canola oil, some lard, some bacon drippings. I stay away from margarine, shortening, cool whip, any hydrogenated oil product. I used to live down wind from a margarine factory, it smelled like vomit.

Mamaograms have been shown to cause breast cancer because of the repeated xraying of the body. They are bad news.

Another WestonAPrice.org fan here. We use butter from our cows, lard from our pigs, olive oil occasionally, coconut oil once in awhile, cold pressed sesame oil or safflower oil rarely. Never any other veg oils, never crisco or margerine.

We both have excellent cholesterol and triglyceride numbers, good blood pressure and good health in general.

Olive oil cooking savories and in bread, organic butter cooking pancakes etc and on toast/ waffles/ etc and in cookies and pastries, rarely peanut oil for deep frying, organic canola for cake mixes (olive oil too strong tasting in these), sesame oil for flavoring.

[QUOTE=PinkBat]At first glance the advice on this site looked great to me....the nutritional advice anyway. Then I started reading their views on breast health and consequently have to doubt everything else they try to tell me. They recommend No mammograms....no breast self exams.....[QUOTE]

Mammograms shoot concentrated radiation into the most sensitive to radiation part of your body. I've read that if a woman has one mammo every year from age 40-65 she'll have absorbed more radiation, in her breasts, than hiroshima victims at ground zero.

Mammograms are big business and scary. Count me out.

You can get coconut oil from soap making supply places or from here http://www.popthis.com/cocpopoil.html I get it in the bulk container. Lasts a pretty long time. It does have to ship in cooler weather tho because it is liquid at 76* I've never had it go rancid on me, but every other oil I've tried has gone rancid. This is natural for coconut oil and it does not need preservatives. Foods like baked goods that use coconut oil will keep longer without preservatives too. When bakeries stopped using coconut oil because of the unproven hype about cholesterol, they had to start using preservatives to keep the bread from going stale so fast.

Coconut oil supports the thyroid and will help cancel out antithyroid substances in other foods, so expect to lose weight when you start using it. I cook nearly everything in it now.

Nonhydrogenated lard is the BEST for flaky pie crusts and heavenly biscuits and frying doughnuts etc. The leaf lard is what you want.

My grandparents and greatgrands used butter from their own cows and lard from their own pigs and lived into their 90s. Two of my greatgrandmothers and one grandmother were 98 when they died.

I never use corn oil -bad. I mostly use butter and olive oil.

Another point about the mammograms is that they err on the side of maybe there is something there, to save their butts legally--in other words a lot of biopsies are ordered for something that isn't there. Meanwhile you've gotten poked and sucked for nothing (risk of infection and the trauma of waiting). Also more real cancers are caught by a skilled person feeling the boobs. This info is all by statistics. "I read a book" by a GP based on statistical information of cases, and he recommended that unless you have a family history of breast cancer, then start mammograms around 55-60. Also he does not operate or chemo on breast cancer in women over 70 because statistically those cancers are very slow growing, and statistically the woman will die of something else before the cancer. He certainly biopsies to determine the type of cancer, but he feels if it is a slow growing cancer, it puts more harm and stress to put the older woman through surgery and chemo--in other words, there is a higher rate of death from complications of treatment than from the slow cancer itself.

The book's title was The Last Well Person, don't remember the author name, but well worth reading. It talks about heart disease, back pain, breast cancer, all the common ailments. He does a lot with real statistics(not those put out by the drug companies), and shows how drug companies fool with the meaning of research results. Like, in many studies placebo is just as effective as the drug--and has no harmful side effects--yet you'd have to dig to find that number. ANyways, it was a great book about being well.

Butter, bacon grease when I have it, coconut oil is new to me. I have olive oil and it's ok, but I'm not nuts about it.

My sin is Hellman's Mayonaise, and it's mostly soybean oil. I'm trying to cut back but it's hard!

Jennifer

This is hilarious. When the College of Physicians announced that yearly mammograms for women in their 40s aren't necessary if there is no history of breast cancer in the family.....and I posted that here......well, I was shot down from all sides.....LOL. Now I'm suggesting the opposite and I'm shot down again.

I think people mostly enjoy arguing.

If you can get to that point of view ( a good point of view, not taking it too personally) - then maybe you should reconsider the Weston Price point of view, too. It does go against the grain of most of what we've been taught about health these last 20 years or so - particularly about the negative role saturated fats play in health.

My favorite Weston Price principal is that we all need are lactic digestive enzymes/acids in our diet to help metabolize foods/build energy reserves/general health. I really believe this. If you can. I'd say so check out that part.

We use mostly rice bran oil, olive oil, and butter. Check out the benefits of rice bran oil.