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% 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 the 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 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?

Pretty bad, huh?
I have already started using more butter. I believe that margarine is on
it's way out of my house.

Kat

thanks for the 411. I always liked buter better now I know why

Carebear....is that you???? From you know where...
Kat

Unbelieveable that they would market death... Then again... Thanks

Not to Hijack

Take a piece of Velvetta cheese (??????????)
Put it outside on a flat surface where ants, birds, whatever can get at
it. Very interesting what happens & WHY are humans eating it. Madison
Ave. got us again.

This area has become a passion of mine. Want more, mail me.

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

Yeah, do pass the butter........and while you're at it hand me that
plate of crumpets too

spider, how do you use that site anyway? I mean how do you ask a
spacific question?

I will try and check it out. But, I do know my Dr. and my grandmas Dr.
told me, my mom and my g ma not to eat margarine. They said it is an
arterie clogger and that it is dangerous. That anything that does not
melt setting out is bad. By melt I mean to a liguid form.
Kat

I do not know about velveeta. I do not eat it. I will however be doing
the fly thing with margarine.
Kat

Whenever margarine is to hard to spread I nuke it in the microwave oven,
and it melts...

I haven't tried leaving it outside, but if it sits on the kitchen
counter it becomes a puddle, unusable... Is panamanian margarine in
anyway different? Anyhow, I like the taste of butter better...

I only use velveeta cheese to make baked macarroni... You mean to tell
me is not cheese? What have I been feeding my family?

I want to barf...

I love butter, oh did I say that already ?

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