Healthy Note

HEALTH FACT

Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys.

When it killedthe 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 topeople 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.. very interesting!

Both have the same amount of calories.

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

Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% overeatingthe same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard MedicalStudy.

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

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

And now, for Margarine...Very high in trans fatty acids.

Triple 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 fold.

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!!

This fact alone is enough to have us avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen i! s 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 shadedarea.Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things:

* No flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (thatshould tell you something)

* It does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritionalvalue; nothing will grow on it Even those teeny weeny microorganismswill not find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic. Wouldyou melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?