Butter vs. margarine

Comparison:

• 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 instead of butter can increase by 53 % the risk of coronary heart disease in women, according to a recent medical study at the University of Harvard.
• Eating butter increases the absorption of many nutrients found in other foods.
• Butter has many nutritional benefits while 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 less than 100 years.

More about margarine:

• It is very high in transgenic fatty acids. (Yes, those which scientists discovered recently that are terrible and some governments began banning).
• Triples risk of coronary heart disease.
• Increases total cholesterol and LDL (bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL (good cholesterol).
• Increases fivefold cancer risk.
• Lowers quality of breast milk.
• Decreases immune response of the organism.
• Decreases insulin reaction.

And here's the most disturbing factor: Margarine is just ONE MOLECULE far for being PLASTIC!

This fact alone is sufficient to avoid using margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, which changes the molecular structure of substances).

(www.veinformativo.org)

Natural sweeteners

"Sugar has become a constant companion in most of our lives. Whether added to our tea or coffee, or found in our favorite packaged foods we find in the supermarket aisles, sugar is hard to remove from our diet all together. With obesity levels shooting up, and greater understanding of just how sugar can wreak havoc on our health, the hunt is on for alternatives. 

But there’s a problem. Many sugar substitutes are synthetics that are no better for us than real sugar. What’s more, some of these synthetics – aspartame and acesulfame-K to name just two – have been linked to cancer."

By: Mark Briggs and Elis Goodman

(Read more)

Vitamin supplements "Are a waste of money"

By: Roberto Mendez

This is what experts are saying today about supplements, after the publication of up to 3 articles on this subject in the Annals of Internal Medicine magazine :

"Enough is enough: Stop spending money on supplements of vitamins and minerals"

These authors have concluded that these supplements do not work for literally anything, not to prevent chronic diseases or to avoid death prematurely, they can even be harmful if you already have an adequate nutrition. Therefore that of  "at least you know it will not hurt you" you can forget it now. For these experts use is not justified, and, not only that, it is advisable to avoid them.

"This message is especially true in the general population, they consume these supplements without clear evidence of micronutrient deficiency, and come to represent the majority of users and consumers of such supplements in the United States and other countries "

One of the co-authors of these studies, Dr. Edgar Miller, professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Ecole Public Health Johns Hopkins Bloomberg, in Baltimore, further states that the most convenient (and of common sense, in my opinion) is that people "spend money on healthy foods such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans, low fat dairy products " and do exercise, of course.

To give you an idea, in the U.S. alone, the "waste" in these substances becomes about 28 billion dollars annually. A bit silly when studies say they are worthless and may even harm us.

(Read the whole article *spanish)

Source: www.medciencia.com

The American Parasite

If you want to know more about the effects that sugar produces on us and the real cause of many health problems, you should watch this video and really pay attention to it.

This a video created by Whole Body Research (www.theamericanparasite.com)