Someone recently commented (appreciatively) that my Blog is very varied! Today's post should prove the point! No profound Advent thoughts - just a copy of an email I have received. It may be "doing the rounds: if so feel free to delete now. But I thought it was well worth spreading (pun intended!) the word. This is not a joke email - serious information here.
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 coloring & sold it to people
to use in place of butter.
It was cheaper than the
natural substance. They have come out with some clever new flavorings...
Do you know the difference
between margarine & butter?
Read on to the end...it 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 & 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 yrs.
And now for Margarine…
Very high in transfatty acids.
Triples risk of coronary
heart disease.
Increases total cholesterol
& LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) & lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good
cholesterol) Increases the risk of cancers up to 5 times.
Lowers the 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 & anything else that ishydrogenated
(this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the
substance).
Open 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 an obligation to
share it with others.
Pass the BUTTER please!
