Margarine is bad, really bad for you

[pauld3]

Margarine is 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. 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 weenie
microorganisms will not a find a home to grow.
Why? Because it is nearly plastic. Would you melt
your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?

"Food for thought, you guys!"

Lynn

[sdtripper2]

Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?

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You made me smile Lynn ~

[Mary K]

Lynn, have you done that test with margarine?? Did you get pictures? If not you should, and take pictures.


Mk

[halfdome, Danny]

We have it in the refer but rarely use the stuff. I saw somewhere that butter was better for you in moderation than margarine and we use both very little. When I'm the one shopping I read labels (Mom worked in a health food store) to see what the ingredients are in a product and shop accordingly to what I do or don't want in my body. There are several brands that are non-hydrogenated like this one. Like anything you need to know what your buying and the gument has required labels for quite awhile now. Danny

[Ira]

What about that Smart Balance stuff?

A few years, I listened to my doctor and followed his advice for a whole week to control my cholesterol, so I used that instead of butter.

Like I said, I only did it for a week, and everything tasted SO much better after I stopped that nonsense.

[raprap]

It is really a question of saturated fats vs. unsaturated fats. Margarine is a product of vegetable oils where butter comes from animal oils. Animal oils and fats tend to contain less unsaturated carbon carbon bonds than vegetable oils--as a result they tend to have higher melting points than vegetable oils of a similar molecular weight.

As for health--because of a higher concentration of unsaturated fats vegetable oils tend to be less likely to be converted to cholesterol, consequently one would expect that margarines are healthier--but IMO they don't taste as good. For instance fried potatoes are always tastier when fried in lard.

BTW a good substitute for margarine (and lard and butter in general) is vegetable oils (canola and olive oils are my favorites) which spread on toast and jelly and pop corn just fine.

As for the plastic threat--plastic is just another polymerized carbon, just like most biological compounds-just (in general) simpler. As for other examples the difference between cellulose (cotton and wood) and polycarbohydrates is the orientation of a single bond in the glucose chains. Termites are able to convert cellulose to carbohydrates because of an enzyme produced by a symbiotic bug that lives in their gut.

Rap

[Nitetimes]

Butter!!!!!! Yup, I'm guilty of it, large quantities sometimes, love the stuff. Yummm!

Never did like margarine. It just ain't natural when the stuff don't melt when you spread it on warm rolls or even when it sits in the sun for that matter.
Don't taste right either.

[ARKPAT]

I ran the bugs off my house plants with DIET COLA. They left home with saying good by. They returned after a few weeks of plain water thought. So to combat that every few weeks the diet cola was used to keep the bugs away. You are right at that point I quit using diet anything. If nature doesn't like it their might be a reason?



Pat

[Sam I am]

I saw that margarine story before, and, if I remember, it was put out by the American Dairy Assoc. or some such organization to promote butter. I think it was proven to be a load of BS, which, I guess is another dairy product since it comes from cattle!

[Geron]

I saw that margarine story before, and, if I remember, it was put out by the American Dairy Assoc. or some such organization to promote butter. I think it was proven to be a load of BS, which, I guess is another dairy product since it comes from cattle!

[Mary K]

It is really a question of saturated fats vs. unsaturated fats. Margarine is a product of vegetable oils where butter comes from animal oils. Animal oils and fats tend to contain less unsaturated carbon carbon bonds than vegetable oils--as a result they tend to have higher melting points than vegetable oils of a similar molecular weight.

As for health--because of a higher concentration of unsaturated fats vegetable oils tend to be less likely to be converted to cholesterol, consequently one would expect that margarines are healthier--but IMO they don't taste as good. For instance fried potatoes are always tastier when fried in lard.

BTW a good substitute for margarine (and lard and butter in general) is vegetable oils (canola and olive oils are my favorites) which spread on toast and jelly and pop corn just fine.

As for the plastic threat--plastic is just another polymerized carbon, just like most biological compounds-just (in general) simpler. As for other examples the difference between cellulose (cotton and wood) and polycarbohydrates is the orientation of a single bond in the glucose chains. Termites are able to convert cellulose to carbohydrates because of an enzyme produced by a symbiotic bug that lives in their gut.

Rap

Rap, ...um...er.... dem is mighty big words... I must say your Avatar does NOT do you justice.

Mk

[Ken A Hood]

And water is just an "O" molecule off from drinking Hydrogen......

[sdtripper2]

Ok... now that we have had our fun
with this lets let snopes.com tell the
rest of the story.
Shall we ......

I searched snopes on these infamous words:
"Margarine is but one molecule from being PLASTIC"

Results follow:

Boiled down story quote from article in Snopes:

"Although a great deal of the information given in the e-mail is valid,
one bit of intelligence is nothing more than hyperbole tossed in by the
author in an effort to make his point more strongly. The claim that some
comestible is but a "single molecule away" from being a decidedly inedible
(or even toxic) substance has been applied to a variety of processed
foods."

Full Story @ Snopes:
http://tinyurl.com/5fu52

I guess Tupperware is safe
and some emails sent around
are maybe a little over da top ~