Pass The Butter ... "PLEASE"

[nvmommyx6]

GROSS!!!!

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.

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% 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 flavors of other foods.


Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around 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) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)

Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold.

Lowers quality of breast milk.

Decreases immune response.

Decreases insulin response.


HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!
Margarine is ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC..
This fact alone was 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 a find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic . Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?

[elphie]

ewww... I have long said I'd rather have butter than margarine. We have a rule in our house that if our great-great grandmother's wouldn't recognize something it probably shouldn't be ingested.

Thanks for spelling it out so factually. One thing I would add... after making the switch dh and I noticed we didn't need to use as much butter as we had margarine because it was so much more flavorful. We figured the amount of fat was probably about even once you consider that we use less butter.

[mamamia]

I RARELY use margarine anymore. I've read those things before, and I'm swithching to as much natural foods as possible!

However, ahem! I still say a few pizza rolls never hurt anybody.....LOLOL!!

Theresa

[stinkbug]

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/butter.asp

[Michelle]

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/butter.asp

I was just going to ask the OP if she had a source for her post.

[Missy]

I had seen the myth "busted" on some show on tv. Not myth busters, but another show.

As for the being one molecule away...so many things are a molecule away from one thing or another.

And flies ...and moths too...seem to like margarine the same here.

That being said, I prefer the taste of butter. maybe because I make our butter myself.

[DJ1972]

We only buy real butter.

[Parksfamily5]

Very interesting. I prefer butter myself.

[Persimmon Lace]

We are butter users here, except that dh loves Parkay.

http://www.trivia-library.com/a/hist...-margarine.htm

Here's a short version of who discovered/invented margarine and why.

[TheRootedNomad]

I am definately a believer of "the less processed the better for you". I have cut the use of margerine in this house to almost non-existant. We use butter.

[YankeeMom]

We use Smart Balance

[Marie78]

Butter here and very little, only in baking really. I use EVOO or Pam when I cook and the only thing I add butter to is a very small amount to bread when I a make toasted cheese sandwhich(mostly in the winter). I guess baking is the only time I use butter and I prefer butter in baked goods over margarine (plastic).

[cheriede]

I pretty much stay away from margarine. I'm all for using less processed foods.