An opinion about Butter and Margarine

DO YOU KNOW...the difference between margarine and butter? Both have the same amount of calories. Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams, compared to 5 grams in margarine.

According to a recent Harvard Medical study, eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% compared to eating the same amount of butter.

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, when margarine has been around for less than 100 years.

Facts about margarine:

a.. Very high in trans fatty acids

b.. Triples risk of coronary heart disease

c.. Increases total cholesterol and LDL (a bad cholesterol)

d.. Lowers HDL cholesterol (the good cholesterol)

e.. Increases the risk of cancer by up to five fold

f.. Lowers quality of breast milk

g. Decreases immune response

h. Decreases insulin response > >

And the most disturbing fact....Margarine is ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC...or ANY product 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 your garage or a shaded area. Within a couple of days you will notice couple of things. It does not attract flies, or even those pesty fruit flies. Margarine does not rot, or smell differently. It has no nutritional value, nothing will grow on it; even those teeny weenie microorganisms will not find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic.