You would enjoy this book!................
Posted on 03/15/2023 5:16:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
The humble sandwich is the saboteur of the American diet.
Most Americans consume too much sodium, sugar and saturated fat, according to government survey data. Sandwiches—which almost half of Americans eat on any given day—are a primary culprit. Nutritionists, doctors and public-health officials are trying to nudge people to make their sandwiches healthier, believing that even simple changes can improve health.
Sandwiches are the number one source of sodium and saturated fat in Americans’ diets, making up about one-fifth of our daily sodium intake and 19% of our daily saturated fat calories, according to an analysis of federal survey data. Sandwiches contribute 7% of daily added sugars, the same percentage as breakfast cereals and bars.
“The standard deli sandwich with processed meat and cheese, you’re literally eating a heart bomb,” says Dariush Mozaffarian, a cardiologist and professor of nutrition and medicine at Tufts University.
Excess sodium increases blood pressure, which raises the risk of heart disease and stroke. People also eat an extra nearly 100 calories on the days they eat sandwiches, according to federal survey data analyzed by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers. Sandwiches are often high in calories compared with other meals.
Time-strapped Americans reach for sandwiches because they are tasty, portable, often inexpensive and ubiquitous, dominating the menus of fast-food joints, corporate cafeterias and brown-bag school lunches.
“Americans eat so much of their meals not sitting down at a table. They are eating in their cars or at their desks, so sandwiches are easy,” says Erica Kenney, assistant professor of public-health nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
You don’t have to stop eating sandwiches, nutritionists say. But you can make them healthier, with more-nutritious breads and fillings.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Just in time for our Church’s hoagie sale. THE best Italian sub EVER!
Baloney. It doesn't include beer.
So does Publix!...................
Yes.........................
You would enjoy this book!................
Bread made from “ancient grains” is no better. MRI’s of mummies show they had heart disease and diabetes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fewDdSUSwg&t=4s
Every food article is clickbait these days. And I agree that I never thought I’d see the day when The Wall Street Journal was clickbaiting with headlines about your sandwich being a “heart bomb.”
Salt and preservatives (I presume we’re talking Nitrates and smoking here) are harmless to most Americans. And unless they’re referring to PB&J (emphasis on the J) or fluffernutters (are those even a thing anymore), where’s the sugar?
The saturated fat mentioned later is a problem with the sandwich they showed, but who eats sandwiches like this, with TWENTY slices of cheese? One or two, tops... maybe three for that rare grilled cheese sandwich, which is only worth eating if it’s freshly grilled, so is strictly a rare, weekend thing
I’m starting to think they set Jared up. (ONLY A JOKE)
And died young.......................
Thx. I’ll check it out.
Agree. The main issue in the modern western diet is not saturated fat or minute amounts of preservatives or salt, rather the ubiquitous carbs. Carbs rapidly become sugar when digested. We are dosing ourselves with massive amounts of sugar which has profound metabolic consequences including diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Cut the carbs.
Not just heart issue, but if a person has kidney issues, it wreaks havoc on them as well. I’ve been eating ham and egg sandwiches for. BReakfast all my life practically, and it’s really taken its toll it seems.
It’s the bread. That creates sugar in the bloodstream, bringing on diabetes and cholesterol, ergo heart disease.
Eat all the proteins you want, cut out the breads, sugars, rice and pasta. We are not cows....................
Yep! I may die a bit sooner, but I will have lived eating things I enjoyed- besides, who want to be 110, sitting in a wheelchair, barely able to move about and when all you have to look forward to is a tofu salad to “keep,you healthy”? Nope, no thanks
OMG.
I understand projecting to the stupid beyond, but are FReepers so dumb as to find this nanny article informative?
Exactly. I would think that being happy and enjoying things is as important almost as “eating right all the time”- the health benefits from enjoying yourself likely offsets any gain had by eating stuff that makes you near puke.
The agenda revealed: The processed meats—roast beef, ham, the bacon in your BLT—you find at the deli counter or in packages at the grocery store are loaded with sodium and preservative.
LIES, LES AND MORE DAMNED LIES! Some name-brand roast beefs have preservatives. But “store-cooked” roast beef has none whatsoever, as well as very low Sodium and very low fat. Meanwhile, deli chicken and turkey breast ARE often high in sodium and preservatives.
You can tell sodium content by taste. And if it has a perfectly smooth, almost plasticky or ham-like feel, it’s got preservatives. They get that feel from being marinated. Fresh turkey and roast beef feel like your thanksgiving or Christmas dinner turkey and roast beef. The less roast beef or turkey feels like high-quality ham, the better. (Some low-quality hams [”deli” or “domestic”] are made out of molded ham broth and scraps and can ironically feel softer, and thus in some ways more similar to rare roast beef.)
Yep, and those carbs are highly processed to contain no fiber at all, or anything else other than preservatives and other nonfood poisons.
I had to increase my salt use, because my intake was so low, and I had stupidly assumed I’d gotten enough from everything, including restaurant food.
Dehydration is a real concern, when you never add salt to anything.
I saw a cartoon once of an incredibly decrepit old man sitting on an examination table, with the doctor saying something like, “Remember how if you gave up all your bad habits and ate healthy foods, it would add years to your life? Well, these are those years.”
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