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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.

Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53%
Compared with 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
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.

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 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?

I've always suspected as much!

Internet stuffed. double post.

Maybe he means 1 atom. The story's too funny to let it die because of a typo!

CMH; If it indeed was a double post, ya kilt the wrong one!

I can see you managed to read it before I killed the wrong one....

I won't repeat it. Cos I've already repeated it 2 times

However, as a medical student, I don't think butter is that much healthier for you anyway.

As for the experiment, you'd have to do it with both butter and margarine. And even then its quite an unfair experiment, since you'd need to melt both for it to be a fair experiment (they must be in the same state, either liquid or solid).

Adding Hydrogen is not the real reason its bad. But then again, I'd still stay away from stuff thats been hydrogenated, because that means its processed. Fresh foods are still better for you.

some info has been added from someones imagination. there is more to read. some are more technical. this one is a simple read.
GOOD THOUGH


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

This was funny to me as I read further along. IMO sites like this attract the "more intelligent" people so it might not be as appealing to us as it may be to others. Go post it on "countrymanforums.com" and see who says what?

They'd probably say "margarine, saturated, hydrogeniefated... what?"