Butter or Margarine?

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 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 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.
Triple 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 fold..
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..

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?

Share This With Your Friends......(If you want to butter them up')!

Chinese Proverb:
'When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.
Pass the BUTTER PLEASE..

Update from John Hopkins

Bottled water in your car
is

very dangerous!





On the Ellen show, Sheryl Crow said this is
what caused her breast cancer. It has been
identified as the m ost common cause of the high
levels of dioxin in breast cancer tissue.



Sheryl Crow's oncologist told her: women

should not drink bottled water that has been left in a car.

The heat reacts with the chemicals in the plastic
of the

bottle which releases dioxin into the water. Dioxin is

a toxin increasingly found in breast cancer tissue.

So please be careful and do not drink bottled water that has

been left in a car. Pass this on to all the wom en in your life.






This information is the kind we need
to know that just might save us! Use a stainless
steel canteen or a glass bottle

instead of plastic!



LET EVERYONE WHO HAS A WIFE / GIRLFRIEND /

DAUGHTER KNOW PLEASE!



This information is also being
circulated at Walter Reed

Army Medical Center



No plastic containers in microwave.



No water bottles in
freezer



No plastic wrap in
microwave.



A dioxin chemical causes cancer,
especially breast cancer.



Dioxins are highly poisonous to the
cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic

bottles with water in
them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently,Edward

Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital , was
on a TV program to explain this health hazard.



He talked about dioxins and
how bad they are for us.



He said that we should
not be heating our food in the microwave using

plastic containers ..... This especially
applies to foods that contain fat...



He said that the combination of fat,
high heat and plastic releases dioxin

into the food and ultimately into the
cells of the body...

Instead, he
recommends using glass,
such as Corning Ware, Pyrex

or ceramic containers

for heating food.... You get the same results, only without
the dioxin.

So such things as TV dinners, instant
ramen and soups, etc.,

should be rem oved from the container
and heated in something else..



Paper isn't bad but you don't know
what is in the paper...



It's just safer to
use tempered glass, Corning
Ware, etc.

He reminded us that a while ago
some of the fast food

restaurants moved away from the foam containers to

paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons...



Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as
Saran wrap,

is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in
the microwave.

As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to
actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip
into the food.





Cover food with a paper towel instead.

This is an article that
should be sent To anyone important inYour life!

Exercises you can do away from the gym

Here are some resistance training exercises that you can do using just your own body weight:

1. Pushups- standard, on knees, feet propped up on a chair, leaning on a wall, upper body propped up on a couch, etc. There are even more variations by changing body placement and hand-width. 
2. Crunches- feet on floor, lets bent in air, legs straight in air, bicycle crunch, full sit-ups, oblique crunches, plank.
3. Lunges- walking lunges, stationary lunges, side lunges, reverse or front lunges.
4. Squats- feet together, feet shoulder-width, feet wide, back on wall (holding wall sit), holding extra weight (dumbbells, water jugs, etc), one-legged squats (advanced!) 
5. Bridges- lie on your back, legs bent, feet on floor. Lift hips toward ceiling, squeezing glutes the whole time. Challenge yourself by keeping one leg up in the air. 
6. Cardio- climbing your stairs, running/walking/jogging outside, hiking, jumping rope (or just jumping period), kickboxing routines, fitness videos, biking, etc.

As you can see, there are SO many options you can choose from, even with the smallest amount of resources. All of the exercise demos in the Fitness Resource Center are exercises you can do at home.

Investing a little money in a good resistance band, Swiss ball, and/or pair of hand weights will allow you to do a wide variety of exercises from home.