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DO YOU KNOW... the difference between margarine and butter?
Read on to the end...gets very interesting!
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Both have the same amount of calories.
Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams
compared to 5 grams.
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Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by
53% over eating the same amount of butter,
according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.
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Eating butter increases the absorption of many
other nutrients in other foods.
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Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine
has a few only because they are added!
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Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can
enhance the flavors of other foods.
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Butter has been around for centuries where
margarine has been around for less than 100 years.
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And now, for Margarine..
Very high in Trans fatty acids.
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Triple risk of coronary heart disease.
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Increases total cholesterol and LDL
(this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL
cholesterol, (the good cholesterol) .
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Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold.
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Lowers quality of breast milk.
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Decreases immune response.
Decreases insulin response.
And here's the most disturbing fact....
HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!
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Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being
PLASTIC..
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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).
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You can try this yourself: & lt; BR>
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:
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* 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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Share This With Your Friends.....
(If you want to 'butter them u p')!