My daughter sent this to me.

'I don’t know if this is completely true but thought Id pass it on anyways.......interesting!

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 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).


You can try this yourself:
Purchase 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 nonutritional 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?

Share This With Your Friends.....(If you want to butter them up')!

Wow.
I have never used margarine.
I wonder how I knew.

EEEEEWWWWWWW! (throwing out the margarine right now)

Back when everyone was saying butter was unhealthy and I should use margarine I refused to switch. I have only served butter in my home. I can't stand the smell of margarine. When the reports on margarine being unhealthy started to surface I just laughed at all the people who tried to get me to switch. Butter may not be the most healthy food but at least it is food.

I too have refused to use margarine, ever! Wouldn't even allow it in my house. All the times I dieted I went without rather than switch to any butter substitute.

If you are not a food label reader you might want to become one, there are so many foods you might not eat if you knew what was in them.

Willing2, thanks for sharing this information, even if Troublebug is the only person to re-think her choice you have made a difference!

Yea!! Troublebug, toss it and forget it!!

Some is true some is not.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/b/butter-margarine.htm

This website goes through each item in the email stating what is true and what is fiction.

Personally I don't eat margarine because I believe the hydrogen atoms that are forced onto the molecule during hydrogenation are easily detached as free radicals...free radicals damage cells...damage that can lead to cancer

Thanks for passing on the info, I won't ever use it again. Can you believe they would allow such crap on the market. But then the goverment doesn't care about us anyway.

Hi and Welcome Sadiesgirl! Glad to have you in the forums with us.

The FDA sanctions all kinds of nasty stuff in what we eat and drink, we all have to get/be educated and read labels. Generally speaking the less processed the better. One rule of thumb is to shop the outside isles of the grocery store, fruits and veggies, fresh meats and cheeses, a lot of stores offer fresh bread made in house, dairy...all found in the outside isles. Boxed, canned, highly processed - inner isles. This is not a hard and fast rule since beans, rice etc are in the inner isles, but it is a useful guideline, at least I felt it was when I first was made aware of it.

I like my breakfast cereal, go lucky charms!

as for the rest of my food.....if i can make it grow it or butcher it at home....then it should be okay....


as for margarine...never used it...can't stand it

but as many thank you for sharing the knowledge

sharing is caring!