Month: July 2011

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This is interesting . .. . 

 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….   

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 for margarine. 

 Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study. 

 Eating butter increases the absorption of manyother nutrients in other foods.

Butter has many nutritional benefits wheremargarine 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 wheremargarine has been around for less than 100 years. 

And now, for Margarine.. 

 Very High in Trans fatty acids. 

 Triples 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 times.. 

 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… and shares 27 ingredients with PAINT 
These facts alone were 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).   

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 nonutritional 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?   

 Share This With Your Friends…..(If you want to butter them up’)! 

Two frogs in the milk

This is the story of two frogs. One frog was fat and the other skinny. One day, while searching for food, they inadvertently jumped into a vat of milk. They couldn’t get out, as the sides were too slippery, so they were just swimming around.

The fat frog said to the skinny frog, “Brother frog, there’s no use paddling any longer. We’re just going to drown, so we might as well give up.” The skinny frog replied, “Hold on brother, keep paddling. Somebody will get us out.” And they continued paddling for hours.

After a while, the fat frog said, “Brother frog, there’s no use. I’m becoming very tired now. I’m just going to stop paddling and drown. It’s Sunday and nobody’s working. We’re doomed. There’s no possible way out of here.” But the skinny frog said, “Keep trying. Keep paddling. Something will happen, keep paddling.” Another couple of hours passed.

The fat frog said, “I can’t go on any longer. There’s no sense in doing it because we’re going to drown anyway. What’s the use?” And the fat frog stopped. He gave up. And he drowned in the milk. But the skinny frog kept on paddling.

Ten minutes later, the skinny frog felt something solid beneath his feet. He had churned the milk into butter and he hopped out of the vat.