Fw: Margarine

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Yeah, better do do without anything at all than to use margarine.

After I learned about margarine a few years ago, I wouldn't use it if they gave it away.

 

 

- J

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Monday, August 22, 2005 3:18 PM

Fw: Margarine

 

Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killedthe turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the researchwanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what todo with this product to get their money back. It was a white substancewith no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it topeople to usein place of butter. How do you like it? They have comeout with someclever new flavorings. DO YOU KNOW...the difference between margarine and butter? Read onto the end...gets very interesting! Both have the same amount of calories. Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to5 grams. Eating margarine can incr ease heart disease in women by 53% overeating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard MedicalStudy. Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients inother foods. Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a fewonly because they are added! Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance theflavors of other foods. Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has beenaround 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 g ood 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 ISVERY INTERESTING! Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC... This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for lifeand 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 shadedarea. Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things: * no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (thatshould 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 togrow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic. Would you melt yourTupperware and spread that on your toast? Share This With Your Friends.....(If you want to "butter themup")!