Butter VS Margarine

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Very interesting indeed!




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! 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...

Triple risk of coronary heart disease. Increases total cholesterol and
LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) Lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good
cholesterol) ... Increases the risk of cancers by up to five fold...

Lowers quality of breast milk... Decreases immune response... Decreases
insulin response. And here are the most disturbing facts.... HERE IS THE
PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!


Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC.......And
margarine is initially BLACK, but it is DYED YELLOW to look like butter.
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 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
find a home to grow.
Why?
Because it is nearly plastic.

Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?
 
:eek:
Good to know Kat. No wonder why eating margarine reminds me of eating plastic :D
 
always butter in this household....interesting facts..thanks... :)
 
This link will take you to the snopes.com site about this story. One sentence there says, "This is not a time to be wallowing in butter." Trans fat is the biggest issue here and because of that, we here in this household use Fleischmann's Made with Olive Oil. It has no trans fat and no cholesterol, which butter does have. Bon appetit
 
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