Butter vs. 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's and sold it to people to use in place of butter. They have since come out with some clever new flavorings....

DO YOU KNOW… the difference between margarine and butter?

*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% than 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...

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC... and shares 27 ingredients with PAINT.

These facts alone were 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).

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 nutritional value; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not a find a home to grow.

Why? Because it's nearly plastic. 

Would you melt your Tupperware and spread it on your toast?

Double Parking X2 (ZSW-2776)

While taking a break while working I saw this guy parked his car this way at a Target 

department store parking area and walked to a nearby restaurant with his date for night.

 

Getting Suspended and Loving It

This story will warm you better than a coffee in a cold winter day!

We enter a little coffeehouse with a friend of mine and give our order. While we're approaching our table two people come in and they go to the counter: 'Five coffees, please. Two of them for us and three suspended', they pay for their order, take the two and leave.

I ask my friend: "What are those 'suspended' coffees?"

My friend: "Wait for it and you will see."

Some more people enter. Two girls ask for one coffee each, pay and go. The next order was for seven coffees and it was made by three lawyers - three for them and four 'suspended'. While I still wonder what's the deal with those 'suspended' coffees I enjoy the sunny weather and the beautiful view towards the square in front of the café. 

Suddenly a man dressed in shabby clothes who looks like a beggar comes in through the door and kindly asks 'Do you have a suspended coffee?’

It's simple - people pay in advance for a coffee meant for someone who cannot afford a warm beverage. The tradition with the suspended coffees started in Naples, but it has spread all over the world and in some places you can order not only a suspended coffee, but also a sandwich or a whole meal.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to have such cafés or even grocery stores in every town where the less fortunate will find hope and support? If you own a business why don't you offer it to your clients... I am sure many of them will like it.

Crying For All the Wrong Reasons

So UNC is out of the 2013 NCAA tournament 

and is under Federal Investigation; again.

I want my mommy

• Rapes and sexual assaults not being reported to local law enforcement
• UNC Honor Court attacking rape victims
• Improperly accepting gifts from sports agents
• Lying to federal investigators about receiving travel accommodations and jewelry
• Teachers giving passing grades to nonexistent classes
• Unauthorized grade changes
• Fraudulent classes
• Academic fraud
• Tutor writing term papers for players
• Players and tutor taking money from sports agent not authorized to do business in the state
• Assistant coach working as a middle man between sports agents and players
• For showing the world that sports comes before academics and student safety.

Just remember to look on the bright side of life

As in the past few years, there's always hope for next year

Double Parking

If you're going to double park, enjoy the publicity.
NC plate# XVZ-2042 at Target in Knightdale, NC

Find the Hidden Soda

Find the 12 pack Diet Mountain Dew.

Life Before "Being Green"

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."

The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

She was right – the older generation didn't have the green thing in its day.

Back then, they returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were truly recycled.

But they didn't have the green thing back in those days.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that were reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for use by the school) was not defaced by scribbling’s. Then they were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.

But too bad they didn't do the green thing back then.

They walked up stairs, because they didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. They walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time they had to go two blocks.

But she was right. The older generations didn't have the green thing in those days.

Back then, they washed the baby's diapers because they didn't have the throwaway kind. They dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry their clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.

But that young lady is right; the older generation didn't have the green thing back in those days.

Back then, they had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, they blended and stirred by hand because they didn't have electric machines to do everything for them.

When they packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, they used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, they didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. They used a push mower that ran on human power. They exercised by working so they didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she's right; the older generation didn't have the green thing back then.

They drank from a fountain when they were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time they had a drink of water. They refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and they replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

But the older generation didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. They had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And they didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.

But isn't it sad, the current generation laments how wasteful old folks were just because they didn't have the green thing back then?