Disturbing facts on margarine
 

Some awkward facts :o :
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 pay back 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.



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 weenie microorganisms will not a find a home to grow.

Why? Because it is nearly plastic.

Would you melt your Tupperware and ------ 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."

Re: Disturbing facts on margarine
 

You can turn a lot of ---- into a polymer. The effect of trans fatty acids has been known for a long time. The original slang term for margearine was "oleo" Short for Olefin, meaning that it's been well known for a long time that it's an alkene. But you can also turn alkynes and alkanes into plastic also, which butter is.

Re: Disturbing facts on margarine
 

Yeh ill still eat it. If they can make up ---- like this imagine what they'd say about McDonalds :8

Re: Disturbing facts on margarine
 

There's a ton of ---- that's one molecule away from being dangerous.

It ain't as horrible as that email makes it sound...people have ate it forever. Not healthy but not worse than most people's drinking/smoking habits.

Re: Disturbing facts on margarine
 

when oleo was first sold, you have to mix in the food coloring yourself so it couldn't be confused with butter.

Re: Disturbing facts on margarine
 

ive known this for quite a while, plus butter tastes much better than margarine

butter ftw

Re: Disturbing facts on margarine
 

I like my zero calorie Parkay spray butter

http://www.parkay.com/images/products/spray.jpg

Re: Disturbing facts on margarine
 

And aspirin is one molecule away from being LSD. This means absolutely nothing, welcome to chemistry 101.

Re: Disturbing facts on margarine
 

margarine is used for cooking... you cant ------ margarine on some corn on the cob and say mmmm tasty... but when making baked food or rice.. you cant tell the difference

Re: Disturbing facts on margarine
 

I can't tell a difference when ------ing/spraying it versus cooking with it.