[blparent] Pass the butter please!

[Erin Rumer]

Hello list,

 

This is some interesting and amazing facts about margarine and butter that I
thought you'd all like to read since we're always concerned about putting
the right things in our children's mouths as well as our own.

 

Enjoy,

 

Erin

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 withPAINT 
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). 
Open 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 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')!