Pass The Butter...please.
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 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!
Bu tter 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 micro organisms will not 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')!
In : Food News