The truth about margarine.. uck.

sarasmile144

(I hope this was the right forum)

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 to5 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 and 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.
Triples 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 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 MOLECULE away 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).

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 value ; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny micro-organisms 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! And if there is Margarine in your refrigerator, throw it in the trash right now.

taxidermist15

Thats why i dont use butter or margerine.
avocado is my butter yummier too

sarahdee2007

Thats why i dont use butter or margerine.
avocado is my butter yummier too

Ah. Avocados. Heaven.

ThePunkHippie

I mix 1 lb butter with 1 cup olive oil & it spreads just like margarine. Tasty too!

ElizabethRoad

Try looking this up on Snopes, because most of it is crap.

But so is margarine. I butter.

Sl1ghtly

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.

GasMasterFlash

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC.

Did your mom email you this? My mom emails me **** like this all the time.

Did you know that hydrogen peroxide is one atom away from water? Oh no!

I invite you to do your homework when someone emails you random fear-mongering propaganda.

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

mandasimba

Thats why i dont use butter or margerine.
avocado is my butter yummier too

Can't make a good fry up in avacado!

Butter for the win, though, if only for flavor.

Marll

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.

It would be much healthier with beef fat as the ingredient.

Nothing compares to real butter however. Get away from the invented crap and eat real stuff and you'll be more healthy IMO.

Kennkaru

Yes.. most of this is misleading at least and factually incorrect at most. It would be nice if people would make sure they are using reliable, peer-reviewed sources when they are making a statement like this to a large audience.

Besides, the whole "You are obligated to pass this on" just reminds me of those "forward this email or Dwight Eisenhower will come to your house in the middle of the night and break your dishes" things. The truth speaks for itself and doesn't sell timeshares.

However, butter DOES taste better and when used in moderation is a better choice.

kimberly0416

(I hope this was the right forum)

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 to5 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 and 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.
Triples 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 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 MOLECULE away 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).

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 value ; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny micro-organisms 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! And if there is Margarine in your refrigerator, throw it in the trash right now.

Do you have links to verify this?

ElizabethRoad

Besides, the whole "You are obligated to pass this on" just reminds me of those "forward this email or Dwight Eisenhower will come to your house in the middle of the night and break your dishes" things.

That one is true though. I found out the hard way.

Sl1ghtly

Yes.. most of this is misleading at least and factually incorrect at most. It would be nice if people would make sure they are using reliable, peer-reviewed sources when they are making a statement like this to a large audience.

Besides, the whole "You are obligated to pass this on" just reminds me of those "forward this email or Dwight Eisenhower will come to your house in the middle of the night and break your dishes" things. The truth speaks for itself and doesn't sell timeshares.

However, butter DOES taste better and when used in moderation is a better choice.

Dwight Eisenhower did come to my house and break my dishes!! Now I know why.

delipidation

My parents' generation was big on butter during the post-war years, and both of them have the heart attacks to show for it. I've never cared much for butter myself -- it leaves a rancid aftertaste that it seems like I should be able to wash out of my mustache, but never can. I prefer Smart Balance: good flavor, no rancid aftertaste, no trans fats, nothing hydrogenated, high in Omega-3.

AlyRoseNYC

Taste-wise:

BUTTER > MARGARINE


That's all I need to know!

Sl1ghtly

My parents' generation was big on butter during the post-war years, and both of them have the heart attacks to show for it. I've never cared much for butter myself -- it leaves a rancid aftertaste that it seems like I should be able to wash out of my mustache, but never can. I prefer Smart Balance: good flavor, no rancid aftertaste, no trans fats, nothing hydrogenated, high in Omega-3.

My parents generation was also big on butter, yet they have not had heart attacks. Though, they have both been involved in car crashes. It is therefore my conclusion that butter causes car crashes, not heart attacks.

auroranflash

This all is making me want a grilled cheese sandwich really bad.

AlyRoseNYC

This all is making me want a grilled cheese sandwich really bad.

OH. MY. GAHHHHHHHHHHH.

