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Nov 2, 2005
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Just come off holiday but thought I would post this first

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... this 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 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 only 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 whereas 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?

Share this with your friends.....

(If you want to 'butter them up')!

Chinese Proverb:

'When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it,

you have a moral obligation to share it with others.
 
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Hi Smiley,

I assume you found that load of BS on the Internet? It's so full of errors and deliberately misleading statements that it's not worth further note.

But as an example of the errors "Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC" - it sounds impressive - but the sentence makes no sense - the use of the word molecule doesn't mean anything in that context.

It would be equally true to say "Margarine is but ONE WHEELBARROW away from being PLASTIC.

Robert
 
Apr 22, 2006
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Smiley this is one of the most sweeping stupid rubbish post's I have ever seen.

A little knowledge is very dangerous.

Do you not realise that there are many variations in the make up of product from one manufacturer to another or from different brand's from the same manufacturer.

Without the fat content of the butter being made available that comparison is meaning less.

Without the type of oil used in the manufactuer of the margarine

the comparison is futile.

Do yourself a favour stop worrying and which ever one you use just spread less of it on.
 
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After spending 31 years of my life making margarine I can say without contradiction it is not anything like plastic. It is made from the finest oils available (rapeseed, sunflower, fish oils etc. There is no milk in it, just milk powder. Vitamins and flavour are added Ken
 

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