Posted on 08/19/2021 9:26:53 AM PDT by sevinufnine
A fresh bun, that juicy meat, a dash of onions, and slathering of mustard — it makes the mouth water. But is a hot dog really worth losing 36 minutes of healthy living? This is the question posed by "experts" led from the University of Michigan who have evaluated more than 5,000 foods by how much they affect your healthiness. They say that chicken wings can cost you 3.3 minutes of robust living whereas salted peanuts and baked salmon gain you some 26 and 16 minutes, respectively. The study was undertaken by environmental health expert Olivier Jolliet of the University of Michigan and colleagues.
'The urgency of dietary changes to improve human health and the environment is clear,' said Professor Jolliet. 'Our findings demonstrate that small targeted substitutions offer a feasible and powerful strategy to achieve significant health and environmental benefits — without requiring dramatic dietary shifts.'
In their study, the researchers considered 5,800 different foods including hot dogs, pizzas, yogurts and cheeses in terms of both their impact on human health as well as on the environment. For the former, the team developed a new, epidemiology-based rating dubbed the 'Health Nutritional Index', which calculates the health burden of given servings of food in terms of the minutes of healthy living lost or gained from eating them. The new index was developed from the Global Burden of Disease study, in which the total incidence of and mortality from given illnesses were linked to single food choices by individuals.
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The hotdog is only an excuse to eat sauerkraut and that extends your life by an hour.
I liked this response:
So two servings of nuts after my hotdog will put me in the black. Got it.
All my grandparents ate hot dogs on a regular basis (we were a picnic kind of family!) And all lived into 90s and one into 100s.
Then it’s a good thing peanuts are not really nuts! Another thing I found too funny about this article. “Experts” saying to eat nuts, then refer to peanuts which are legumes. LOL.
In other words it is absolute complete and total bullcr@p! You must have a BS meter that has been broken by being exposed to too much leftist propaganda.
I grew up raising cattle, horses, pigs, chickens and other farm animals. The rage lately is to claim that it takes a couple thousand gallons of water to produce a pound of beef. This is utter nonsense! The statistics are based on false assumptions. Water wasn't even one of expenses we figured in. And we didn't feed the cattle grain or even alfalfa on a regular basis. They ate mostly grass from unirrigated fields and land, and grass hay from unirrigated fields.
What happens if you cut out all food? Do you live to be 300?
Exactly. BS piled on more BS.
Pete Buttigieg says, “Eating nuts ADDS to life? Yippee!”
Eat a hot dog followed by 18/13 servings of nuts and you break even.
But is a hot dog really worth losing 36 minutes of healthy living?Lots of Costco members are going to die.
I had scrapple for breakfast. Pretty sure that is worse than a hot dog. I have three portions of nuts later today to compensate.
Shouldn’t Kamala be dead considering all the weiners she’s downed?
Joey Chestnut is alive and well. Don’t worry about it.
LOL. Yeah, that was a good one also.
Awww. Come on now! I love sauerkraut. (Actually I do.)
I can't read fractions.
I wrote my reply before I saw that you also realized this was absolute BS.
So, if you eat hotdogs and nuts, then you should break even.
Why can’t they just shut up and leave people alone?
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