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Both butter and margarine have the same amount of calories. Butter, however, is slighly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams; compared to 5 grams for magarine. Eating magarine 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 magarine 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 and LDL (bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL (good cholesterol). Increases the risk of cancers up to 5 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.

Try this yourself: purchase a tub of margarine and leaave 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 micro-organisms will not make a home to grow.

Why?

Because it is nearly plastic. Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?

Many people who walk the earth practice the fine art of making others feel responsible and even indebted to them, without cause. "Psychic Vampires" are individuals who drain others of their vital energy. This type of person can be found in all avenues of society. They fill no useful purpose in our lives, and are neither love objects nor true friends. Yet we feel responsible to the psychic vampire without knowing why.

If you think you may be the victim of such a person, there are a few simple rules which will help you form a decision. Is there a person you often call or visit, even though you really don't want to, because you know you will feel guilty if you don't? Or, do you find yourself constantly doing favors for one who doesn't come forward and ask, but hints? Often the psychic vampire will use reverse psychology, saying: "Oh, I couldn't ask you to do that"---and you, in turn, insist upon doing it. The psychic vampire never demands anything of you. That would be known in subtle ways which will prevent them from being considered pests. They "wouldn't think of imposing" and are always content to willingly accept their lot, without the slightest complaint---outwardly!

Their sins are not of commission, but of ommission. It's what they don't say, not what they do say, that makes you feel you must account to them.

A large percentage of these people have special "attibutes" which make their dependence upon you more feasible and  much more effective. Many psychic vampires are invalids (or pretend to be) or are "mentally or emotionally disturbed." Others will feign ignorance or incompetence so you will, out of pity, do things for them.

The traditional way to banish a demon or elemental is to recognize it for what it is, and exorcise it. Recognition of these modern-day demons and their methods is the only antidote for their devastating hold over you.

Most people accept these passively vicious individuals at face value only because their insidious maneuvers have never been pointed out to them. They merely accept these "poor souls" as being less fortunate than themselves, and feel they must help them however they can. It is this misdirected sense of responsibility which nourishes well the 'altruisms" upon which these parasites feast!

A psychic vampire will always select a person who is relatively content and satisfied with his life--a person who is happily married, pleased with his job, and generally well-adjusted to the world around him--to feed upon. The very fact that the psychic vampire chooses to victimize a happy person shows that he is lacking all the things his victim has; he will do everything he can to stir up trouble and disharmony between his victim and those people he holds dear.

Therefore, be wary of anyone who seems to have no real friends and no apparent interest in life (except you). He will usually tell you he is very selective in his choice of friends, or doesn't make friends easily because of the high standards he sets for his companions.

The only way to determine if you are being vampirized is to weigh what you give the person compared to what they give you in return.

You are being vampirized if you are incessantly called upon or expected to do favors for someone who, when you need a favor, always happens to have other "pressing obligations".

Many psychic vampires will give you material things for the express purpose of making you feel you owe them something in return, thereby binding you to them. The difference between your giving, and theirs, is that your return payment must come in a non-material form. They want you to feel obligated to them, and would be very disappointed and even resentful if you attempted to repay them with material objects. In essence, you have "sold your soul" to them, and they'll constantly remind you of your duty to them, by not reminding you.

The only way to deal with a psychic vampire is to "play dumb" and act as though they are genuinely altruistic and really  expect nothing in return. Teach them a lesson by graciously taking what they give you, thanking them loudly enough for all to hear, and walking away! In this way you come out the victor. What can they say? And when you are inevitably expected to repay their "generousity", (this is the hard part) you say "NO"--but again, graciously! When they feel you falling from their clutches two things will happen. First, they will act "crushed", hoping your old feeling of duty and sympathy will return, and when (and if) it doesn't, they will show their true colors and will become angry and vindictive.

Once you have moved them to this point, YOU can play the role of the injured party. After all, you've done nothign wrong, you just happened to have had "pressing obligations" when they needed you, and since nothing was expected in return for their gifts, there should not be no hard feelings.

There are times, however, when the psychic vampire will not release his hold so easily, and will do everything possible to torment you. They have plenty of time for this because, when once rejected, they will neglect all else to devote their every waking moment to planning the revenge to which they feel they are entitled. For this reason, it is best to avoid a relationship with this kind of person in the first place. Their "adulation" and dependence upon you may, at first, be flattering, and their material gifts very attractive, but you will eventually find yourself paying for them many times over.

Don't waste your time with people who will ultimately destroy you, but concentrate instead on those who will appreciate your responsibility to them, and, likewise, feel responsible to you.

Taken from the pages of "The Satanic Bible" by Anton Szandor LaVey