[blparent] Pass the butter please!

[Gabe Vega Via Iphone4S]

I like your line of thinking sir. Thank you for this well-written response. I knew that something being sold every day to everybody for years cannot be that bad and on the brink of killing us all.

Gabe Vega 
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On May 17, 2012, at 12:24 PM, "Michael Baldwin" <mbaldwin at gpcom.net> wrote:

> yeah real old, do a little more reading. It is kind of true, but it depends
> on what margarine your looking at.
> 
> http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/butter-vs-margarine/AN00835
> 
> http://my.clevelandclinic.org/heart/prevention/askdietician/margarine.aspx
> 
> http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/butter.asp
> 
> I really like the part about being one molecule away from being plastic.
> Even a very slight change in the molecular structure of a substance can make
> a huge difference. o2 is the oxygen we need for life, but o3 is ozone, which
> is considered poisonous. You going to stop breathing because the oxygen you
> need to survive is 1 molecule away from a poison?
> 
> Some would argue that all products containing vegetable oil are bad for you,
> and you should only use lard and tallow for cooking.
> 
> No matter what you decide to eat someone is going to come up with some
> research that says it is bad for you.
> 
> now if you want to be careful of something, watch out for dihydrogen
> monoxide.
> 
> http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
> 
> Michael
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Erin Rumer
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 12:33 PM
> To: NFB blind parent listserv
> Subject: [blparent] Pass the butter please!
> 
> 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')! 
> 
> 
> 
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