Knowing Him Daily

19.April.2026

LIVE LONG AND PROSPER

Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and depart from evil. It will be health to your flesh and strength to your bones. — Proverbs 3:7-8, NKJV

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank. Daniel 1:8

He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and vegetation for the service of man, that he may bring forth food from the earth, and wine that makes glad the heart of man, oil to make his face shine, and bread which strengthens man’s heart. Psalm 104:14-15

For decades we were told that fat was the enemy. Low fat everything hit the shelves, butter got replaced by margarine, whole milk became something to be ashamed of, and an entire generation grew up believing that fat made you fat and that was the end of the conversation.

Here is what we know now. Your brain is nearly sixty percent fat. Every single-cell membrane in your body requires fat to function. Your hormones are built from fat. The fat-soluble vitamins, A, D, E, and K, cannot be absorbed without it, which means that fat-free salad dressing poured over a plate of vegetables is actually preventing you from absorbing the nutrients in those vegetables. Fat is not the enemy. The right fats, eaten in the right forms, are foundational to everything your body was designed to do.

The problem is that the science behind that message was not just flawed, it was shaped by money. In the 1960s, a sugar industry trade group quietly funded Harvard researchers to publish a review that pointed the finger squarely at fat and largely cleared sugar of any role in heart disease, and that funding was not disclosed. The research followed the playbook of the tobacco industry almost exactly, casting doubt on the real problem while protecting profit. And the seed oil story runs even deeper. Procter and Gamble, the soap and candle company, found themselves sitting on mountains of cottonseed oil, a waste byproduct of the cotton industry that had previously been used in dyes, roofing tar, and industrial lubricants. Through a process called hydrogenation they turned that liquid waste into a solid white substance that looked remarkably like lard, gave away over two million cookbooks with every single recipe calling for it, and convinced an entire generation of American housewives that it was cleaner and more modern than the butter their grandmothers had always used. They called it Crisco. The hydrogenation process that created it also produced trans fats, which we now know are among the most damaging things you can put in a human body. It was not science that built the low fat movement, but the industrial waste in search of a market, and a sugar industry protecting its profits.

The swap here is one of the most impactful ones you can make, and it is not complicated. Cook with butter, real butter from grass-fed cows when you can find and afford it, or regular butter when you cannot, because either one is still miles ahead of margarine. Use olive oil on salads and for low heat cooking. Use coconut oil when you need higher heat. When you are reading labels on packaged foods, if you see soybean oil, canola oil, or vegetable oil listed in the first few ingredients, put it back and look for an alternative.

Psalm 104 says He provides oil to make the face shine and food that strengthens the heart. He was not exaggerating. He designed your body to run beautifully on the real things He created, and real fat is one of them.

Make today count and see you tomorrow.