On Margarine and Butter

[Oluwato]

Got the email below today and though it wise to share. I haven't had time to research this but I have heard in passing that margarine is unhealthy. I hope someone will perform the test below.
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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 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 colouring and sold it to people to use in place of butter.. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavourings..

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 margarinecan increaseheart diseasein 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 nutrientsin 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 cholesteroland 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 MOLECULEaway 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?

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

[Bunch17]

Got the email below today and though it wise to share. I haven't had time to research this but I have heard in passing that margarine is unhealthy. I hope someone will perform the test below.
*********************************************
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 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 colouring and sold it to people to use in place of butter.. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavourings..

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 margarinecan increaseheart diseasein 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 nutrientsin 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 cholesteroland 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 MOLECULEaway 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?

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

Can you please provide the "evidence" to support all these assertions so we too can appraise it.

Thank you in advance.

[NextLevel]

The kinds of fact sets are generally dumb. They create the false impression that eating this or that thing in particular is how to learn to eat better. The truth is that one has to look at a diet from a holistic and lifestyle perspective in order to understand what its strengths and weaknesses are, and not listen to soundbites that say things like "butter can increase your risk for heart disease by 5,000,000%" or "carrots car reduct your heart risk by 2.3 trillion %".

Butter is very unhealthy. So is margarine. Anyone eating either of them on a daily basis is raising their heart disease exposure.

[Albany]

Abeg,

make una no scare the pants off me, biko ! Which wan be say Margarine shares 27 ingredients with paint ? And it's still being sold in almost every supermarket across the globe ?

[Tola Odejayi]

Whenever I see these words in a mail:

"Share This With Your Friends"

I immediately go here:

http://www.snopes.com

So I did... and I got this back:

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/butter.asp

Excerpts from the link:

The claim that some comestible is but a "single molecule away" from being a decidedly inedible (or even toxic) substance has been applied to a variety of processed foods... These types of statements (even if they were true) are essentially meaningless. Many disparate substances share similar chemical properties, but even the slightest variation in molecular structure can make a world of difference in the qualities of those substances.

Some of the "Butter vs. margarine" mailings circulated in 2005 had this preface tacked onto them:

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.

Contrary to the claim, margarine was not invented as a turkey fattener. It was formulated in 1869 by Hippolyte Mège Mouriès of France in response to Napoleon III's offering of a prize to whoever could succeed at producing a viable low-cost substitute for butter. Mège Mouriès' concoction, which he dubbed oleomargarine, was achieved by adding salty water, milk, and margaric acid to softened beef fat. By the turn of the century, the beef fat in the original recipe had been replaced by vegetable oils.

Whenever I see the distortion of the truth to advance a point, I'm immediately skeptical, even if the point has some validity.

[Oluwato]

Can you please provide the "evidence" to support all these assertions so we too can appraise it.

Thank you in advance.

Please reread my introduction, I haven't had time to research, so there is no evidence to give, it was just an email I received...thanks!

[IZONERE]

Please reread my introduction, I haven't had time to research, so there is no evidence to give, it was just an email I received...thanks!

I thought you were a scientist?

[Oluwato]

I thought you were a scientist?

Yes, I am, that's why I stated I hadn't done the research and I shared the information hoping someone would... scientists do know their limits and boundaries....

[HolyPagan]

So whats the General Consensus at this point?........
Is it OK to go back to slathering the "I can't believe its not butter" then

[Oluwato]

So whats the General Consensus at this point?........
Is it OK to go back to slathering the "I can't believe its not butter" then

Do you have time to carry out the experiment in the email?

[DeepThought]

Munch, munch, slurrrp,
What is all this nonsesense about butter and margarine being unhealthy?
Munch
Munch.

Why are you people disturbing my snacking
Munch
Munch

I swear if I...AAAARgggg. My heart! My heart!!

[Oluwato]

Munch, munch, slurrrp,
What is all this nonsesense about butter and margarine being unhealthy?
Munch
Munch.

Why are you people disturbing my snacking
Munch
Munch

I swear if I...AAAARgggg. My heart! My heart!!

Somebody call 911