[tizaala]

"Pass The Butter ... Please.

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 colouring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavourings....

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 many other nutrients in other foods.
Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few and only because they are added!

Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavours of 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.

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 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?

after watching that program on diet and exercise last week I started only having olive oil on my bread and toast

[Ina]

There's margarine and margarine. Vastly different quality - you can't just say "margarine" and cover everything that's on the market...

But I avoid it where possible anyway. Tastes vile.

[Bionic]

I guess thats a good enough reason to make my own butter
 

[HappyHippy]

I've always been a butter fan  when I heard the thing about the one molecule away from plastic I vowed never to to use it
Like Bionic, enough of a reason to get a house cow and make my own 

[Fleecewife]

There's margarine and margarine. Vastly different quality - you can't just say "margarine" and cover everything that's on the market...

Exactly.   True old fashioned wartime marge was dreadful stuff, but some of the modern spreads, which are still loosely known as margarine, have much healthier ingredients.

[jaykay]

Ha, I eat butter too, good to have that vindicated 

Generally, l prefer things that have the shortest list of ingredients, preferably things that sound like food too rather than things you might make plastic out of 

[MikeM]

I've never needed much presuasion to eat butter over spreads (I read somewhere it's no longer called marge, can't recall why though). I'm no expert milker, but I reckon I'm better at milking a cow than I'd ever be milking a rape seed.

[cleopatra]

they cracked down on trans-fats about 5 yrs ago. i think asda have banned trans-fats in all their homebrand products.

we did buy tins of margarine from approved foods - the smell was appalling and it got fed to the pigs.
the thing about butter for us is we go through it so much quicker as its hard to spread thinly- and it tastes so nicely.
i think if you can make it from less than 5 ingredients and do so at home, it cant be all bad. i doubt anyone could make their own margarine.

[SallyintNorth]

Homemade butter, made from the cream of your own cow - and nothing else - is simply the best

We have noticed that our general health levels have been very high since we started drinking our Jersey's milk, making butter and some cheese from it.  And the ladies rear very healthy calves on it.  I call it Hillie's Magical Liquid.   The lambs did well on it too  (although I found they didn't adapt back to ewe's milk if they got adopted, so only use 100%  Jersey milk on lambs who are past the adoptable stage, they get half-and-half until then.)

It is even the case that some Jerseys, and it seems Hillie is one of them, produce milk which is ok for people who are allergic to most cow's milk.  (Must get one of my cows-milk-allergic friends to test Plenty's milk.  )

[Lesley Silvester]

My name is Lesley and I'm a butterholic.

I admit it.  I don't buy it because I use it by the slice on my bread.

[RUSTYME]

I try not to eat marge if poss , for the reasons in op . I live in a caravan though and in winter butter is akin to bricks . So i use butter for toast and 'buttery spread' for sarnies etc , if the butter is to hard to spread .
Funny thing is , in regard to marge almost being plastic or paint , milk can be used to make a very good paint and also a usable alternative to plastic , because of the casein content !
I use about 1/2lb of butter per week and 2 250g tubs of 'buttery spread' over the winter .

[colliewoman]

Butter every time


If the butter won't spread (or I have eaten it all) I use good olive oil on my 'bread'stuff.


I don't understand why if butter is so terrible lots of  these spreads are trying to emulate them?


feck me it's marge I can't believe it's not butter?? If ya wanted butter why didn't you buy some??


Real food, in moderation nothing could be easier!

[cleopatra]

I live in a caravan though and in winter butter is akin to bricks .

ha,    same here, our house is always freezing and we have to slice the butter which is probably why we go through it so quickly.

[Lesley Silvester]

Now why didn't I think of that excuse?  I'm also not very good at slicing so half inch of butter per slice of bread.   

[tazbabe]

its got to be butter! we don;t eat much bread, but i use it in cooking all the time, the ither stuff is no good, and the list of rubbish that is in it is frightening!