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29 Jan 2011
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 colouring and sold it to people to use in place of
butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever
new flavourings.
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 for margarine.
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 and
only because they are added!
Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the
flavours 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.
Triples 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 times..
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...
and shares 27 ingredients with PAINT
These facts alone were 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 open in your garage or
shaded area. Within a couple of days you will notice 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?
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.
Pass the BUTTER PLEASE |
