Butter or Margarine?

10/20/04

Margarine or butter?
If you answered "butter," I've got some information that will make you glad you did.

Last week an HSI member sent me an e-mail that had been
forwarded multiple times, but appears to have originated from L. Eugene Arnold, M.Ed., M.D.; a Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Ohio State University. Here's what Dr. Arnold writes:

"Do you know the difference between margarine and 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!

For most people, butter tastes better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods (The best flavor claim margarine can make in ads is that it tastes the same as butter)

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

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)

Lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)

Increases the risk of cancers by up to five fold

Lowers quality of breast milk

Decreases immune response

Decreases insulin response

And 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. Nothing will grow on it – not 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?

Share This With Your Friends – (Butter them up.)

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Be well,
Medicine Plants™

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