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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Rocky Mountain Oysters instead of walnuts.
With my work, lots of unpaid breaks on the road. If I haven’t brought my lunch, I’ll sometimes go to a Costco for a Polish sausage on a bun and pop for $1.50 CDN (+tax). Tasty, cheap, filling but unhealthy as all get out!
That's because they were racists.
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Fake news!
I eat hot dogs like they are going out of styles. Still alive and well at age 81.
Me too. Kraut is the highlight. Favorite are those pricy fermented refrigerated section krauts.
Electing nuts, however, could shorten your lifespan by years or even decades.
So just imagine how long they’d have lived it they didn’t eat those hotdogs!
Have both.
One cancels out the other.
Chestnut has eaten so many hotdogs that according to this study he should have died in the womb.
“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.”
Oh, I agree with you on the bullcr@p. Only posted this article because it was exactly that, and knew it would be SO MUCH FUN to read the comments. My husband’s family on father’s side were Angus farmers. Best beef I ever ate and yes, grass fed :)
“If it tastes Good...spit it out”
“If man made it, don’t eat it.”
__Jack LaLanne
Best one yet :>)
Eh, perfectly fine. I’ve gone after folks to realize they were playing devil’s advocate, or being sarcastic. Happens :)
How do they know this? How do they know how long anyone is going to live? If someone dies at 7:00, they could have made it to 7:36 if he had only skipped that last hot dog?
“Fake news!”
Depends which part you’re calling fake.
1 That you gain or lose minutes of life based on hotdogs vs. peanuts? FAKE
2 That “experts” have done this study? FAKE experts did it
3 Study was done at University of MI? Sadly, True
4 Someone came up with the idea to do such a stupid study and others wanted to be a part of it? TRUE
5 This article is allowing us to have fun posting/reading in the midst of troubled times? TRUE! :)
Have some of that in the fridge now.
I thought costco doesn’t have polish sausage no more? Actually if you include the wait time at costco....eating a hot dog makes you lose about 50 minutes of life.
I would guess that based on the girth of many, many costco customers...it ain’t the hot dogs that are killing them.
Yeah right... but I understand the wurst, and how it’s made... same with 1300 cows DNA in a chub of ground round. But those are choices we all have to make.
Study probably sponsored by the nut industry. I suppose all the other factors they included had no effect on hot dog calculations.
This is called manufactured, manipulative news.
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