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Margarine Or Butter? Read This

Butter or 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. 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.

Butter
1. Both have the same amount of calories.
2. Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared
to 5 grams.
3. Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53%
over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard
Medical Study.
4. Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients
in other foods..
5. Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few
only because they are added!
6. Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the
flavors of other foods.
7. Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been
around for less than 100 years.

Margarine
1. Very high in trans fatty acids.
2. Triple risk of coronary heart disease.
3. Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad
cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)
4. Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold.
5. Lowers quality of breast milk.
6. Decreases immune response.
7. Decreases insulin response.
8. 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 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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Ok, that is really gross. Enough to make me never want to eat margarine again. Unfortunately, I think I might have a hard time convincing my husband because it is way cheaper than butter. We actually only use margarine or shortening (I'm assuming its just as bad) for baking because we use Brummel and Brown spread, which uses yogurt to thicken the oil rather than being hydrogenated, and has no transfats. And I think it has less fat in general too. I wonder if there is any difference in health between the tub margarine and the stick?

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Oh boy, I always purchase margarine because as Dimavo pointed out it is so much cheaper. I am not a fan of it but it's my choice for baking.

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I read Konquererz's post today, I knew about this beforehand, but hand long since put it behind me. I went in the grocery today, and looked at the butter and then looked at the margarine, I then remembered this thread. I then looked at the price of butter and the price of margarine... I picked up two bars of margarine and left. Sorry, but until I get a goodly number of jobs it seems that health takes second place - as sad as that may be.

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I have to agree with JB. Eating healthy costs too much these days. Both margarine and butter have their pros and cons, so I'll just stick with the one that was on sale when I went grocery shopping.

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Totally frightening!
I read this thread and shuddered. I honestly had no idea that health wise, there was such a huge difference. Obviously taste wise you would expect there to be a difference.I suppose you pay for what you get, I personally don't tend to use as much butter or margarine as I used to, but only because some of my family members have an intolerance to bread, and I would feel mean eating it in front of them, so I tend to try to refrain from consuming it in front of them.
Obviously after having read this thread,and the awful statistics for women having increased heart disease risk, I am only going to buy butter fom now on, probably the spreadable type that they now do, as I haven't got much patience for trying to spread rock hard butter straight from the fridge!

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This is my rationale for avoiding many modern processed foods. Our ancestors ate real butter, real sugar, real meat, and real grains. They have proven these foods. For me, the benefits of margerine do not outweigh the safety and goodness of butter. The benefits of NutraSweet or Splenda do not outweigh the time-tested safety of plain sugar. Thus, I try not to eat anything that says "Diet" on the packaging, because those products usually have plenty of chemicals that I can't pronounce in them. I'd rather stick with real foods.

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I agree with you Howe6079, I tend to try to stick to "natural basics" too,although I do eat junk food, I try to use natural ingredients when I am cooking, because basically you can't go too far wrong, and at least the vegetables haven't had added processed 'rubbish' added to them.

I don't trust any of these saccharin type replacement sugars either, and I try to use foods that contain their own natural sugars.

The margarine versus butter issue, has been a real awakener to me, and I'm going to revert back to using "real butter".