What counts as “processed” deli meats?
My German and Czech ancestors seemed to thrive in things like sausage, ham and salami
Yeah, they’d count ham, salami and sausage as “processed.” My understanding that “processed” is meat that is subject to any sort of preservation or curing process. Non-processed meat is just plain ol’ butchered meat without any curing or smoking.
Because they worked off the fat, not being overweight, which is usually concomitant with the conditions the doctor cites. While a steady diet of most of these is not good, I think that a person who normally will "eat in due season for strength [when needed for energy, physiological hunger: vs. psychological or hedonic hunger], and not for drunkenness [intoxication]" (Ecclesiastes 10:17) and only as much as needed for energy, and includes healthy foods but also some of the forbidden ones, would normally be healthier and live longer , by the grace of God - other factors being equal - than one who only eats "healthy" but to excess.
They were made differently then.
But I’m having a hard time believing that canned soups are bad because they have so much salt in them.
And they lived well into their 80s or 90s, did they?
In any event, they certainly didn't eat them on a daily basis.
Once showed my students an old Nazi "Wochenschau" praising the introduction of the "Meatless Sunday" (intended as a wartime austerity measure). The students thought that that shouldn't have been so awfully difficult to do; after all, it was only a single day per week - until I explained to them that, traditionally, Sunday had been the only day of the week on which meat would be eaten. The "Meatless Sunday" thus effectively meant foregoing meat all together. Their minds were blown!
Regards,
The difference between (naturally) “cured” meats and ‘processed’.
Big difference between naturally cured meats, and highly injected/processed forms of cold cuts we have here in the U.S.
Take Oscar Mayer bologna for instance. What the hell is that stuff?
Most likely referring to nitrites, but wish the article would specify.
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.
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...
Lunch meat, I stopped eating them a couple of years ago, all kinds of preservatives. I now use chicken or tuna salads. I love sausage and brats, just go to a meat market where it is made in house.
That was because they made them without modern preservatives. The food industry is killing us.