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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.
JIM FIXX
And besides, stepping in front of an oncoming bus is bad for your health, too. As is being at the wrong intersection when some punk who just stole a car blows through a stop sign. And no amount of healthy eating is going to help you, then.
1) You are not using enough oil in the pan. This causes the temperature of the oil to drop below the optimal frying temperature (350-375). Use a heavy, tall sided pot, lots of oil, and a thermometer.
2) You are probably trying to cook too much chicken at once. This is related to the first problem.
3) You are cooking the chicken too long. (related to problems 1 & 2 above) Take the chicken out BEFORE it stops bubbling. The hot oil is turning the moisture in the chicken into steam cooking the chicken and causing the bubbles. As long as there are bubbles, the steam pressure is keeping the oil out of the food.
Drain well on a rack and pat dry with a paper towel. Do NOT let the chicken rest on paper towels.
"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."
'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Over in the book of Mark, Jesus declared all foods clean. I’ve come to trust him over the years. So it seem you can consume whatever as long as it isn’t in a gluttonous manner and it doesn’t cause someone else to stumble. It’s probably a good idea to avoid the ‘all you can eat’ buffet whether its in the north or south.
That’s because we know how to live down here.
Not that I don’t sometimes make the more adventuresome choices. But at 65, with a slightly swelling aorta, my doc advises erring toward caution. ‘Feel great though. A lot of walking and swimming.
Well maybe, but it does lower your risk of having a tasteless boring meal.
Bon Appetit!
I think that’s it exactly. Hard physical labor (not just workouts at the gym) will get your body to use just about any food as effectively as possible.
Jim Fixx is a good punchline for jokes. But the facts of the case actually say exercise is good. Before he started jogging he was a 3 pack a day guy, and there was a family history of heart problems. He quit smoking, he dropped a bunch of weight, and even though he died young he was the longest lived male in his family for 3 generations.
Yeah, and eating Northern food can get you mugged!
I’ll take my fresh seafood, and fresh veggies from the south any day. Although I would miss that Maine Lobster.
“Bojangles Chicken isn’t just a food, It’s a way of life!”
Take that, food Nazis! :)
Boy, I sure was... Pork Loin roast, baby backs, and pulled pork sandwiches are still very hard to pass up... And pizza is tough without italian sausage... But I can make my own pizza (and other sausage based) using turkey or beef based comparable... Another thing is wild game - I used to eat a lot of whatever the woods would give me... Makes it pretty tough to live out there if restricted to game birds, deer, and fish...
[...] but like my fried flounder filet so I guess I could function under a loose version of kosher.
It was a good thing for me - It makes you really think about what you are putting in... You can't go wrong eating what YHWH says is good for you to eat... And it brings you back to preparing what you eat for yourself - That's really the only way you can know for sure what you are getting... No more hot pockets, no more fast foods... Or at least, a whole lot less.
I find the anticipation during the cooking time adds so much to the flavor - The first bite, it turns out, is with the nose : ) It makes eating so much more enjoyable. I know that sounds goofy, but it is true for me.
I need to know the proper way to eat grits.
Isn’t it more a matter of what with, or with what to put on them?
Up in Washington St we don’t really know what to do with them.
Like for instance,if you serve biscuits with bacon gravy would you eat grits with it?
As for Jim Fixx, genetics was stacked against him. Even though he died at a young age, he still outlived his siblings by a considerable margin.
Thank you for the info, but you misunderstand me - It wasn't that the chicken was too greasy, but rather something in the grease made me ill, regardless of how greasy... Even baked chicken would make me yak. Didn't have chicken at all unless it was soaked in wine over night to remove the grease...
But then I had dinner at a friend's house, and ate my fill of wonderful fried chicken... The primary difference being that his chickens are range fed, without much for supplements. Since then, I have been buying my chickens from him (He's a Hutterite) and I eat a lot of it... Store-bought chicken still makes me sick.... so go figger.
Correction: Soul Food diet may raise your risk of heart attack
BFL
Make them with milk instead of water and cook them for a good, long time. Very smooth and creamy. You can’t go wrong with basic butter, salt and pepper. Gravy on grits is fine, cheese on grits is fine. Crumbling bacon into grits is fine. Even shrimp, shrimp and grits is a traditional southern low country dish. Some want to treat them like oatmeal, putting sugar on them. That, I’ve never understood. It helps some people, from the northeast primarily, to view grits as a coarse ground variety of polenta. That opens up a lot of possibilities.
I would differ with your interpretation of that passage... If Yeshua changed Torah (added to or taken away) then he would necessarily be a false prophet (having committed sin too). Understanding the dichotomy that presents will change the interpretation of the entire New Testament, to include Paul.
As it is, such a declaration does not change the unhealthy nature of predator, scavenger, or filter-feeder meat - And it costs me little to stick to what YHWH says is good for me to eat.
But I don't want to steal the thread... would be happy to debate it elsewhere (Freepmail or RF)...
Ask me if I care.
"If your dinner plate often includes fried chicken, gravy-smothered liver, buttered rolls and sweet tea — your heart may not find it so tasty...""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."
Or was it the gravy and rolls instead of the chicken and butter?
This has been one of the problems with these kinds of studies. They don't really single out anything and are used to confirm the biases of the authors.
Except that the southern diet also includes a lot of bread and sugar.
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