Friday, 25 July 2008

  • BEWARE OF MARGARINE

    This is interesting . . .BEWARE OF MARGARINE !!!
     
     
    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 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 in 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  only because they are added!  Butter tastes much better than margarine and  it can enhance the flavors of other foods.

    Butter has been around for centuries whereas 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 fold.
    Lowers quality of breast milk.
    Decreases immune response.
    Decreases insulin response.

    And 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    ?

     

     



Comments (14)

  • Blaasenborg

    and we eat thi s...
  • harmony0stars

    Eww, gross... I eat "I can't believe it's not butter".... no more for me now! Thanks!
  • mirchi_with_an_attitude

    @harmony0stars - Ha Ha. Thank God I have always preferred butter.
  • moritheil

    As a scientist, I should mention that there is some error in the statement "one molecule away from being plastic."  If you're talking about chemical composition, margarine is itself a molecule; it doesn't make much sense to say a molecule is "one molecule away" from being another molecule.  Could you have meant "one atom away?"

    Plastic is a giant polymer: a compound made up of many individual units.  I know that margarine - as a hydrogenated product - is very close to the composition of a monomer (that is, a repeated subunit of a polymer) but it wouldn't strictly be accurate to say "only one atom away from being plastic" either.

    Nevertheless, overall you are right; margarine is not good for you.
  • Da__Vinci

    Very cool to know.
  • cre13

    I knew about the one molecule from plastic ... I switched to butter about a year ago for that very reason!  Nasty!
  • x_Butterflies_and_Hurricanes_x

    Well... to use the argument that margirine is one molecule away from plastic is kind of useless.  We could use that argument with oxygen and ozone too... ozone is only one atom away from oxygen, but we don't want to breath ozone because it's very detrimental to our health.  Or we can use the argument that water is one atom away from hydroxyl (OH), a very strong base.  Water is also only one atom away from H+ ion, a very strong acid. Salt is a combination of an explosive metal and a poison.

    Honestly, to use the molecule argument is pretty pointless.  One molecule can make something a completely different chemical.  It does not mean that margarine is at all related to plastic.   
  • RedheadAblaze

    OMG. I'm so glad I ran out of margarine. I'm never buying it again. Ew. Thank you for educating me.
  • la_faerie_joyeuse

    "Just one molecule away from being plastic?"


    So is water. And everything else. Geez.
  • TimeToForget

    There are a lot of things that are one molecule away from plastic...

    Trust me, that one molecule makes a huge difference. 

  • a_drunken_cellist

    A professor a chemistry answers the question of whether plastic and margarine are chemically similar.

    http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2004-01/1074274923.Ch.r.html

    The short answer is no, they're not similar.
  • la_femme_inconnue

    I only eat a kind of margarine that is based on yoghurt o.O

    Per 100 gram, it has
    240 kcals, which is very low.
    2g of protein
    4g of carbs
    24g of fat
    of which 8g fat is saturated

    I hope this one is not as bad as the normal margarine...
  • Blue__Summer

    Do you have a source for this information?  The heart disease, as well as all the other proposed facts?  I'm curious, too, if the original composition for margarine is the same as the current one. 

  • MakouBaby

    What's the difference between this and all the other crap we eat? Avoiding margarine won't do squat unless we avoid every other potentially harmful substance we eat.

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