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Cardiologist: 9 American foods you 'couldn't pay me to eat'—after 20 years of treating heart attacks
CNBC ^ | Oct 10, 2025 | Dr. Sanjay Bhojraj, Contributor

Posted on 10/11/2025 1:29:24 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

After two decades treating heart disease, clogged arteries, and metabolic dysfunction, I began to notice a pattern. Many of my patients thought they were doing everything right — like exercising regularly and managing stress — yet they still ended up in my office with serious cardiovascular issues.

The common thread? Everyday food choices.

Some of the most harmful foods in the American diet don't come with warning labels. Instead, they're marketed as "heart smart," "plant-based," or "low-fat." But behind the buzzwords are ingredients that fuel inflammation, spike blood sugar, and quietly damage your arteries over time.

As a cardiologist, there are nine American foods you couldn't pay me to eat — not because I'm extreme, but because I've seen firsthand what they do to the human heart.

1. Sugary breakfast cereals

2. Processed deli meats

3. Soda and energy drinks

4. Deep-fried fast foods (and carnival snacks)

5. White bread and refined carbs

6. Margarine and fake butter spreads

7. Highly processed plant-based 'meats'

8. Canned soups with high sodium

9. Flavored coffee creamers

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: cadiacfoods; food; healthyfoods; heartattack; sanjaybhojraj

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To: PGR88
What counts as “processed” deli meats? My German and Czech ancestors seemed to thrive in things like sausage, ham and salam

Because they worked off the fat, not being overweight, which is usually concomitant with the conditions the doctor cites. While a steady diet of most of these is not good, I think that a person who normally will "eat in due season for strength [when needed for energy, physiological hunger: vs. psychological or hedonic hunger], and not for drunkenness [intoxication]" (Ecclesiastes 10:17) and only as much as needed for energy, and includes healthy foods but also some of the forbidden ones, would normally be healthier and live longer , by the grace of God - other factors being equal - than one who only eats "healthy" but to excess.

21 posted on 10/11/2025 2:44:44 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: Red6
They “create the science” to justify what is a forgone conclusion based on some philosophy they embrace.

Monty Python on the "scientific" method

22 posted on 10/11/2025 2:52:22 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

There were no big surprises on that list. Many of those foods were warned about, when eaten in excess. Warned about since the days of Jack La Lane and Adele Davis.


23 posted on 10/11/2025 3:20:59 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

In the cages to the right, we had 100 rats fed diet A, in the cages to the left, we had 100 rats fed diet F....

I thought evidence-based medicine was a hot item.


24 posted on 10/11/2025 3:26:09 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I have never touched or consumed that disgusting artificial drek called coffee creamer. On that 10 item list I eat white bread and occasional deli meats


25 posted on 10/11/2025 3:31:13 AM PDT by dennisw (There is no limit to human stupidity )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Philadelphia Cream Cheese adds highly anticipated new item for the first time in its 150-year history (cheesecake)

https://nypost.com/2025/10/10/lifestyle/philadelphia-cream-cheese-sells-cheesecake-for-the-first-time-in-history/


26 posted on 10/11/2025 3:32:19 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: irishjuggler

I imagine that old style sausage and meats would be fine, but the modern processing using chemicals that were not really around 120 years ago.

The other thing is that our European ancestors also worked hard every day. They burned a lot of calories on the farm. You shouldn’t eat all that stuff when working at a computer all day.


27 posted on 10/11/2025 3:34:36 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: daniel1212

Our old time farmers ate loads of lard and fats and meat. But they worked it all off and this was easier to do in our cold northern states

I have been to Amish dinners and there are tons of vegetable dishes and fruit


28 posted on 10/11/2025 3:35:28 AM PDT by dennisw (There is no limit to human stupidity )
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To: irishjuggler

Uh, please tell me that does not include bacon. Going to ruin breakfast if I have to ditch it.


29 posted on 10/11/2025 3:37:28 AM PDT by Kudsman (48)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I do like some deli stuff, pastrami especially, but for the most part I don’t like what’s on the list, but a cold Coke on a hot day I enjoy occasionally.


30 posted on 10/11/2025 3:40:38 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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To: srmanuel

Yikes! That is a long time. I could lose a little weight, but wouldn’t want to have to do it like that.


31 posted on 10/11/2025 3:51:32 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Do NYC rats have coronary disease problems?


32 posted on 10/11/2025 3:53:56 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I’m guilty of 2 and 5. Like anything moderation is fine. When you’re time’s up it’s up.


33 posted on 10/11/2025 3:56:10 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Interesting article. But also a bit confusing.

For example, the good doctor warns against margarine because many versions still contain trans fats.

Well, what about margarine that doesn’t contain trans fats?


34 posted on 10/11/2025 3:58:13 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

6. Margarine and fake butter spreads

Once marketed as a heart healthy butter alternative, margarine turned out to be one of the biggest nutrition myths ...

9. Flavored coffee creamers

That morning splash...


Once again ignoring a primary principle.

“The dose makes the poison”

A tablespoon a day of anything short of arsenic is not going to kill you. That said, I’ve always gone for products resulting from the actual cow squeezings anyway because anything else is an inferior substitute.

Wonder how many of these 9 items in not a few years will turn out to nutrition myths?

One of the biggest nutrition myths is the so-called “heart heathy” diet promoted by the AHA, etc. Because of The Big Fat Lie it’s all carbs. Now everyone is obese and diabetic.


35 posted on 10/11/2025 3:59:14 AM PDT by Locomotive Breath
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To: PGR88

They were made differently then.

But I’m having a hard time believing that canned soups are bad because they have so much salt in them.


36 posted on 10/11/2025 4:00:45 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: PGR88
My German and Czech ancestors seemed to thrive in things like sausage, ham and salami

And they lived well into their 80s or 90s, did they?

In any event, they certainly didn't eat them on a daily basis.

Once showed my students an old Nazi "Wochenschau" praising the introduction of the "Meatless Sunday" (intended as a wartime austerity measure). The students thought that that shouldn't have been so awfully difficult to do; after all, it was only a single day per week - until I explained to them that, traditionally, Sunday had been the only day of the week on which meat would be eaten. The "Meatless Sunday" thus effectively meant foregoing meat all together. Their minds were blown!

Regards,

37 posted on 10/11/2025 4:02:51 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: srmanuel

It’s not only good for circulation and heart rhythm but stimulates your bowels and if you’re already accustomed to drinking coffee in the morning, without it you’re likely to get a headache from withdrawal, but a post-op headache is a nightmare to all concerned. I can’t tell you how many times as an intern/resident/attending I wound up telling the staff to just give the patient a cup of coffee for their headache and the magic worked.

But a workup for a headache post-op? It can take hours and thousands of dollars of diagnostics.


38 posted on 10/11/2025 4:03:52 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. Non-native Tennessean.)
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To: PGR88

The difference between (naturally) “cured” meats and ‘processed’.


39 posted on 10/11/2025 4:06:30 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (The Democrats' official policy is now, “Hate, Violence and Murder". Change my mind.)
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To: PGR88

See also this post: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4345653/posts?page=18#18


40 posted on 10/11/2025 4:09:39 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (The Democrats' official policy is now, “Hate, Violence and Murder". Change my mind.)
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