Heal Your Health With Butter and Lard

For decades, we’ve been told that fat is the enemy. Butter was replaced with margarine, lard with vegetable oils, and raw milk was demonized in favor of ultra-processed alternatives. The government-backed food pyramid—and now myplate.gov—tells us to base our diets on grains and avoid fats like the plague.

But what if they got it all wrong?

What if the very things we’ve been told to avoid—like pasture-raised tallow, schmaltz, lard, grass-fed butter, and even raw milk—are actually vital to human health?

Let’s break it down.

The Truth About Traditional Fats

Before industrial food took over, every culture cherished animal fats. They were used for cooking, healing, preserving, and nourishing. These fats—when sourced from healthy, pasture-raised animals—are rich in fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, and K2), omega-3s, and CLA (conjugated linoleic acid), a powerful anti-inflammatory compound.

Schmaltz (chicken fat), grass-fed tallow (beef fat), and pasture-raised lard (pork fat) were kitchen staples. So was raw milk, unprocessed and full of enzymes, probiotics, and nutrients our bodies recognize.

In fact, these traditional fats are critical for:

• Brain development and mental clarity

• Hormone production

• Nutrient absorption (you must have fat to absorb vitamins A, D, E, and K)

• Stabilizing blood sugar

• Reducing inflammation

  
  

The Low-Fat Lie and the Rise of Chronic Disease

When the low-fat craze took off in the late 20th century, we were promised better heart health and longer lives. Instead, we got:

• An explosion in Alzheimer’s and dementia (your brain is mostly fat—starve it and it stops working)

• Skyrocketing autoimmune diseases

• Record levels of type 2 diabetes

• Behavior and learning disorders in children

• Chronic inflammation and obesity

  
  

Instead of eating nourishing fats, we started flooding our bodies with processed carbs, vegetable oils, and lab-made “foods” created by multinational corporations and pushed by government agencies

And then we wondered why everyone was getting sick.

MyPlate Is a Joke (And the Food Pyramid Was Worse)

Let’s call it what it is: propaganda.

The USDA’s food recommendations aren’t designed to keep you healthy—they’re designed to support industrial agriculture and Big Food. MyPlate and the Food Pyramid push a diet high in grains, low in fat, and reliant on processed, fortified products. It’s the exact opposite of how humans have eaten for thousands of years.

Grains grown in monoculture systems aren’t just empty calories. They come loaded with glyphosate, pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides that disrupt our gut health, weaken our immune systems, and contribute to neurological and developmental issues.

Wheat, corn, and soy—produced at industrial scale—are making us sicker by the day.

The Way Forward: Back to the Land, Back to Fat

Real health starts with real food—raised the way nature intended. That means:

• Fats from animals who lived on pasture, not in confinement.

• Raw milk from cows who eat grass, not grain.

• Food grown in soil that’s alive and thriving—not doused in chemicals.

When you nourish your body with these ancestral foods, everything starts to change.

Brain fog lifts. Energy returns. Hormones balance. Kids focus. Inflammation quiets down.

This isn’t about diet culture. This is about real nourishment. It’s about reclaiming our health from a system that profits from our sickness.

Eat the fat. Drink the raw milk. Support local farms. Heal your body.

The truth has always been right in front of us—buried under a pile of cereal boxes, diet books, and government handouts.

It’s time to flip the pyramid upside down and remember what our ancestors never forgot: Nature knows best.