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TODAY’S QUESTION: Do you use Butter or Margarine for your family?
DO YOU KNOW The difference between margarine and butter?
Consider these facts about butter:
- Both have the same amount of calories.
- Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams.
- 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 many other nutrients in other foods.
- Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few 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 where margarine has been around for less than 100 years .
Consider these facts about margarine:
- Very high in Trans fatty acids .
- Triples the risk of coronary heart disease .
- Increases total cholesterol and LDL (bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (good cholesterol)
- Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold.
- Lowers quality of breast milk.
- Decreases immune response.
- Decreases insulin response.
And here’s the most disturbing fact… 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 a 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 find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic. Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?
While Snopes verifies only some of these facts they do conclude butter is probably healthiest in the long run. My Rheumatologist asks the question, “Why would you put something into your body that has been chemically altered for any reason when it is just as easy and healthier to use natural foods?”
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’.
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Butter….I prefer natural to chemically altered/created anyday!! I make my own from fresh cream….yummm! even better. I can buy fresh milk and cream local with no harmones and no antibiotics and I no longer am lactose intolerant (to this milk and butter any way) You should try it if health is a concern for you.
We usually use margarine but I use butter when baking.
Butter for me please!
butter tastes so much better!
Butter!
Funny you should mention this, we’ve been switching over to butter too. Disturbing stuff!
We’re a butter family here. Heard about most of that stuff a few years ago from my sister & so we switched.
margarine…that is until I read your post! 🙂
Margarine, I am sad to say. I am so picky!
I use butter in baking and then a fat free flavored spray on my food.
I use Butter Spray. I use real Butter when I cook for the holidays.
Butter for cokking and a veg. oil spread called “Promise activ” for toast etc. – it’s cardiologist endorsed?? But don’t know if it falls into the bad boy margarine category or not???
I pretty much switched us to butter about a year ago and that is 99% what we use any more.
Both. It depends on what we’re doing with it.
butter all the way!
Butter… I’d rather use less of a real food.