Obesity among children is on the rise, and this is a big concern for our entire country. With healthcare costs already on the rise, having generations of children suffering from obesity gaurantees that healthcare costs will continue to go up. In addition, children who suffer from obesity are at a significantly greater risk for conditions such as Type II Diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, gout, heart disease and certain types of cancers. Our bodies simply cannot operate optimally when we carrying large amounts of extra weight and this is especially dangerous for children. Their bodies are growing, their brains and organ systems are still developing. If their bodies can’t perform optimally during years of critical development, their health will suffer for the rest of their lives. Dr. Joseph Mercola recently wrote an article discussing one of the reasons children are suffering from obesity so much these days. The link to this article can be found below.
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http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2010/02/17/childhood-obesity–its-not-the-amount-of-tv-its-the-number-of-junk-food-commercials.aspx
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!
