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Posted by Trayan
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If you still use margarine, you should seriously read this.
Subject: Butter or Margarine
Sure makes me glad I've been using real butter for the last umpteen years......
Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the
turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a
payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this
product to get their money back. It was a white substance with no food
appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in
place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with! some clever
new
flavorings.
DO YOU KNOW...the difference between margarine and butter? Read on to the
end...gets very interesting!
Both have the same amount of calories.
Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams.
Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the
same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.
Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other
foods.
Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few only because
they are added!
Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of
other foods.
Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for
less than 100 years.
And now, for Margarine...
Very high in trans fatty acids.
Triple risk of coronary heart disease.
Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers
HD! L cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)
Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold.
Lowers quality of breast milk.
Decreases immune response.
Decreases insulin response.
And here's the most disturbing fact.... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY
INTERESTING!
Margarine is only ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC!...
This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and
anything else that is hydrogenated (this mean! s hydrog en is added, changing
the molecular structure of the substance).
You can try this yourself: Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your
garage or shaded area and open the top. Within a couple of days you will note a couple of
things:
* no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that
should tell you something)
* it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional
value; nothing will grow on it
Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not a find a home to grow. Why?
Because it is nearly plastic. Would you melt your Tupperware and spread
that on your toast?
Share This With Your Friends.....(If you want to "butter them up")!
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