Margarine or Butter

[Esther]

I have not check to assure this is not a hoax. But found it interesting.

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.
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 spread that on your toast?
Share This With Your Friends....... (If you want to "butter them up")!

[Digging4Truth]

Velly, velly, intellesting.

[MissBrattified]

BUTTER!!!! Margarine is a SIN in our house. NO Margarine. BUH-LECH!

[ILG]

I love real butter. I do use some margarine but am trying to phase it out. NOt always easy.

[MissBrattified]

I love real butter. I do use some margarine but am trying to phase it out. NOt always easy.

How is it not easy??? What in the world do you use margarine for that you can't use butter? :nah

[ILG]

How is it not easy??? What in the world do you use margarine for that you can't use butter? :nah

Sorry to have offended your highness. :)

[MissBrattified]

Sorry to have offended your highness. :)

It was NOT a rhetorical question! :smack Tell me...PLEASE...so I can help you use butter or some other, better oil instead! :hypercoffee

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

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[HeavenlyOne]

I have not check to assure this is not a hoax. But found it interesting.

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.
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 spread that on your toast?
Share This With Your Friends....... (If you want to "butter them up")!

Yep, it's a hoax. Some info is correct or accurate and some isn't even close.

For instance, margarine doesn't increase cholesterol because it doesn't contain any, but butter does, yet the email above says opposite.

Don't believe everything you hear in email......LOL!

Good reading all the same, however.

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

Collected via e-mail, 2006]

Is velveeta processed cheese food really one molecule different from plastic?
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.

In 1886, New York and New Jersey prohibited the manufacture and sale of yellow-colored margarine, and by 1902, 32 U.S. states had enacted such prohibitions against the coloration of the spread. (Folks got around this by mixing yellow food coloring into the white margarine.) In 1950 President Truman repealed the requirement that margarine be offered for sale only in uncolored state, which led to the widespread production of the yellow margarine that has come to be the norm.


The Butter Truth from Snopes.com (http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/butter.asp)

[HeavenlyOne]

That's correct about one molecule actually making a world of difference in a substance.

Ever drink peroxide? It's just one molecule away from being water, but it's poisonous to drink with that extra molecule in there.

[ILG]

It was NOT a rhetorical question! :smack Tell me...PLEASE...so I can help you use butter or some other, better oil instead! :hypercoffee

Well, that spread is just soooooo.......spreadable. And the margarine is cheap. I have been slowly converting to a lot of different things....from regular milk to milk that doesn't have hormones added and also to organic. Organic fruits and vegetables etc. It is expensive to do. So, I just get what I can when I can get it reasonably. I don't find the organic at Wal-Mart to be very good, but we have a co-op here in town that I can taste the difference in the fruits and vegetables. It makes you never want to eat anything else.

So, Miss BF, do YOU eat only organic butter?? It is VERY expensive, but is much better for you minus all the hormones etc.

[MissBrattified]

Well, that spread is just soooooo.......spreadable. And the margarine is cheap.

Let your butter soften before you use it, and its equally spreadable. I agree...margarine is cheaper...but I figure I'm worth butter. :D

I have been slowly converting to a lot of different things....from regular milk to milk that doesn't have hormones added and also to organic. Organic fruits and vegetables etc. It is expensive to do. So, I just get what I can when I can get it reasonably. I don't find the organic at Wal-Mart to be very good, but we have a co-op here in town that I can taste the difference in the fruits and vegetables. It makes you never want to eat anything else.

You are right. It is wayyyyyy more expensive to eat healthy foods, I don't care who says otherwise. I can stock up enough food for a week for a family of 6 for $100...IF I buy frozen pizzas, burritos, chips, and bologna. However, if I buy lean meats, whole grain cereals, organic dairy products, and lots of fresh fruits and veggies...well, we're talkin' at least twice that, per week. The only way around it is if we eat beans a lot, which is both healthy and frugal...but who wants beans every night? I don't....

So, Miss BF, do YOU eat only organic butter?? It is VERY expensive, but is much better for you minus all the hormones etc.

No...I don't...you've trumped me! But I do occasionally buy organic milk and eggs...when we can afford it.

You are right, though; cost is an issue.

[HeavenlyOne]

but who wants beans every night? I don't....



And who wants to sleep in a house full of people who eat beans every night? I don't.......




