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Butter vs Margarine - Author Unknown

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!

Butter

• Both have the same amount of calories.
• Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams.
• 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...

• Margarine is very high in trans fatty acids.
• Triples the risk of coronary heart disease.
• Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.
• 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 fold.
• Lowers the quality of breast milk.
• Decreases immune response.
• Decreases insulin response.
• Margarine is only ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC...

The last 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).

Try this little experiment for yourself, purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or a 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 a find a home to grow.

Why?

Because it is ONE MOLECULE away from being plastic! It is NOT a food substance. You might as well melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast in the morning?

To read what Dr. Andrew Weil has to say on this issue visit the Naturo Doc

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