It tastes like butter but it’s…

Trying to keep people on a path of good health, health authorities have chanted the saturated fat song for so long that real facts have fallen by the way side.  This is especially true where butter is concerned.

It was first thought that butter, containing saturated fat, was bad for our health and contributed to heart disease.  As a solution and substitute, margarine was introduced as the new saviour, with unsaturated fat instead and therefore, safer for us to consume.

Or so it was thought.

But where did margarine come from? Originally, margarine was manufactured to fatten up turkeys for sale. However, horror of horrors it killed them instead.  Having invested millions into this research, a coming of heads decided to sell it for human consumption in order to recuperate investments costs.  Margarine has been a resounding success for its owners but a total failure for those consuming it.

What makes margarine so different to butter?

Both have the same amount of calories after all.  It’s not the calories but what it does to the heart that is the reason given for eating it in the first place.  Although butter is slightly higher in saturated fats, eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods which margarine does not.

While butter has nutritional benefits, margarine’s nutritional benefits have to added.  There is also no denying that butter takes the taste test.  Eating margarine triples your risk of coronary heart disease.  Why does the heart and stroke association tell you to eat a certain margarine that start with a B?

I wonder how much that company is donating in funds to the heart and stroke association!

Margarine not only increases the bad cholesterol but lowers the good one and can increase the risk of cancers up to five times.  Breast feeding mothers will also find their milk to be of a poorer quality. Moreover, immune and insulin response are decreased

But I think the biggest disturbing fact to reveal is that margarine is one molecule away from being plastic.

You might have heard of this experiment before. Let me tell you that it does work.

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?

Knowing all of that, it’s pass the butter for me. What about you?

Tags: butter, margarine, toxins