Real actual butter. Accept no substitutes.
This is my smug butter post. Feeling proud of myself for always being highly suspicious of margarine. That stuff people, in the olden days, would squeeze food coloring into themselves (before colored margarine was legal), and which is supposed to stand in for butter.
Recently I got an email (apparently this has been in circulation since June 2003), which I'm going to pass along, just because it confirms everything I believe about the subject anyway. My favorite kind of information. Self confirming, and self affirming. Besides which, it is very timely, mentioning the word "turkeys", several times. Actually, it was a lot more fun before I had to eliminate the turkeys and a few other unproven statements, thanks to truthorfiction.com However, there's enough material left here to totally keep me away from the can't believe it stuff. I will be basting my turkey with butter, thank you.
Pass The Butter .. Please.
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 for 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.
Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few and 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. ( My note: All food labels must now disclose how much Trans fat a product contains and it has been eliminated from some margarine products).
Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)
Lowers quality of breast milk.
Decreases immune response.
Decreases insulin response.
These facts alone were 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 little experiment yourself:
Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it open in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will notice a few 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 (a scientific term), microorganisms will not a find a home to grow.
I am recommending my grandchildren do the experiment for a science project. Scopes has also reported on this internet forward.
