Butter or Margarine?

Question

The difference between butter and margarine?

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 flavours of other foods. Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years.

Now for Margarine, very high in trans fatty acids triple risk of Coronary Heart Disease, Increases total and LDL ( This is the bad Cholesterol), Lowers HDL cholesterol and this is the good one, Increases the risk of cancers by up to five fold, lowers quality of breast milk, decreases immune response, and decreases insulin response.

And here is the most disturbing fact......

Margarine is but one molecule 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 food.)

You can try this for 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, smell differently... Because it has no nutritional value, nothing will grow on it, 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?

Answer 1

thanks for the info

Answer 2

If you find this interest in have you watched Super size Me. Its a movie about a man how only eats McDonald's food for a whole month. Anyway, they did a test on there french fries at the end of the movie and the french fries don't rot or mold. I have found this out myself. I had some old french fries in the car from McDonald's one time and they didn't decompose and they had been in the car for a very long time.

You may also enjoy the book: Cures They Don't Want You To Know About.

Answer 3

Very simply ,it was margarine not really butter that Marlon Brando used in "last tango in Paris" it is just slipperier when used for sex. You may eat a little during foreplay but it should not cause any medical problems.

Answer 4

I've never reallyhad margarine, at least I think I haven't.So I would have to go with butter.

Answer 5

When in doubt stick with the natural option. Butter is better.

Answer 6

I like butter, and butter is better for you than margarine.

Answer 7

As a professionally trained chef butter has it hands down!

Answer 8

Butter comes from nature,
and is therefore better for you.

Answer 9

I love Margarine...

Answer 10

i prefer butter it tastes good on toast.

Answer 11

Who would???/ This would be why we use butter in our home!