The difference between margarine and 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.

Butter vs. Margarine

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

Butter Facts

• 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.

Now for Margarine...

• 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 by up to five-fold
• Lowers quality of breast milk
• Decreases immune response
• Decreases insulin response
• Trans fatty acids, also known as trans fat, is an artery-clogging fat that is formed when vegetable oils are hardened into margarine or shortening
• 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 should be enough to have you avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated - this means hydrogen is added changing the molecular structure of the food

EXPERIMENT: Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage  or  a  shaded area.

Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things:

1. No flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)
2. 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?

Share This With Your Friends.....(If you want to "butter them up")!

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. So..., DO IT!

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