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Butter or margarine?

muleman

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Pass The Butter .. Please .

This is interesting . .. ..



Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put the money into the research wanted a pay-back 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 for margarine.



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 and only because they are added!



Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavor 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 which are outlawed in some countries.



Triples 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 times..



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... and shares 27 ingredients with PAINT



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 open in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will notice 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.

Pass the BUTTER PLEASE



and remember, butter is a food, margarine is a chemical.





 

Cowboy

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Interesting I had never heard that before . I may just have to try the test :w00t2:
 

DaveNay

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I haven't had margarine in the house for nearly 20 years. Butter, and only butter for my family.
 

pirate_girl

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Every once in a while I'll buy margarine, but have always preferred the taste of butter.
 

Big Dog

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I haven't had margarine in the house for nearly 20 years. Butter, and only butter for my family.

Same here ............... I didn't know all those facts, it purely taste for me. I'll go without before using margarine. God forbid when there isn't any in the frig, my wife has heard this rant a many times .............. :doh:
 

muleman

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Funny we had recently switched back to butter from the smart balance as it was getting hard to find around here. The wife remarked how much better she likes the butter for baking and I sure was not going to fight that!
 

Cowboy

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Funny we had recently switched back to butter from the smart balance as it was getting hard to find around here. The wife remarked how much better she likes the butter for baking and I sure was not going to fight that!


I showed that to my wife & she just left to get some real butter as She,s getting ready to bake some zuchini bread :w00t2:. I will take the new tub of margerine we have & do the test just to see how it holds up :wink:
 

pirate_girl

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Funny we had recently switched back to butter from the smart balance as it was getting hard to find around here. The wife remarked how much better she likes the butter for baking and I sure was not going to fight that!

Makes the best pie crust ever!
I love it on popcorn with bacon salt, potatoes- everything!

The only margarine I buy is Fleishman's with olive oil, in the little green tubs and use it on toast.
Used to be a Parkay fan for years because it does taste good.
 

joec

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I have always used nothing but butter, the unsalted type. Even make up my own Ghee which is clarified butter basically.
 

thcri

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Just read an article about three days ago on Margarine versus butter. We pretty much keep butter around the house and that is what we use. Some of the higher temperature foods that I cook I have to use margarine as butter burns and gives it a bad taste.
 

joec

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My grand mother tried margarine one time when it first came on the market and through out what was left after putting some on corn on the cob. I grew up eating real butter and I have never purchased margarine. Just doesn't taste right to me, but have eaten it other people's homes when there for dinner.
 
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