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BEYOND CLASSIFICATION PAGES
Pass the Butter
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 calo ries.
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 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
weenie 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?
