Posted on 12/26/2024 7:57:25 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Most of us are aware that certain habits are flat-out terrible for our hearts. Smoking? Forget about it. A sedentary lifestyle — yep, that will eventually get you.
But with diet culture still running rampant, the foods that are “good” and “bad” can feel a bit murkier. The keto diet, for example, encourages piling on the bacon. And while it may help you lose weight, something about chomping on bacon every day feels — not great.
If you’re eating with your heart health in mind (and we all should be, at least a little bit!), you can read through the American Heart Association’s diet and lifestyle recommendations. Or, if you really want to cut to the chase, you can find out which foods top cardiologists avoid 99% of the time.
While none of these foods will kill you if eaten once in a while, cardiologists say these are the foods they never, or very rarely, eat.
(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...
This is just a recommendation for a vegan diet. No steak or breakfast sausage. Bah humbug.
Two slices of bacon and two eggs is not going to kill you.
Breakfast cereal should be on that list.
Cut out sugar for a month. Then, eat a slice of lemon chess pie. Tell me how you feel. Sugar is pure poison. DW and I started keto in October. I’ve lost 15 lbs of actual fat, not just water. Body composition is changing for the better. I frankly don’t miss all the carbs, but it does make it tough in restaurants. Fortunately I cook most all of our meals. No seed oils. No sugar. No carbs, but I will have some diced potatoes fried in bacon fat with peppers and onions on the weekends. We eat meat, cheese, eggs, yogurt, green vegetables, coffee. No calorie counting, just lose the carbs and drink plenty of water. I feel much better these days, and Christmas dinner almost put me down. It is amazing what happens when you step away from a garbage diet for even a short while. I will add that it takes me a while to get warmed up in the gym compared to before, but once I get going I’m fine. I believe I could do carnivore diet with just a little effort.
BS article. I know cardiologists and they LOVE steak.
Thanks for the info
So sad the brainwashing going on.
These preachers do a big disservice to those who swallow the company line.
Enjoy your processed and red meats now. Later enjoy sitting in a chemo ward attached to an IV wondering how best to spend your available time.
all this sttuff, in moderation, aka once a month.
All amongst my father’s favorite meals... And he lived until he was 87 and never had a problem with his ticker. Go figure.
It has been my experience that being near a White Castle is the most unhealthy part of eating sliders.
I don’t see hog jowl and Spam listed, so I’m OK.
1. Yes, when i can get it prepared well (not shoe leather, with caramelized onions), and served with mashed potatoes and gravy
2. Alternates with other breakfast meats
3. Nope.
4. Sirloin as an alternate (see #2), bone-in ribeye for dinner
5. See #2
6. Oh, hell yeah!
7. Only with coffee
8. Meh.
Your post should be bumped and pinned if we had that capability. These 4 items are killing us.
They forgot to include scrapple and kale on the list.
Exactly. Thank you.
Don't eat margarine or beef liver at all, Bologna is an occasional treat although with my new grinder I might start making it, chicken is pan fried and I do not make donuts that often. About once a month I might have time, the potato donuts fried in lard are really good.
The key has always been moderation. In the 1970s, steak was a treat for us, not a regular during dinners. Donuts were served as a Saturday treat. Dad got paid on Friday, so he bought a dozen donuts at the bakery on Saturday. Bacon was served every Sunday for breakfast and on sandwiches and salads. I love liver; I always have. We stopped using margarine years ago. We cooked everything in olive oil now. But in the 1970s, we cooked with lard. Never plant-based oils. When margarine (once called Oleo) and plant-based oils emerged, people were suspicious of their health benefits and taste. It turns out the skeptics were right. We were a healthier nation until the Nineties. The cheaper products became because of additives, the less healthy we became. Growing up, soda was a treat. Today, it is on the table at every meal in many homes. As kids, we got water or milk. Adults in our family all drank either ice tea or coffee during meals.
Everything they said to avoid is good for you in moderation. Eating meat, poultry, or fish with every meal is not bad for you: control portion size and balance with an appropriate veggie and fruit. My grandmother always served apple sauce or baked apples with pork. She said it helped the body digest pork. It's an old wife's tale, maybe. My grandfather raised hogs, so pork was a regular part of our meals, and grandma lived to 95.
Everything on that list is understandable as being bad for your heart except one. Steak is unprocessed meat. It has many nutritious elements in it.
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