Pass The Butter, Please

I took this article out of a newspaper I receive from Share of the Food. This organization distributes affordable food to 60 communities in Illinois and Indiana once a month. They are able to by in large quantities. This month we received Asian grill turkey strips, chicken drums, smoked sausage with cheese, crane asada beef steak, red potatoes, apples, oranges, carrots, grapefruit, lettuce, cauliflower and grape tomatoes. You may have seen this before, but I had not and thought the article was very interesting.

"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. I 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. Ho do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavorings.

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. 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 that margarine than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of otehr food. 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 cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL (this good cholesterol). Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold. Lowers quality of breast milk. Decreases immune response. Decreases insulin response.... Margarine us 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.