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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
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Maybe he has a third wife.
“Hubby has been keto for 6 years and carnivore for 1 year. “
What is the difference between keto and carnivore?
Maybe. Present tense was used, though.
Maybe more than one ... at a time. 😳
“The common thread?”
according to my heart surgeon, he says the common thread is mainly genetics ...
I only do two, i.e., deli meats, and one diet pop a day.
We started off on keto ... then, switched to Dr William Davis’ Undoctored ‘lifestyle’, a few years ago.
Hubby is off all of his Rx meds (I was never on any) and his inflammation and autoimmune issues are completely gone, per recent scopes.
Dr Mary Talley Bowden talks about doing the carnivore diet ... and, how she lost weight - the few pounds she’d been trying to lose, for years (she’s TINY to begin with!).
Glad your hubby has found something that sounds like is working wonderfully! 🙏🏻
“Last week I was in the cardiac ward and the meal they served included a fake butter spread, no option for real butter.”
i’m with you ... i’ve been arguing with the head nutritionists at hospitals for decades about their ridiculous “heart healthy” diets ... the first time i was ORDERED to have only a “heart healthy” diet, i was disallowed eggs, but 7-Up and actual margarine [Crisco + artificial flavor & color] were listed as “heart healthy” ...
and speaking of the sodium nonsense, my heart surgeon said it was BS with the exception of a few people who are especially sensitive to sodium ...
My German and Czech ancestors seemed to thrive in things like sausage, ham and salami
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Probably homemade without all the chemicals and preservatives they load into today’s store-bought garbage.
i agree though, that most of the so-called “foods” on that list are pure garbage ...
““By the time of the American Revolution, all the data suggests Americans were eating between 150 and 200 pounds [of meat] a year,” says Roger Horowitz, director of the Hagley Museum and Library’s Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, and author of Putting Meat on the American Table. “That included everything from pork to muskrats.”
https://www.popsci.com/why-americans-eat-so-much-meat/
“Well, what about margarine that doesn’t contain trans fats?”
the current margarines are made with fully hydrogenated vegetable oils, which technically do not contain trans fats.
nonetheless, margarines aren’t really food ... in college, in private student apartments full of cockroaches and flies due to execrable kitchen cleaning habits, i noticed that flies and cockroaches would never touch margarine, though they’d eat pretty much anything else, no matter how disgusting ...
Yet people in America are living longer than ever.
It is literally the answer. I preach the same thing to everyone.
-Brace your knees before they hurt.
-Move around. Wander. Go places. Do the Walmart 500. Just wander aimlessly while you shop at a store.
-Eat responsibly. You know the right thing to do so do it. Carbs are the problem.
-Dress nicely when you go out. The thrift stores are full of dress clothes. Wear a nice $5 sportscoat. Wear a coat and tie for no reason. When you look good, you feel good. You don’t want to be staring at the ceiling of a nursing home lamenting “I should have used the good china”.
-Exercise your brain. Read. Listen to podcasts while traveling. Write in a journal. Plan your day, every day, every week, every month. Document what you do. Turn off the TV, turn on music.
Your life span is determined by those you chose for grandparents rather than what you eat...
I am 89 and on no prescription drugs and mentally alert. All of my grandparents made it past 85 when the average lifespan was 55...
I regularly eat almost all of the “bad things” especially processed meats...
lol
Easy to cut out most of this stuff.
Read the label on the creamer container and you will see what they’re talking about.
I don’t think there is such an animal
Keto allows so many grams of carbs a day, 20-30. It’s not about limiting calories as much as carbs. Some doctors say eat as much fat as you want, others say balance fats and proteins.
Carnivore is almost zero carb. Hubby’s diet is meat (including organ meat) eggs and fish. He will sometimes eat cheese but it increases inflammation.
He feels great and amazingly his cholesterol is within normal range now. It had always been high, even when he was a skinny teenager and even when doctors had him on a statin!
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