Pass the butter

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I got this sent to me and got a chuckle out of it. It was an attempt from my wife to get me eating ore butter as she hates Margarine. No idea if its true but I have done a helluva a lot of damage to myself if it is........


Some interesting facts about margarine that someone sent to me:

"Pass the butter ~ ~ ~ ~ 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 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..

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?"

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interesting. I thought that margarine was created at the request of Napoleon to substitute for butter for his troops (way back when the French were trying to be ass-kickers).

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Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC..

Hell, milk has plastic. The protein casein, that forms that skin on milk when you heat it? Take a bunch of it and mold it. When it cools and dries, you are left with plastic.

And since butter is made from dairy, it makes sense that there is some casein in it, and therefore pladtic.

Of course, I could be wrong.


edited to add: Oh, yeah. And table salt is but one atom away from being either chlorine (one of the deadlier gases) or sodium (hope there's zero percent humidity)

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More info on the subject:

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/butter.asp

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Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC

Um, I'm a molecular biologist and I don't understand what this sentence means.

What is the significance of saying one substance is one molecule away from being plastic???

One molecule of something is always one molecule away from being one molecule of something else, right???

It's like saying a lobster is one animal away from being a horse.

Could someone explain to me WTF they're trying to say here??

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It's like saying a lobster is one animal away from being a horse.

Could someone explain to me WTF they're trying to say here??

Lobster tastes better than horse...lol.

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Lobster tastes better than horse...lol.

See, you should have miniture horse, its sort of like eating dog...or pizza from CiCi's.

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