Margarine VS Butter

Pass the butter please. Margarine was originally manufactured by fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money in to the research wanted a pay check 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 to no food appeal, so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to the 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 8grams compared to 5grams.

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 only a few because they are added! Butter taste 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). Increase 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 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 notice within 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 weenie micro organisms 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 to your friends (if you want to butter them up)!

Chinese proverbs: when someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others. So do it.