Pass the BUTTER please.......

cebiginalaska
cebiginalaska Posts: 280 Member
in Food and Nutrition
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
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 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).

You can try this yourself:

Purchase 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 a moral obligation to share it with others.
So Pass the BUTTER PLEASE
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Replies

  • KarenJanine
    KarenJanine Posts: 3,497 Member
    It's a myth. http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/butter.asp
  • jcreazy
    jcreazy Posts: 50 Member
    It's a myth. http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/butter.asp

    I was about to post the same thing.

    As for which one I use, I use neither.
  • cebiginalaska
    cebiginalaska Posts: 280 Member
    LOL got this from a friend in an email :)
  • michaelachallis
    michaelachallis Posts: 137 Member
    Hhahah.... even though it is a myth i refuse to eat margarine. I mean butter is too damn good. And less processed.
  • akb2006
    akb2006 Posts: 198 Member
    ^^ ITA!
  • blably
    blably Posts: 490 Member
    so its not true? i got that in my inbox weeks ago.... and i dont really eat either, i sometimes put a scoop of butter in my potatoes but thats iz.
  • Chadomaniac
    Chadomaniac Posts: 1,785 Member
    BUTTER is from milk which is from a cow ... ill stick to that while u eat your chemicals
  • Lyadeia
    Lyadeia Posts: 4,603 Member
    Did you guys even read what Snopes has to say? Because it is not a total myth. Snopes even says that there are LOTS of truths in the above.

    While it is wildly exaggerated at parts, a great deal of the info is true.

    I prefer real butter anyway.
  • KarenJanine
    KarenJanine Posts: 3,497 Member
    Hhahah.... even though it is a myth i refuse to eat margarine. I mean butter is too damn good. And less processed.


    This too! Butter is so much tastier :)
  • Judybowler
    Judybowler Posts: 20 Member
    WWWOOOOOWWWW!!! Thanks for sharing!!
  • sunnyside1213
    sunnyside1213 Posts: 1,205 Member
    Did you guys even read what Snopes has to say? Because it is not a total myth. Snopes even says that there are LOTS of truths in the above.

    While it is wildly exaggerated at parts, a great deal of the info is true.

    I prefer real butter anyway.

    This. I will stick with butter.
  • cindaroses
    cindaroses Posts: 117
    Just stick with butter! A lot of that information is true. We have a lot of health problems and we eat a lot of fake artificial food. The other day I saw lemondade....it said 0% juice...That tells you something!
  • daphne_m
    daphne_m Posts: 84
    I thought margarine came about because Napoleon needed a butter substitute to keep the troops going. An enterprising chemist produced margarine and the rest is, well, history.

    Call me an old stick in the mud but I prefer to get my dietary advice from registered dieticians instead of anonymous email forwards.
  • tomg33
    tomg33 Posts: 305 Member
    I never really got this... If you're eating so much butter that switching to margarine would make a significant difference in your total weight loss, then the problem isn't with butter the problem is with you! :D
  • Colombianchick29
    Colombianchick29 Posts: 298 Member
    WOW! Thanks for sharing!! I will make sure never to buy margirine again!
  • now_or_never13
    now_or_never13 Posts: 1,575 Member
    It's a myth. http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/butter.asp

    Yup... not sure why people don't research before thinking something is true. This has been going around for a while.

    I don't consume a lot of butter or margarine. For the price of butter where I am, I stick with margarine because I don't consume a lot of it. It is not one molecule away from plastic.
  • jade2112
    jade2112 Posts: 272 Member
    Margarine is disgusting and I won't use it. Margarine was actually banned here in Wisconsin until 1967.
  • Trilby16
    Trilby16 Posts: 707 Member
    I make my own spread by combining softened butter and safflower oil. Have not eaten margerine in YEARS!
  • lloydrt
    lloydrt Posts: 1,121 Member
    I remember reading that the CDC, and the Mayo clinic both recommend Margarine over butter

    I looked it up.........my citing is the Mayo Clinic http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/butter-vs-margarine/AN00835

    quote from the Mayo Clinic

    "Margarine usually tops butter when it comes to heart health.

    Margarine is made from vegetable oils, so it contains no cholesterol. Margarine is also higher in "good" fats — polyunsaturated and monounsaturated — than butter is. These types of fats help reduce low-density lipoprotein (LDL), or "bad," cholesterol when substituted for saturated fat.

    Butter, on the other hand, is made from animal fat, so it contains cholesterol and high levels of saturated fat.
  • langsyne
    langsyne Posts: 106 Member
    I have never knowingly used margarine, nor will I...ever.
    Regardless whether or not it's toxic, one molecule away from being plastic,
    heart healthy (that I doubt), the stuff is disgusting. For the amount of butter I use,
    I'll stick with the saturated fat in the real food, thank you.
  • silverflash101
    silverflash101 Posts: 10 Member
    The only way that I can ever handle butter if it is in small melted quantities, or baked into something, like cakes. I can't eat butter solid spread on bread, because it makes me feel ill. I can just about manage margarine, but I tend to forget about butter and margarine and eat bread plain instead.
  • NZhellkat
    NZhellkat Posts: 355 Member
    My BIL posted a study on FB that showed that consumption of margarine irriates the arteries with allows the build up of cholesterol. If I could find it I would post the link. Again natural vs. man made.
  • Cr01502
    Cr01502 Posts: 3,614 Member
    I only use margarine as a lubricant.
  • HotMummyMission
    HotMummyMission Posts: 1,723 Member
    And that is why I don't eat. Butter ... Lighter than light mayor or me :)
  • sullus
    sullus Posts: 2,839 Member
    Margarine has one acceptable use to me: Buffalo wing sauce. It's tastes "wrong" with butter.
  • stephdeeable
    stephdeeable Posts: 1,407 Member
    Thanks for the info - I've been looking for an easy way to mass-murder turkeys!!! :bigsmile:
  • Sweets1954
    Sweets1954 Posts: 507 Member
    My grandparents lived on a farm and produced a lot of their own food. They always had a milk cow and made their own butter. I spent a lot of time with them when I was a child and developed the taste for butter, margarine never has the same flavor. I remember my mother using margarine because it was cheaper but once I was on my own I only bought butter. Having read the research on margarine, I will never eat margarine. I would much rather have small amounts of butter on things that really matter (toast, mashed potatoes, etc) and allow for the calories in my daily allotment. The same with sugar and sugar substitutes. I'd much rather have the real thing than chemicals.
  • Factory_Reset
    Factory_Reset Posts: 1,651 Member
    I only use margarine as a lubricant.

    QFT

    Morning Honey :wink:
  • EmmaKarney
    EmmaKarney Posts: 690 Member
    Real butter all the way - just in moderation, as with everything. (When I say everything, I mean real food - not chemicals!)
  • kappyblu
    kappyblu Posts: 654 Member
    I eat real unsalted butter or the light Land O Lakes butter that is mixed with vegetable oil. It's spreadable, only 50 calories per tablespoon and reallly good. Sometimes I splurge and get the European butter (I think it's Irish or Danish) or the Amish unsalted butter that this little deli sells that is brought in from a nearby community. Sooooo freaking good.:flowerforyou:

    But no, I do not eat margarine. I don't know if all that in that story is true, but I choose not to eat it anyway. Just butter and in moderation. :drinker:

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