About Margarine
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JessyJ03
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So there was this thing posted on my FB page by some weight loss page. It said the following about margarine... and honestly I was grossed out. Is there truth to all this stuff? Anybody else gave up margarine for real butter?
"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 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 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 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 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?
"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 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 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 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 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?
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To be perfectly honest, a tablespoon or two of butter a day isn't really bad for you at all if you look at it from a nutritional POV.0
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Posted before.
All false.
However, I eat butter; not margarine or oleo.0 -
Now I'm terrified of margarine, thanks0
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Not all margarines are the same. You'd have to read the ingredients to decide how healthy or unhealthy it is. Avoid any margarine that has partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated oils as an ingredient.0
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I don't know if all that is true. Never took the time to read up on it. But I don't consume butter or margarine anyway. Coconut oil is the way to go!!0
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Why? Because it is nearly plastic . Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?
When the Zombie Apocalypse happens, I don't know what I might do to stay in a positive nitrogen balance0 -
I only eat Paleo margarine made from Triceratops0
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Don;t know if all that stuff about margerine is true, but I cant believe there's any way congealed chemical soup is better for you than butter.0
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I buy giant tubs of Country Crock and keep them in the bedroom. They don't go bad, and they're great to use ... romantically.0
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Butter for the win! It's natural, it's real, it's delicious, and my body knows how to process it! :drinker:
I eat it almost daily on my toast at breakfast, and use it in cooking all the time. Sure, I swap out butter for olive oil, or will do half & half in some cases, but sometimes you just need real butter. Like my dinner last night - Fish Meunière with Browned Butter & Lemon - one of my all time favorite recipes, and it's full of butter. Actually my entire dinner last night was heavy on the butter, but not super excessive, and as long as I don't eat that way EVERY night, it's all good.
But yeah - I'll take natural butter over a highly processed "spread" any day. :bigsmile:0 -
"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. "
Dude straight out of the gate this is obvious utter garbage. PT Barnum was so right.0 -
Butter for the win! It's natural, it's real, it's delicious, and my body knows how to process it! :drinker:
I eat it almost daily on my toast at breakfast, and use it in cooking all the time. Sure, I swap out butter for olive oil, or will do half & half in some cases, but sometimes you just need real butter. Like my dinner last night - Fish Meunière with Browned Butter & Lemon - one of my all time favorite recipes, and it's full of butter. Actually my entire dinner last night was heavy on the butter, but not super excessive, and as long as I don't eat that way EVERY night, it's all good.
But yeah - I'll take natural butter over a highly processed "spread" any day. :bigsmile:
How is butter natural?0 -
I read it on the internet, it has to be true.0
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it's best to stick to natural foods with natural ingredients. margarine has a laundry list of unpronounceable ingredients. i stick to butter-- milk, cream, salt--- basic is best.0
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I read it on the internet, it has to be true.
It was posted on FB. That makes it irrefutable.0 -
Butter for the win! It's natural, it's real, it's delicious, and my body knows how to process it! :drinker:
I eat it almost daily on my toast at breakfast, and use it in cooking all the time. Sure, I swap out butter for olive oil, or will do half & half in some cases, but sometimes you just need real butter. Like my dinner last night - Fish Meunière with Browned Butter & Lemon - one of my all time favorite recipes, and it's full of butter. Actually my entire dinner last night was heavy on the butter, but not super excessive, and as long as I don't eat that way EVERY night, it's all good.
But yeah - I'll take natural butter over a highly processed "spread" any day. :bigsmile:
How is butter natural?
It grows wild on these
http://www.aspca.org/Pet-care/poison-control/Plants/bread-and-butter-plant0 -
Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC... and shares 27 ingredients with PAINT.
Yes! I learned and confirmed this in my organic chemistry classes in college, as a chem minor/ bio major, have learned lots of scary truths about some of these things... knowing this, I avoid it... never really liked it anyways! And as others have said, check ingredients but butter IS GOOD for you, healthy fats are GOOD!
Why is this scary? Are you planning to add that one molecule to it before you eat it? Most nutrition experts will say to go easy on butter. Not that eating some is necessarily "bad" but few will say it's "good for you".0 -
Butter for the win! It's natural, it's real, it's delicious, and my body knows how to process it! :drinker:
I eat it almost daily on my toast at breakfast, and use it in cooking all the time. Sure, I swap out butter for olive oil, or will do half & half in some cases, but sometimes you just need real butter. Like my dinner last night - Fish Meunière with Browned Butter & Lemon - one of my all time favorite recipes, and it's full of butter. Actually my entire dinner last night was heavy on the butter, but not super excessive, and as long as I don't eat that way EVERY night, it's all good.
But yeah - I'll take natural butter over a highly processed "spread" any day. :bigsmile:
How is butter natural?
This is funny. My 5 year old made delicious butter at school by... wait for it... churning cream and adding salt.0 -
So there was this thing posted on my FB page by some weight loss page. It said the following about margarine... and honestly I was grossed out. Is there truth to all this stuff? Anybody else gave up margarine for real butter?
Why do you have to have either? If you don't enjoy bread without maybe you don't enjoy bread that much. Apparently you can stick olive oil in the refrigerator and then spread from there, never tried it tho. Having said that I occasionally buy organic butter for baking, haven't for ages because it's difficult to get it unsalted here.0
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