According to new study eating little butter are not too bad but it's also not a healthy food either.
"I would say butter is neither good nor bad," said Laura Pimpin of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy at Tufts University, who conducted the study.
"If you can replace it with the more healthful plant-based oils, do so." Laura added.
Based on a systematic review and search of various online academic and medical databases, the researchers found nine eligible research studies including 15 country-specific cohorts representing 636,151 unique individuals with a total of 6.5 million person-years of follow-up.
Over the whole follow-up period, the combined group of studies contained 28,271 deaths, 9,783 cases of cardiovascular disease, and 23,954 cases of new-onset type 2 diabetes. The researchers combined the nine studies into a meta-analysis of relative risk.
"We found a very small protective effect of butter intake on type-2 diabetes — not enough to tell people to eat it, but enough to say this might not be of huge concern for policymakers to be concerned with," Pimpin said.
But some researchers still remain negative about butter consumption.
"Despite the discovery of this study, I am not about to make a huge shift in the recommendations I make about consumption," said Dana White. She is a dietitian and professor of sports medicine at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn.
"Butter remains a very high-calorie and high-fat food with little nutrient density to offer, and therefore still needs to be consumed in strict moderation," White said.
According to The Wall Street Journal average American downs nearly 23 sticks of butter a year.
