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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)
Lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol) ....
Increases the risk of cancers by up to five fold...
Lowers quality of breast milk...
Decreases insulin response.
And here is 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 find a home to grow.
Why? Because it is nearly plastic.
Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?
INteresting this...Butter is better than margarine eheheh.
Marg that reminds me I need to get some...cheers for the hint..smile.
Would Flora Proactive count then? It's sort of a very soft spreadable cross between Margarine and Butter, and it's lower in fat.
Ewwwww, that's ... just grose. I mean I never eat margerine anyway but ... that even turns me off of that even more.
Well, Julia Child cooked with butter and ate butter until the day she died at what? age 92? So I will continue using butter.