For your health................
DO YOU KNOW... the difference between margarine and
butter?
Read on... it gets very interesting. . .
1. Both have the same amount of calories.
2. Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8
grams compared to 5 grams.
3. Eating margarine can increase heart disease in
women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter,
according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.
4. Eating butter increases the absorption of many
other nutrients in other foods.
5. Butter has many nutritional benefits where
margarine has a few only because they are added!
6. Butter tastes much better than margarine and it
enhances the flavors of other foods.
7. Butter has been around for centuries where
margarine has been around for less than 100 years.
And now for Margarine:
8. Very high in trans fatty acids ... Triples risk of
coronary heart disease.
9. Increases total cholesterol and LDL (bad
cholesterol).
10. Lowers HDL cholesterol (good cholesterol).
11. Increases the risk
of cancers by up to five fold.
12. Lowers quality of breast milk.
13. Decreases immune response.
14. Decreases insulin response.
AND, HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING! (the
most disturbing facts):
15. Margarine is but only ONE MOLECULE away from being
PLASTIC.
16. And margarine is initially BLACK, but it is DYED
YELLOW to look like butter.
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 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
weenie microorganisms will not find a home to grow.) Why?
Because it is nearly plastic. Would you melt your
Tupperware and spread that on your toast?
Yuk!
Share This With Your Friends. (Butter them up!)
