Do you know the difference between butter and margarine?
Both have the same amount of calories.
Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams; compared to 5 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.
Margarine is very high in trans fatty acids.
Triples the 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.
Margarine is but one molecule away from being plastic and and shares 27 ingredients with paint.
Pass the REAL BUTTER PLEASE!
Often when people are searching for synthetic vitamins at a health food store, they look for the vitamin with the highest amount of nutrient in it (for example, %1000 percent or more of the daily recomended dose) and think this means the vitamin is a good quality. Dr. Royal Lee (the founder of Standard Process) found that the most important thing to consider when buying a vitamin is the source of the nutrient. This whole food philosophy is still held by Standard Process and is the reason for the high quality products they sell.
“Our founder, Dr. Royal Lee challenged the common scientific beliefs by choosing a holistic approach of providing nutrients through whole foods. His goal was to provide nutrients as they are found in nature – in a whole food state where he believed their natural potency and efficacy would be realized. Dr. Lee believed that when nutrients remain intact and are not split from their natural associated synergists – known and unknown – bioactivity is markedly enhanced over isolated nutrients. Following this philosophy, even a small amount of a whole food concentrate will offer enhanced nutritional support, compared to an isolated or fractionated vitamin. Therefore, one should examine the source of nutrients rather than looking at the quantities of individual nutrients on product labels.” – Standard Process
For more information on whole food supplements, please call our office or visit Standard Process online at www.standardprocess.com
