It's clear that California cooking has had deleterious effects on Governor Moonbeam, both physically and -- most of all -- mentally. He looks and acts very feebly.
Posted on 08/15/2015 1:21:38 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
If your dinner plate often includes fried chicken, gravy-smothered liver, buttered rolls and sweet tea — your heart may not find it so tasty. Eating a Southern-style diet is associated with an increased risk of heart disease, according to research in Circulation, an American Heart Association journal.
In a large-scale study that explored the relationship between dietary patterns and heart disease risk, researchers found that people who regularly ate traditional Southern fare — which they characterized as fried foods, fatty foods, eggs, processed meats, such as bacon and ham, organ meats like liver, and sugary drinks — were at a higher risk for suffering a heart attack or heart-related death during the next 5.8 years. Previous research also links the Southern diet with increased stroke risk.
The study is one of the first to include a regionally and socioeconomically diverse population. Researchers compared the dietary habits of more than 17,000 white and African-American adults in different regions of the United States. After adjusting for a combination of demographic and lifestyle factors, along with energy intake, they found:
People who most often ate foods conforming to the Southern dietary pattern had a 56 percent higher risk of heart disease compared to those who ate it less frequently. The highest consumers of the Southern diet tended to be male, African-American, those who had not graduated from high school or were residents of southern states (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana.) No other dietary pattern was associated with the risk of heart disease. "Regardless of your gender, race, or where you live, if you frequently eat a Southern-style diet you should be aware of your risk of heart disease and try to make some gradual changes to your diet," said James M. Shikany, Dr.P.H. lead researcher and a nutritional epidemiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Division of Preventive Medicine. "Try cutting down the number of times you eat fried foods or processed meats from every day to three days a week as a start, and try substituting baked or grilled chicken or vegetable-based foods."
Researchers used data from participants in the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study of white and African-American men and women aged 45 or older enrolled from 2003 to 2007. Participants were screened by telephone and then given an in-home physical exam and food questionnaire that asked how often and how much, on average, they consumed the foods during the previous year.
Researchers grouped the types of foods the participants regularly ate into five dietary patterns: the "convenience" pattern was comprised mostly of pasta dishes, Mexican food, Chinese food, mixed dishes and pizza; the "plant-based" pattern which was mostly vegetables, fruits, cereal, beans, yogurt, poultry and fish; the "sweets" pattern which consisted of added sugars, desserts, chocolate, candy and sweetened breakfast foods; the "alcohol/salads" was characterized by beer, wine, liquor, green leafy vegetables, tomatoes and salad dressings, and the "Southern" pattern, which was an eating pattern that the researchers observed to a greater extent in the Southeastern United States, included added fats, fried food, eggs and egg dishes, organ meats, processed meats and sugar-sweetened beverages.
Every six months, the participants were interviewed via telephone about their general health status and hospitalizations for nearly six years. For this study, the researchers only included participants who had no known heart disease at the beginning of the study.
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>> “Or was it the gravy and rolls instead of the chicken and butter?” <<
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Without question!
Grocery store chicken is bad news, not because of fats, but because of the drugs that it is saturated with.
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It's clear that California cooking has had deleterious effects on Governor Moonbeam, both physically and -- most of all -- mentally. He looks and acts very feebly.
The biggest problem with the southern diet is that they got talked into using Crisco (and similar partially hydrogenated oils) for all their frying needs and using margarine (yellow-colored partially hydrogenated oils) instead of the animal fats they had traditionally used for a couple of hundred years prior to that.
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>> “God was surely in favor of grains.” <<
Barley to make bread is the only grain supported in the Bible.
I must be the only Southerner who doesn’t like sweet tea.
But pinto beans, blackeyed peas, cornbread, country ham...yes, ma’am.
Actually I like to watch my carbs, so the cornbread is an occasional thing, dang it.
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LOL!
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Crisco is non-hydrogenated now.
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Whole grains are generally a no-no.
The reason is that they are loaded with enzyme inhibitors that prevent your food, particularly the very necessary saturated fats, from being digested and metabolized.
That makes two of us. The only additive for me is lemon in my ice tea.
What do you think a californian eats?
Crisco is 100% non-food.
Butter, coconut oil, or lard are safe to use, but not much else.
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Moonbeam eats tofu and toe jam.
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Yes, all of those are much better to use.
I don’t mind using Crisco once in a while, though. We’re going to die anyway.
The WBTS threads (or more recently the Trump threads) here on FR are mild compared to the paleo/vegan all-out war waged by the advocates of both, many of whom are MDs and can back their views with mounds of numbers.
Margarine is a petroleum product.
Yep, a little lemon is how I like it if I’m going to drink it.
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>> “The only additive for me is lemon in my ice tea.” <<
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Ditto!
“may raise your risk of heart attack”
Yeah, but it may not,too!
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