Pass the butter please! interesting email about margarine

[bibliophile birds]

not that any of this is exactly news or hard to believe, but this email came from an unexpected source (one of my parents' friends who has thought i was a bit weird) and it was pretty good

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 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 year .

And now, 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.

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?

 

[dragonlaurel]

Yuck

 

[country freedom]

O MY - - EEEWWW!

 

[Denim Deb]

There was something on Good Eats awhile back about butter and margarine. I won't use it either, and have not for years-in spite of the fact that that's what I grew up with. I'd rather spend the extra for butter.

 

[BarredBuff]

Ugghh......Vomit!!!

 

[aggieterpkatie]

Here's what Snopes has to say.

 

[Dace]

I have not touched the nasty stuff in years and I feel badly for those who buy into marketing hype!

 

[TanksHill]

I don't use it either.

But do yo think I should get some for my turkeys???

sorry,

 

[i_am2bz]

Here's what Snopes has to say.

Thanks, always good to not take everything you hear/read/see at face value...

Still, I looooove butter & won't touch margarine even tho I was raised on it.

 

[FarmerChick]

we never used margarine

Mom always bought real butter
I remember she tried Parkay once in a tub and Dad gagged. Never again on that stuff.

I had that "fake" stuff a few times in restaurants--that teeney weeney tub with the pull of foil---yuck---what is that stuff? Honestly it tastes just awful

at restaurants, I ask for real butter and if they only have that tub stuff I make them bring me some real pats or chunks from the kitchen...haha
they do it for me which is nice.....but nope, not eating that fake stuff