Margarine or Butter??
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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 flavours 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)
Lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol) ...
Increases the risk of cancers by up to five fold...
Lowers quality of Breast milk...
Decreases immune response...
Decreases insulin response.
And here are the most disturbing facts....
HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!
Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC.......
And margarine is initally BLACK, but it is DYED YELLOW to look like butter.
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 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 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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gee.. i hv been using margarine for soo lg!
wat do u use? margarine or butter?? -
oh dear, i hv been eating margarine all this while
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interesting article. I always prefer butter over margarine
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Butter lah of course! That's where the taste lies. Only idiots use margarine for cooking.
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so r u going to chg to butter?Originally posted by TehJarVu:oh dear, i hv been eating margarine all this while -
From someone who eats coles rice, its not really any surprise.Originally posted by TehJarVu:oh dear, i hv been eating margarine all this while -
for bread niahOriginally posted by ditzy:Butter lah of course! That's where the taste lies. Only idiots use margarine for cooking. 
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i dun like leh i find butter too butteryOriginally posted by SnowFlag:interesting article. I always prefer butter over margarine -
what about those olive oil ones? margarine also?
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yes, after i finish my marigold, i heard some similar report alsoOriginally posted by BabyLover:so r u going to chg to butter? -
Let's do it the simple way:
Butter: Original
Margarine: Substitute (CMI) -
that rice is really nice okOriginally posted by ditzy:From someone who eats coles rice, its not really any surprise. -
i hv no idea.. anyone know??Originally posted by kalangkabo:what about those olive oil ones? margarine also? -
oh den for my darlings sake.. i muz i muz... chgOriginally posted by TehJarVu:yes, after i finish my marigold, i heard some similar report also -
Originally posted by ditzy:Let's do it the simple way:
Butter: Original
Margarine: Substitute (CMI)
dey shld make the butter comes in a container like margarine...
like tt nicer n ezier -
Hawthorne Effect. Don't be alarmed folks.Originally posted by TehJarVu:that rice is really nice ok -
olive oil is made from olive, shd be ok. actually olive oil is supposed to be healthy.Originally posted by kalangkabo:what about those olive oil ones? margarine also? -
eh.. wats tat?Originally posted by ditzy:Hawthorne Effect. Don't be alarmed folks. -
yah tink so too...Originally posted by TehJarVu:olive oil is made from olive, shd be ok. actually olive oil is supposed to be healthy. -
let's just stick to pork lard
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vegetable oil supposed to be healthy also mah...Originally posted by TehJarVu:olive oil is made from olive, shd be ok. actually olive oil is supposed to be healthy.
aren't margarine made from vegetable oil? -
Peanut come from plants, vegetables also come from plants, so peanuts can be counted as a vegetable somewhat, but peanut oil is supposedly not that healthy.
We eat vegetables for a healthy and balanced diet, we eat meat such as beef also. Beef come from cows, cows eat grass, grass are plants, anything that comes from plants are most likely vegetables. So we eat beef, why still need to eat vegetables? -
wat i've heard about margarine/butter is not as detailed as wat u said.
all i know is butter is natural and margarine is not.
And most impt is that butter can be desolved in our body and then be absorbed. But margarine cannot.
similar to wat u know about margarine being close to plastic. which i dun think our body can dissolve and absorb. -
u ask me i ask who?Originally posted by kalangkabo:vegetable oil supposed to be healthy also mah...
aren't margarine made from vegetable oil?
think margarine is too processed loh