Pass The Butter .. please.
This is interesting . .. .
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 Me dical
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 HDL 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 but 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 means hydrogen 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. 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')!
Chinese
Proverb:
'When
someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you
have a moral obligation to share it with others.
So...., DO IT !
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