Butter or Margarine?

This story is from a friendly fly that used to hang around a Margarine factory operated by one of the world’s most popular brands of Margarine.

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.

Margarine then 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. SMART NO?

They then came out with some clever new flavorings....

DO YOU KNOW.. The difference between margarine and butter? Read on to the end...it gets more interesting!

About Butter

Both Butter and Margarine have the same amount of calories.

Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams; compared to 5 grams for margarine.

According to a recent Medical Study by Harvard U, 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 whereas margarine has less and that only because they are added;

Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance flavors of other foods;

Butter has been around for centuries whereas margarine has been around for less than 100 years.

And now, about Margarine

Very High in Trans fatty acids.

Triples the risk of coronary heart diseases ...

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 and THE PART THAT’S VERY INTERESTING!

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC... and shares 27 ingredients with PAINT!

These facts alone were enough even for me a greedy fly to avoid margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance.

DON’T BELIEVE ME?? 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 in.

Why? Because Margarine 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')!

Remember the ancient 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.