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Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killedthe turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the researchwanted some return so they put their heads together to figure out whatto do with the product to get their money back. It was a white substancewith no food appeal so they added the yellow colouring and sold it topeople 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 5grams.Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eatingthe same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in otherfoods..Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few onlybecause they are added!Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavoursof other foods.Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around forless than 100 years.And now, for Margarine....Very high in trans fatty acids.Triple risk of coronary heart disease.Increases total cholesterol and LDL (bad cholesterol) and lowers HDLcholesterol, (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 VERYINTERESTING!Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC.This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life andanything 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 shouldtell you something).It does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritionalvalue; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny micro-organismswill 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!") orhave them around a few years longer.Now do you still like margarine??

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/butter.aspJust to add. As someone here said, be informed.

Quote, originally posted by millster »http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/butter.aspJust to add. As someone here said, be informed. LOL great minds think alike? I do this all the time when people send me things like "your shampoo will give you breast cancer" or whatever... since I've started repsonding with the hoax info, I've hardly gotten any of those emails from uninformed/well meaning friends. Yay!

If I'm going to eat butter ---I want the real thing ---it tastes better. James (vibe)

nobutter is betterCAN-AWD-VIBE

I love butter on everything. Thank goodness for a metabolism!

LOL I just love these "one molecule away" e-mail warnings...Swiffer wet jet is also "one molecule away" from antifreeze.

marg. has lots of trans fat's doesnt it? your body cant process it as well because its human made not natrual. its better to eat non trans fat marg. or real butter i like the real butter too

On the rare instances I need a butter-like substance, I just go for the Smart Balance stuff since I have what the doctor calls a bit of a cholesterol problem. It's good enough for me... Hard as hell to spread when you just take the stuff out of the fridge though. It goes good with a beverage sweetened with Splenda which everyone tells me consists of rat droppings, pesticides, and the like. Good stuff.

mmmm! that just sounds... yummy! LOL

This kind of spam used to make it's rounds where I work quite a bit. Until I started working there, that is. Now that I have used snopes, etc. to consistently debunk this spam, anyone in our office who gets an e-mail like this sends it to me first for confirmation. It also helps to threaten people with locking their network accounts for spreading this garbage without checking the validity of it first.

Now that most margarines have eliminated hydrogenated vegetable oils the differences between butter boil down to:-Butter has fat (80%) made by a cow.-Margarine has fat (80%) made by plants.-Butter has naturally occurring Vitamin A - comes from the forage that cow's eat. Margarine has added Vitamin A that may be synthetic.-Margarine may have added emulsifiers, flavors, preservatives-Butter is usually higher in saturated fat though some nutritionists believe that not all saturated fats are the same and that a lot of the saturated fat in butter is "good" saturated fat.-Aside from Vitamin A neither butter nor margarine is the source of any nutrients (except calories).-Butter usually costs more than margarine in part because the U.S. Govt. has price supports on dairy products and restricts imports.-Most of us think butter tastes better than margarine.Actually there is very little margarine on the market today. To be called margarine, by FDA standard [http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422 ... 66.110.htm] it must have a minimum of 80% fat. In the past decade margarine manufacturers have lowered the fat content and called these products just "Spread". This was not done to better your health but to lower their manufacturing ingredient costs/increase their profits. Vegetable oils cost about 25 cents a lb +/-. Water is essentially free.

I fogot one thing - butter has cholesterol. 30mg per tablespoonful which is 10% of what FDA says is your daily limit. Margarine does not. But many/most experts believe that it is not the cholesterol you eat that is a problem, it is the cholesterol your body makes which is influenced by your saturated fat intake.

I like "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter"!

And oxygen is one molecule away from an asphyxiating gas (carbon dioxide)...Lots of things are "one molecule away"...besides, if plastic is good enough for my car, it's good enough for me! :-PIf you were that concerned about your health, you'd be more likely to not add butter or "spread" to your meals. A great way to cut calories and reduce over eating is to not oversauce things...most sauces are high in salt and make you more hungry...

yeah i didn't know if it was true or not, i thought i typed it in there. but i wanna try the "stick it in the garage" experiment n see what happens. i've always been a real butter fan though one of the funniest emails i got was the "febreeze will kill your pets" one that was spreadin like wildfire. now i grin every time i see one of their commercials because they make an effort to have at least one shot of a dog or it's bed. i think the first one they did had the dog sprayin the febreeze itself