Only OK Occasionally Foods -- part 5
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Today's post: Monday, 6-19-2006
Only OK Occasionally Foods -- part 5
( I'm including this section in my blog because eating health-enhancing foods as a permanent lifestyle is a lot easier & more fun if you have some variety in your food.
The key to eating them safely is to eat them very occasionally & NOT more often than that.
Some might be OK 3 times a month, others might be safer once or twice a year.)
Three other keys are:
1. Eat less of them on the days you do eat them than the people do who are clueless about the health effects of the foods they eat.
2. Eat them with Superfoods or foods that lessen or prevent their bad effects.
3. Some of these foods are OK for some of you but not others.
CHEESE.
Cheese comes in many, many flavors & is readily available. And, it has lots of protein.
Some vegetarians eat it as the animals it’s from aren’t killed to get it.
The bad news is that it’s extremely high in saturated fat.
Even fat reduced cheeses are 30 percent by calories & the cheeses with the most flavor run in the 57 percent range. (Nonfat cheeses exist; but they are mostly tasteless; & some even are rubbery & tend to get stuck between your teeth.)
And, the fat in cheese is about 2/3 saturated fat. This means cheeses that taste good have 20 to 38 percent fat by calories.
Since people who are mostly heart disease free usually eat diets that are between five & perhaps as high as nine percent saturated fat by calories, the math is inescapable.
It’s really not safe to eat very much cheese or eat it too often.
That said, if you have low LDLs & high HDLs, you can probably eat cheese occasionally.
You can eat a decent sized serving a few times a year. Or, you can have diced cheese or shredded Parmesan cheese as a component of a salad or other dish a few times a month.
But watch your frequency !! -- because people who eat several larger servings of cheese a week, tend to get or to have high LDL cholesterol.
I’ve had people report to me that their total & LDL cholesterol went UP when they gave up fatty meats to be more heart healthy in their eating & who then ate cheese instead.
Beans & nuts, & to some extent whole grains, are a much better choice for your major protein sources.
Wild caught salmon, sardines, & some of the other Superfoods that provide protein work well when eaten a few times a week also.
And, cheese can have a place. Just be sure to eat cheese a few times a month or a year only &/or eat it in very small servings.
In it we post health commentary & reviews of books, eBooks, & other things that improve or protect your health or which enable you to live longer, to be more prosperous, & to be more effective.
Today's post: Monday, 6-19-2006
Only OK Occasionally Foods -- part 5
( I'm including this section in my blog because eating health-enhancing foods as a permanent lifestyle is a lot easier & more fun if you have some variety in your food.
The key to eating them safely is to eat them very occasionally & NOT more often than that.
Some might be OK 3 times a month, others might be safer once or twice a year.)
Three other keys are:
1. Eat less of them on the days you do eat them than the people do who are clueless about the health effects of the foods they eat.
2. Eat them with Superfoods or foods that lessen or prevent their bad effects.
3. Some of these foods are OK for some of you but not others.
CHEESE.
Cheese comes in many, many flavors & is readily available. And, it has lots of protein.
Some vegetarians eat it as the animals it’s from aren’t killed to get it.
The bad news is that it’s extremely high in saturated fat.
Even fat reduced cheeses are 30 percent by calories & the cheeses with the most flavor run in the 57 percent range. (Nonfat cheeses exist; but they are mostly tasteless; & some even are rubbery & tend to get stuck between your teeth.)
And, the fat in cheese is about 2/3 saturated fat. This means cheeses that taste good have 20 to 38 percent fat by calories.
Since people who are mostly heart disease free usually eat diets that are between five & perhaps as high as nine percent saturated fat by calories, the math is inescapable.
It’s really not safe to eat very much cheese or eat it too often.
That said, if you have low LDLs & high HDLs, you can probably eat cheese occasionally.
You can eat a decent sized serving a few times a year. Or, you can have diced cheese or shredded Parmesan cheese as a component of a salad or other dish a few times a month.
But watch your frequency !! -- because people who eat several larger servings of cheese a week, tend to get or to have high LDL cholesterol.
I’ve had people report to me that their total & LDL cholesterol went UP when they gave up fatty meats to be more heart healthy in their eating & who then ate cheese instead.
Beans & nuts, & to some extent whole grains, are a much better choice for your major protein sources.
Wild caught salmon, sardines, & some of the other Superfoods that provide protein work well when eaten a few times a week also.
And, cheese can have a place. Just be sure to eat cheese a few times a month or a year only &/or eat it in very small servings.
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