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 to recoup their losses, so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back.

Margarine was originally a white substance with no demonstrated food qualities, so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? The makers of it have come out with some clever new flavorings.

Do you know The difference between margarine and butter? Read on to the end. It 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 School Study.

Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients found in other foods.

Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has few and 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 while margarine has been around for less than 100 years.

And now, for margarine...

Very high in trans-fatty acids.

Triples risk of coronary heart disease. Increases total cholesterol, raises 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 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...

So, people actually eat this margarine stuff?
I grew up on a farm with 240 head of registered Guernsey milk cows. Margarine, eh? Never heard of the stuff...

Rich

Originally margarine was uncolored and came with a capsule of coloring [annatto ,a natural color used to make cheese like cheddar orange, IIRC]. You kneaded the color into the margarine so it looked like butter [but still tasted terrible..The medical establishment and others had a big campaign condemning butter but the smarter people like my family saw through the BS and never used margarine.A generation later it was admitted that margarine was the dangerous one.

Lads,

There is nothing, NOTHING like the taste of freshly churned, salted butter on hard crusted, fresh, yeasty bread.

Haven't tasted that combo in 50 yrs!! But still remember it. Relatives in Germany had a small farm and lived primarily on it's bounty. The cows were "field-fed" or "free-range" as the newagers like to say. Like to think I've got some of their independence still running through my fat-clogged arteries!!! Had bread and REAL butter at every meal.

I don't drink "lite" beer, I don't drink "diet" anything, I don't eat "Wonderbread"!!! And no... I don't eat margarine or oleo (look up OLEO on google... scary!!!).

Thanks for bringing this up... and making me drool!!!

Mike

I always use butter.

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OLEO

My grandmother on my mother's side called it that. She was born in 1902 and died in 1990. She lived in Western Pennsylvania. Was oleo something people used back in those day in that part of the country?