Butter or Margarine? Let Me Tell You the Difference..

[Monarch]

I got this paper in a class of mine. Note that I am not claiming any authorship or copyright of this document, but simply retyping it. The paper did not contain any recognition towards an author, so I will retype it almost word-for-word, just as I received it.

Butter vs. Margarine

Do you know the difference between margarine and butter?

Both have the same amount of calories. Butter is slightly higher in saturated fat at 8 grams compared to margarine's 5 grams of saturated fat.

Eating margarine, however, can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.

Butter:

• 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 flavor of other foods.
• Butter has been around for centuries where as margarine has been around for less than one hundred years.

Margarine:

• Margarine is very high in trans fatty acids and triples hte risk of coronary heart disease.
• Margarine increases total cholesterol, more-specifically LDL [AKA bad cholesterol].
• Margarine lowers HDL cholesterol [AKA the good cholesterol] and increases the risk of cancers by up to five times.
• Margarine also lowers the quality of breast milk and decreases immune response.
• Along with that, margarine decreases insulin response.

Here is the most interesting, yet most disturbing fact about margarine:

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC.

Try this out yourself to prove this fact: 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, such as no flies [not even pesky fruit flies which should tell you something], it doesn't rot or smell differently [because of no nutritional value; nothing will grow on it], and from a microscopic perspective, no micro-organisms will grow on it.

Why? Because it is almost plastic.

Would you melt your Tupperware container and spread it on your toast?

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[kendrah1]

That's disturbing.

[Zharx]

dude i love plastic foods. brings me back to them toddler days

[Heiken]

So much for all the people that have told me that Margarine is better for your health than butter.

[Marleyfan]

Im with heiken, for a good part of my life people have always told me that margarine was better then butter for your health. My wife constantly makes me eat that nasty crap instead of butter because its "good" for my health. I can't wait till she wakes up so I can tell her we're never eating margarine again. This is a little off topic, but it just goes to show you what people give us to eat these days. My sister and her husband came over for Christmas dinner this year, and brought some pies with them. Well my wife had cooked a pecan pie so we didn't eat the one my sister brought over. I left it out for a couple days being lazy and after about 5 days I noticed it wasn't spoiling or going bad at all. I decided to conduct an experiment and put it on my work bench in my garage. It has now been there for a little over 3 weeks, and there is 0 sign of mold, nor any other regular signs that the pie is going bad. Now i'm not sure if thats because it has so many preservatives or what exactly. All I know is if it wont even get moldy after 3+ weeks I am certainly not eating it. Thanks for posting this paper, I thought it was pretty interesting.

[Monarch]

I always knew butter was the right choice: it always tasted better to me.