WillowDancer
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Pass The Butter ... please.
This is interesting . .. .
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 gramscompared to 5 grams.
Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by53% 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 flavors 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) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)
Increases t he risk of cancers up to five fold.
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 beingPLASTIC..
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 frui t 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?
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3/1/2009, 12:02 pm
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Zonipa
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Re: Pass The Butter ... please.
Nasty isn't it? I've been using unsalted butter for years 
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3/1/2009, 12:37 pm
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WillowDancer
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Re: Pass The Butter ... please.
being a former farmer (say that 10 times fast) 
I wouldn't touch margarine if it were free~ Bad Stuff!!!
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3/1/2009, 10:23 pm
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lol, I did.... farmer former is what I got 
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3/2/2009, 7:53 am
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Re: Pass The Butter ... please.
Thank you for all of that VERY useful and disturbing info. I have just one thing to say about Margarine...
YECH!
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WillowDancer
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Re: Pass The Butter ... please.
can y'all imagine all of the tons of that stuff
people are eating and feeding their kids in an effort to cut calories or fat intake, or to
save a few pennies on their grocery bill?
And manufacturers are getting away with promoting this gunk as heart healthy
and the lesser of two evils...shame, shame, shame! 
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3/2/2009, 10:48 am
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Re: Pass The Butter ... please.
Check this out!
What SNOPES has to say!
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3/2/2009, 11:27 am
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Re: Pass The Butter ... please.
thanks for the info Z, like anything else
circulating on the internet...we need to
check out the facts vs. the fiction...
I'll still stick to my butter over margarine
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