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Today's post: Thursday, 6-15-2006
Only OK Occasionally Foods -- part 4
( 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.
HAM & BACON.
These two meats are quite high in fat & saturated fat.
So, why on earth not put them in my foods to avoid list?
1. If you are following a healthful lifestyle otherwise; have LDL cholesterol of 100 or less & no active heart disease, etc, they are safe to have a few times a year or even a couple of times a month.
(Niacin, insositol hexaniacinate, & sterol supplements do cut LDL levels by the way. And, if your total intake of niacin & insositol hexaniacinate per day is 900 mg or less, they are much safer than drugs. And, both also boost your protective HDLs. Sterols like Beta Sitosterol are found in foods & very safe & cut LDLs successfully.
If you have LDLs over 160 or active heart disease, statins are effective. And are safer & de-energize you less if taken with 90 mg a day or more of the supplement CoQ10.
Lastly, the new drug Vytorin may be a good choice if your LDLs are over 180 as it gets the results of a large statin drug with far less of a statin drug combined with a drug that cuts LDLs a different way which also reduces side effects & risks to you if you take a drug to cut your LDLs.)
2. If you are in a restaurant or fast food place & have to order SOMETHING & there’s no health-enhancing choices, ham or bacon may actually be your best choice !!
They are usually NOT cooked by frying them in transfats. Pigs do NOT get Mad Cow disease from what I’ve read. So, you don’t have to choose beef likely to be other than grass fed or organically fed only if ham is on the menu.
And, either ham or BLT’s with bacon or bacon are often on the menu in many places.
3. You may be a guest at a dinner with friends or family & have them serve you ham.
4. You may occasionally want a sandwich with meat & either be tired of turkey or not like it.
(Also, in that case, Healthy Choice sells sliced him the right size in most supermarkets that has had a good bit of the fat & saturated fat removed.)
The other thing you can do is eat ham or bacon with no added fat or saturated fat & eat it with LOTS of onions.
Onions somehow keep saturated fat from sludging up your arteries if its eaten at the same time as lots of onions.
So, if you make such a sandwich or get a ham sandwich or BLT in a restaurant, use no mayo or butter or margarine & go with mustard only. And, add onion slices every time if at all possible. And, pass on eating ham & cheese at the same meal at least 80 % of the time that you eat either one.
5. The meat in ham & bacon is unusually high in vitamin B1 & has good quality protein.
The other two keys to eating ham & bacon safely are:
Don’t eat them at all often. Somewhere between three times a year & no more often than twice a month is about right.
& Don’t eat them if you have active heart disease or your LDLs are too high.
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: Thursday, 6-15-2006
Only OK Occasionally Foods -- part 4
( 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.
HAM & BACON.
These two meats are quite high in fat & saturated fat.
So, why on earth not put them in my foods to avoid list?
1. If you are following a healthful lifestyle otherwise; have LDL cholesterol of 100 or less & no active heart disease, etc, they are safe to have a few times a year or even a couple of times a month.
(Niacin, insositol hexaniacinate, & sterol supplements do cut LDL levels by the way. And, if your total intake of niacin & insositol hexaniacinate per day is 900 mg or less, they are much safer than drugs. And, both also boost your protective HDLs. Sterols like Beta Sitosterol are found in foods & very safe & cut LDLs successfully.
If you have LDLs over 160 or active heart disease, statins are effective. And are safer & de-energize you less if taken with 90 mg a day or more of the supplement CoQ10.
Lastly, the new drug Vytorin may be a good choice if your LDLs are over 180 as it gets the results of a large statin drug with far less of a statin drug combined with a drug that cuts LDLs a different way which also reduces side effects & risks to you if you take a drug to cut your LDLs.)
2. If you are in a restaurant or fast food place & have to order SOMETHING & there’s no health-enhancing choices, ham or bacon may actually be your best choice !!
They are usually NOT cooked by frying them in transfats. Pigs do NOT get Mad Cow disease from what I’ve read. So, you don’t have to choose beef likely to be other than grass fed or organically fed only if ham is on the menu.
And, either ham or BLT’s with bacon or bacon are often on the menu in many places.
3. You may be a guest at a dinner with friends or family & have them serve you ham.
4. You may occasionally want a sandwich with meat & either be tired of turkey or not like it.
(Also, in that case, Healthy Choice sells sliced him the right size in most supermarkets that has had a good bit of the fat & saturated fat removed.)
The other thing you can do is eat ham or bacon with no added fat or saturated fat & eat it with LOTS of onions.
Onions somehow keep saturated fat from sludging up your arteries if its eaten at the same time as lots of onions.
So, if you make such a sandwich or get a ham sandwich or BLT in a restaurant, use no mayo or butter or margarine & go with mustard only. And, add onion slices every time if at all possible. And, pass on eating ham & cheese at the same meal at least 80 % of the time that you eat either one.
5. The meat in ham & bacon is unusually high in vitamin B1 & has good quality protein.
The other two keys to eating ham & bacon safely are:
Don’t eat them at all often. Somewhere between three times a year & no more often than twice a month is about right.
& Don’t eat them if you have active heart disease or your LDLs are too high.
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