Can older people eat lard? The doctor gave the exact answer – Nutrition

If okroshka is considered a traditional summer product, then lard can rightfully be considered a favorite delicacy in the cold season. But can animal fat be considered healthy? The Doctorpiter.ru portal has sorted out this issue, Sports.kz reports.

People have used animal fat since ancient times, not only as a food product, but also as medicine. The ancient people treated tuberculosis, bronchial diseases, colds and dystrophy with goose fat, baked milk, badger fat and lard. By the way, the most popular folk recipe with the latter is a mixture of it with cinnamon, ginger and cloves. But lard was used as a medicine in very small quantities.

It’s a completely different matter if we are talking about it as a food product. For many years we were told that saturated fat was harmful, so lard was considered a harmful product. But the years…