The below email received 10/05/07 (Thanks
MaryJane)
Interesting... I saw a doctor on the Oprah
show
talking about margarine and how bad it is
for you and
that even though butter is more fattening
at least the
body can process it. He indicated that the
body
doesn't know what to do with margarine or
other
hydrogenated fats and it just sits there
(wherever
"there" is). Kinda scarry! > >
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...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?
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. So...,
DO IT !
I am going to purchase my BUTTER tomorrow!
