You can go without buttered bread. But, ever since childhood, I have been using either butter or margarine to make sandwiches taste edible. No matter what kind of sandwich spread I use, butter or margarine is a must to put on the bread first. And when you consider the calorie amount you have from butter added to the sandwich, it is not going to harm you in the long run.
I stopped using butter and magarine in late teens. If you have flabs and want abs stop using it. I don't even use it for cooking for breakfast i had 2 poached eggs on toast with half an avacodo i haven't fried eggs since my teens.
It does harm you in the long run eating heaps of fat.
Nathan Pritikin was one of the first to look into healthy diets after suffering a heart attack. Back in those days doctors ordered rest for cardiac conditions with no other treatment. While his diet isn't perfect has some minor flaws it was something people were put on if they had heart disease and after heart bypass surgery.
Autopsy of Pritikin May Renew Debate
JULY 4, 1985
After Pritikin took his own life by slicing through arteries in his arms with a razor blade, the case routinely was referred to the local coroner’s office because it was an apparent suicide. The autopsy was conducted by Dr. Jeffrey D. Hubbard, a local pathologist, before he learned Pritikin’s true identity, Hubbard said.
In a telephone interview, Hubbard said it was only by coincidence that he subjected Pritikin’s heart to an especially thorough autopsy examination--because the actual immediate cause of death was beyond question.
The account of the autopsy results being published today was written jointly by Hubbard, Dr. Stephen Inkeles, an internal medicine specialist at Pritikin’s Longevity Center in Santa Monica, and R. James Barnard, a cardiovascular disease researcher at the Pritikin program who also holds an appointment at UCLA.
What Hubbard found was a heart remarkably free of disease and coronary arteries that were completely open, without any hint of development of fatty plaques that plug up the vessels of heart disease victims and result in angina pain and often fatal heart attacks. While there were small traces of fatty tissue both in the heart muscle and in the coronary arteries, all four of the major arteries examined were totally free of any restriction--a condition virtually unheard of for a 69-year-old man living in a Western country.The size and weight of Pritikin’s heart were well within optimal ranges, the report noted, and the muscle tissue itself was thick, well developed and uncompromised, indicating the heart’s pumping ability was essentially unrestricted.Pritikin first developed his diet in the late 1950s and insisted for the rest of his life that his nutritional regimen (the Spartan diet emphasizes almost complete avoidance of saturated fats and other substances that contain cholesterol) could not only prevent the development of coronary artery disease but reverse it. The contention was one of the most significant of the controversies surrounding Pritikin’s program.
Pritikin based the argument on the fact that he, himself, had been diagnosed as having heart disease and high blood fat levels in about 1955. He insisted that the diagnosis then established with virtual certainty that his own coronary arteries were blocked when he began his dietary system and that the absence of such plaques on his death would prove the validity of his arguments.
The cholesterol level in Pritikin’s blood dropped from 280 milligrams in 1958--a reading at the high end of what American physicians say is the normal range but which other doctors say is far too high--to 94 milligrams in November, 1984. Doctors questioned by The Times said seeing a patient with cholesterol below 110 would be almost unprecedented in any American physician’s practice.
Nevertheless, said Inkeles, “the autopsy findings are highly suggestive that regression took place, even though we can’t make a definitive statement. I think the message is that if you want to place a bet on minimizing atherosclerosis, the bet would have to be placed on the kind of diet Nathan Pritikin espoused and lived by the remainder of his adult life.”
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-07-04-vw-9280-story.html