:D

[ILG]

And who wants to sleep in a house full of people who eat beans every night? I don't.......




:D

That's why they make Beano. :)

[ILG]

Let your butter soften before you use it, and its equally spreadable. I agree...margarine is cheaper...but I figure I'm worth butter. :D



You are right. It is wayyyyyy more expensive to eat healthy foods, I don't care who says otherwise. I can stock up enough food for a week for a family of 6 for $100...IF I buy frozen pizzas, burritos, chips, and bologna. However, if I buy lean meats, whole grain cereals, organic dairy products, and lots of fresh fruits and veggies...well, we're talkin' at least twice that, per week. The only way around it is if we eat beans a lot, which is both healthy and frugal...but who wants beans every night? I don't....



No...I don't...you've trumped me! But I do occasionally buy organic milk and eggs...when we can afford it.

You are right, though; cost is an issue.

You have 6 people in your family?

But, yes, two can play the game of "I eat better than you!" And we can all say why there is no excuses etc. But, it takes time, research and money to make it all work. I have been on the journey of eating better for years and every once in a while I up the ante on myself. Of course, I usually end up glad I did.

[HeavenlyOne]

That's why they make Beano. :)

So there'll Beano gas? LOL!

[HeavenlyOne]

You have 6 people in your family?



I think she forgot to mention something, what do you think? :killinme

[ILG]

I think she forgot to mention something, what do you think? :killinme

No kidding!! Maybe that's her dog and cat??

[HeavenlyOne]

No kidding!! Maybe that's her dog and cat??

Uh......ixnay on the ogday. It died a week or so ago. :(

[ILG]

Uh......ixnay on the ogday. It died a week or so ago. :(

MB's did?? Sorry!!

[HeavenlyOne]

MB's did?? Sorry!!

Yeah, but I don't know how it happened.

I'm still puzzled as to the six in her family she is buying groceries for. Doesn't sound to me like the animals are involved in those numbers.....LOL!

[MissBrattified]

My mother lives with us! LOL u2...no new babies to speak of. :)

[HeavenlyOne]

Yet? LOL!

[Felicity]

Butter! There's nothing that can take its place!

I use marg for baking quite a bit but use butter at the table solely ... and for lots of things I cook as well.

[HeavenlyOne]

You folks with family histories of high cholesterol and heart bypass surgeries just keep eating that butter. I'll have a job as long as you hold up your end of the bargain.....LOL!

[Felicity]

You folks with family histories of high cholesterol and heart bypass surgeries just keep eating that butter. I'll have a job as long as you hold up your end of the bargain.....LOL!Heart trouble runs on my dad's side of the family - not my mom's though. I'm not sure the problem is butter. I think it's more a genetic thing.

Everything in moderation. :)

[HeavenlyOne]

Heart trouble runs on my dad's side of the family - not my mom's though. I'm not sure the problem is butter. I think it's more a genetic thing.

Everything in moderation. :)

I give meds in moderation. ;)

[LaVonne]

We only use butter in our house. I bake with it as well.

[ILG]

You folks with family histories of high cholesterol and heart bypass surgeries just keep eating that butter. I'll have a job as long as you hold up your end of the bargain.....LOL!

Margarine is supposed to be worse according to many health food people and nutritionists!

[HeavenlyOne]

Margarine is supposed to be worse according to many health food people and nutritionists!

One has to weigh the pros and cons for each. Personally, I use Fleishmann's with olive oil. No cholesterol nor transfats.

[LaVonne]

Margarine is supposed to be worse according to many health food people and nutritionists!

It's terrible stuff...and unnatural at that!

Butter and Olive oil, used in moderation are not going to cause heart disease.

[HeavenlyOne]

It's terrible stuff...and unnatural at that!

Butter and Olive oil, used in moderation are not going to cause heart disease.

Butter doesn't cause heart disease, but people with a predisposition to it, especially family history, shouldn't consume it.

Olive oil has no cholesterol. :D

[MissBrattified]

Butter doesn't cause heart disease, but people with a predisposition to it, especially family history, shouldn't consume it.

Olive oil has no cholesterol. :D

Olive oil is Da Bomb! :hypercoffee

[HeavenlyOne]

Olive oil is Da Bomb! :hypercoffee

I have lots of it......cook with it all the time. Love the stuff!