Subject: butter vs margirine

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.

It 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. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavorings....

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 to5 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.

Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods. 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. Triples risk of coronary heart disease ...

Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)

Increases the risk of cancers up to five times. Lowers quality of breast milk. Decreases immune response. Decreases insulin response. And here's the most disturbing fact... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC... and shares 27 ingredients with PAINT. These facts alone should have you avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).

Open a tub of margarine and leave it open in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will notice 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 value, nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny micro-organisms 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?

Pass the BUTTER PLEASE

Major Problems being solved in Washington

by Ted Robbins

For the last four years, Capitol restaurants used eco-friendly plates, cups and utensils — all part of former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's "Green the Capitol" campaign.

Republicans, who are now in charge of the House, have gone after the tableware — and maybe more.

You can get a good lunch for less than $10 in the cafeteria at the Capitol's Rayburn House Office Building. And you can recycle the plastic water bottles — for now.

But Democratic congressional staffers Devon Kerns and Emily Cardon are upset about using plastic foam plates and cups. They say the touch and feel is so '90s.

"It's gross to eat out of. When ... you're actually scraping your spoon across it and it pulls up Styrofoam, god only knows what you're eating," Cardon says.

And there's the environmental issue, they say — the plastic foam is not being recycled.

Republican Rep. Dan Lungren of California, the chairman of the House Administration Committee, is the one who dropped the biodegradables. He says the new products are higher quality than the biodegradable stuff — some of which fell apart.

"I mean, I got more complaints from members of Congress and staff — particularly staff — about forks that would bend, knives that wouldn't cut," he says. "And I got complaints about the cups — that you'd have to put two or three of them together so that you could hold it with a hot beverage."

Along with that, Lungren says, the old stuff cost more than the plastic and foam. It's fiscal responsibility, a statement of who's in charge now.

Oregon Democrat Earl Blumenauer worries this is just the first step toward dismantling the whole Green the Capitol program.

"You wonder what's next," he says. "Lead paint? Asbestos? I mean, there's lots of things that are less expensive as long as you don't care about health and other considerations."

Under the Pelosi plan, the Capitol has been phasing out incandescent light bulbs in favor of more energy-efficient fluorescent bulbs. A Republican bill has been introduced to repeal that mandate.

"It's silly, it's unfortunate and it's not where America is going," Blumenauer says.

Could Washable Utensils Be Next?

Paper, plastic or foam, Jarrett Torres has to lift it. He's a busboy who empties trash in the Rayburn cafeteria. He used to take green bags filled with trash to the recycling room. Now, they're black bags.

"You have to take this black garbage to the Dumpster," he says.

But he says it doesn't really matter: It's all garbage to him.

Of course, this is Congress and there could be compromise. A pilot study is scheduled to start next week in the Rayburn cafeteria to study the feasibility of washable, reusable utensils.

I've come up with an idea .............

I do a lot of people watching, and I was doing that today at Walmart, which is a great place to people watch. I have started  walking up to people who just put items they don't want anyplace handy, and I ask them, "Did you mean to just leave that there?"

Generally they just look at me and walk away, leaving the item they decided they didn't want. What is it about Walmart that people think they can do that. I shop other stores and don't see that happening as much as at Walmart.

Maybe it is just so big they don't want to back-track. From the back of the store to the front door, today, I counted 33 out of place items. Some in freezers, some on shelves, just anyplace to get rid of it. I wonder what their kids think when they tell them to just put it down and leave it. At home Mom wants them to pick up their stuff and "put it back." But at Walmart it is OK, why is that?

I came up with another revelation today. I think I have found out why so many people are getting Cancer.

I was people watching today, and all of a sudden it came to me. What did people start doing 20 or 30 years ago ..... flip flops and tennis shoes. Plastic flip flops and shoes with a lot of plastic and glue and stuff. People live in them. And in the Winter, those who wear flip flops start wearing tennis shoes in the winter, or plastic boots. Even a lot of shoes people wear are plastic rather than leather. Plastic and glue.

Today, 18 out of 20 people were either wearing flip flops or tennis shoes. And, if you took a survey, 95 percent of people who get cancer wear one of the other, or plastic shoes.

That was almost too easy

It was so obvious when I realized it. And, most of them are made in China, or somewhere. Maybe a conspiracy, how many shoes or flip flops are made by Muslims? Muslims wear leather slippers.