Sunday, 3 February 2008

Pass the butter, please !

Not sure if this is true but when i goggled the difference between butter and margarine, most of the sites have the same info as this.... Read on and if any of you can help verify this it would certainly help a whole of us who loves to eat 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 ! 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 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 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?  

16 comments:

nurul QiMah said...

hmm so should i eat margarine or butter? hmm

Salma Hassan said...

dua2 tak mau eh......take ghee lah instead...hehe...in small qty jer tau!

Marlisa Taufik said...

I think its difficult to avoid butter as its used in most cookies and cakes! Margarine.. is easier to do without! But if you see nowadays punya margarine.. I just bought yesterday.. its written no hydrogenated or trans fats... Maybe they have improvise these margarine! hehehe

Lynn A said...

but how to eat ghee with bread eh?? ;)

Lynn A said...

precisely!

nurul QiMah said...

precisely.. =(

Shaikha Mom said...

my niece that took bio-chem said exactly the same thing !!
Kalau nak makan Ghee wif bread tu... goreng jer dgn telor, yum !!
But this u can try... OLIVE oil !! healthy & nice... pour a bit of Olive oil, springkle some oregano (or other spices) & celop wif bread !! .. so yum !! In between, eat the Olives (fruit) !!

Zurynee Amir said...

Best is to stick with butter but eat moderately. I have switched to olive oil spread for quite sometime ored. Tastes better than regular margarine.

Salma Hassan said...

Toast bread, then spread ghee sparingly....or spread ghee on bread and toast in the oven.....can add garlic or herbs for that extra umph! teeheee.... But like Zukitchen said... best is olive oil ma.....very the healthy noh......but now got grapeseed oil....lagik healthy ek!

Lynn A said...

hmm... never tried toast bread with ghee...sounds appealing... will try that and olive oil too.. thanks for sharing!!!

Lynn A said...

thanks dear...

Lynn A said...

Agree.. eat with moderation. But I'm yet to try olive oil spread... Thanks!

et hanako said...

hahahahhahaha.....
been avoiding margarine since forever! never liked the taste....plastik ghopenyer..... :P
love olive spread too....
lyn, i guess that's y i have all those excess baggage all my life....my tongue just knew which is gud and which to avoid...hehehehehehe...

Lynn A said...

hahahhaa... good for you.... i mean having good taste bud but not the excess baggage though..hahha...kalau i suka butter...

Frejos FJ said...

abt butter & margarine, dis issue has been a huge debate for some time..im reading dis site abt d debate..interesting..d margarine nowadays has been modified tremendously trans-fat free & using plant oil..esp in Europe & US where obese probs and heart diseases are on d rise nw...not forgetting Asia..
peep, u can read dis site dat provide d debatable issue abt margarine and butter

http://www.margarine.org/nutritionallyspeaking.html

as for olive oil, they are d best, for salad,nice for dipping and spread on baguette wif some fresh garlic spread on to the bread sprinkle wif black pepper n herbs then toast them..dats rely yummy..dah jadi garlic bread! ive been switching extra olive oil for cooking for better healthy lifestyle..bit exp tho..
i think wot we nid sis is the equal balance of every food dat we consumed, read the ingredients carefullly and make sure we know wot every scientific terminology dat being used to idenitfy the ingredients..and eat moderately..take k sis & stay healthy..*hugz*

Lynn A said...

thanks dear for sharing the info with us... appreciate it.. you take care too..*hugs*