Would you pass the plastic, please?

Pass the butter ~ ~ ~ ~ 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.

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) and lowers
HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)

Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold.

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..
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 a find a home to grow.
Why? Because it is nearly plastic.
Would you melt your Tupperware and spread
that on your toast?

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