My brother sent me this in an email and I hadn't seen it yet so thought I'd pass it along:
>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.
>
>Eating margarine can </ U>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 & nbsp;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 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 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?
>
>Share This With Your Friends.....(If you want to 'butter them up')!
>
>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.
>
>
>
> Pass the BUTTER PLEASE…..
Hm, I usually go for the cheaper tubs of spread but this is making me think twice!!
Boy, that is a lot of crap in a small package. Am I glad I never liked margarine anyway. I love my butter. I'll bet there are a lot of other margarine type foods out there.
GIL
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"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated"
I heard that before but had forgotten about it, just shows you though that you really need to keep an eye on what you eat because it seems as though supposed regulatory authorities don't really seem to be good enough at there jobs.
Yeah I've tried the magarine trick and it pretty much is true. I had heard it was actually a black color naturally and not the white but who can tell. There is a kid at my wife's school where she teaches that all he eats is margarine sandwhiches...needless to say the kid looks like a twinky.
It used to be white (margarine) and actually came with a little packet of yellow dye you could mash up into it to make it more "appealing"... I can actually recall seeing ads in the magazines that illustrated that when it was first introduced, plus my mom used to tell me about it.
Water is one molecule away from hydrogen peroxide. The slightest alteration in molecular structure changes everything and makes the one molecule away thing pointless.
Margarine is made from vegetable oils, butyrin and water. Plastic are made from long molecules called polymers. Cellulose acetate is a very popular polymer, used in thin films. It's made from cotton. Some rubbers are made from tree sap. The plastic in your soda bottle is made in part from antifreeze. Silicones are made from sand. Vinyl is made from acetylene. The food I eat has whatever my wife puts in it (but I use butter when I prepare foods)
Also, "Butyrate, a short-chain fatty acid produced in the colon, as well as its prodrug tributyrin, reduce proliferation and increase differentiation of colon cancer cells." <<<reduced the reproduction of colon cancer cells
and I am the biggest fan of butter. I just need excuses of having it 
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