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Pass the Butter not Margarine

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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 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 flavours 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.

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?

Pass the BUTTER-- PLEASE!
 

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I agree. We always have to keep butter, and margarine in our fridge. My girl won't use butter, and I won't use margarine. I prefer my food to be as real as possible-I don't need genetically modified crap!
 

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Yeah, surprising how until recent years margarine was hailed as the be all end all health food solution, what a joke that turned out to be
 
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Great points. I've been working a lot to get healthier and this is a big part of it. There are many other countries that eat lots of fat and carbs but don't have the weight issue that Americans do. I'm convinced a lot of it is in the crap they putting in our processed foods. Thanks for the info.
 

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Seems to me that it was during WWI when butter was scarce it became patriotic to use margarine. Today there are better options made with olive oil that are better for you than butter...but it sucks
 

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As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists!:yes:
Years ago when margarine was the rave (and the hundreds of butter substitutes became so popular) I tried to go the cheaper route. I decided pretty quickly that there was no such thing as "butter substitute." It's either butter or it isn't...and "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" must have been named by some dolt with no taste buds. I call that stuff "No F***in' way this Sh**s butter"
 

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Great points. I've been working a lot to get healthier and this is a big part of it. There are many other countries that eat lots of fat and carbs but don't have the weight issue that Americans do. I'm convinced a lot of it is in the crap they putting in our processed foods. Thanks for the info.
We are the same way, I have started cooking every meal from scratch every day. We switched back to butter and so on. It is amazing how much processed foods add crap to our bodies. We have both lost weight and feel better after making the switch.
 

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We are the same way, I have started cooking every meal from scratch every day. We switched back to butter and so on. It is amazing how much processed foods add crap to our bodies. We have both lost weight and feel better after making the switch.
It all seems to taste better, as well. We used to have all the reduced fat sour cream and cheeses and such. Now if I buy something like that, I get the one with the fewest ingredients possible. Our last cottage cheese has 3 ingredients. The other ones for sale, had like 15.

I'll admit, there is a flavor to margarine that I look for. I've been eating the stuff since I was a small child, and it's just the flavor you come to expect on toast, etc. But when you make the switch to butter, you realize what you have been missing out on.
 

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My grandmother used it for ever, and always called it OLEO. She still says pass the OLEO even though they have switched back to butter.

I always prefered marg over butter, bbut only because it was easy to spread right out of the fridge. My wife corrected that we have a butter dish on the counter 24/7. The higher salt content slows down the spoiling process in butter and for use we can keep a stick of butter out of the fridge for a week straight and have been doing so for 10 years. I hate when I make toast and have to try to spread cold butter on it.
 
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