ShifuYaku

Is vegetable oil spread margarine?

tigersword

My parents' generation was big on butter during the post-war years, and both of them have the heart attacks to show for it. I've never cared much for butter myself -- it leaves a rancid aftertaste that it seems like I should be able to wash out of my mustache, but never can. I prefer Smart Balance: good flavor, no rancid aftertaste, no trans fats, nothing hydrogenated, high in Omega-3.

Butter has nothing to do with heart attacks. Butter has been consumed for a few thousand years. It did not suddenly become popular in the post war years. In fact, that's when margarine became popular. Butter contains stearic acid, which is a heart healthy fatty acid that actually protects against heart disease.

Oh, and...


(Correlation does not equal causation.)

gillybumbler

I mix 1 lb butter with 1 cup olive oil & it spreads just like margarine. Tasty too!

Great Idea!
Butter is so good!!!

Atarahh

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC.

Did your mom email you this? My mom emails me **** like this all the time.

Did you know that hydrogen peroxide is one atom away from water? Oh no!

I invite you to do your homework when someone emails you random fear-mongering propaganda.

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

LOL!

tigersword

I mix 1 lb butter with 1 cup olive oil & it spreads just like margarine. Tasty too!

Already been done. :laugh:

auroranflash

(Correlation does not equal causation.)

.......... or ...... DOES IT?

Pirates may hate the cold for all we know. It causes their timbers to shiver?

ShifuYaku

So is vegetable spread like margarine? or is it?

SuffolkSally

I mix 1 lb butter with 1 cup olive oil & it spreads just like margarine. Tasty too!

Interesting. I always have butter but my BF goes for substitutes coz they're spreadable. Do you melt the butter and whisk it all together or what?

Talialala

I've never jumped onto the butter substitute train. The idea of it being a man made butter just didn't sound right, and after researching it years ago, I was right (along with many others).

I love butter Everything in moderation right?

Why substitute when you can have the real thing!

raiderrodney

The same can be said for all the sweeteners, flavorings, etc. Just stay under your calorie goals and use real butter, cream, peanut butter, sugar, honey, etc. Much rather have a couple extra calories than all that artificial bs myself

lloydrt

just a note, I have seen this question asked before, and again, from what I have read and what Dr Oz, who used to be somewhat helpful, I went to various websites, as well as reading health journals

again, be nice and dont hit me.............I bruise easily ,but according to the AHA, American Heart Association

Ill cite their input

http://www.healthcastle.com/butter-or-margarine.shtml

American Heart Association website..........

Butter or Margarine: the Verdict?
BOTH saturated fats and trans fats can raise total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol. Therefore, you should try to minimize the intake of BOTH saturated fats and trans fats.

When we add up the numbers, it's clear that butter contains more saturated fats and trans fat. And remember that butter also contains dietary cholesterol.


Choose soft margarine: The American Heart Association recommends the use of margarine as a substitute for butter. We are excited that many brands of soft margarine do not contain trans fat anymore. Check the Nutrition Facts label and choose one with zero trans fat and no more than 2 g of saturated fats per tbsp and with liquid vegetable oil as the first ingredient.

Here are some brands of soft margarine and cholesterol-lowering spread that meet the criteria:

Becel
Benecol
Blue Bonnet Soft Spread
Canola Harvest Non-Hydrogenated
I Can't Believe it's not Butter
Promise
Smart Balance Light

TXBelle1174

One molecule away from plastic. Flies wont even eat it. I havent touched the stuff since Chemistry class in college. Nasty!

kappyblu

I love butter, too but I just don't behave with it! lol I love the locally made butter that I can get at the deli or the bakery. Soooooo good. But.....butter/other dairy stuff are my food weakness. :sad:

So, I now use Land O Lakes light spreadable butter. Only 50 cal per Tbsp and it's the best tasting low calorie butter/spread/margarine I have found. :drinker:


As for the story, These propo (shout out to HG!) stories like this just help spread falsehoods. My mom sends or tells me stuff like this all the time. Drives me nuts. :grumble: Most margarines these days have cut out the trans fats anyway.