Foods NOT to eat -- part 3 D
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Today's post: Tuesday, 7-11-2006
Foods NOT to eat -- part 3 D
Foods to hardly ever eat or stop eating, part D
Your best choice is to simply substitute a Superfood you like for this group of foods.
But, if you are in good health & getting enough exercise, it’s probably OK to eat some of them a few times a year.
D. Full fat milk (sometimes called whole milk); Cream; & Butter.
Though not nearly as bad as transfats, these foods do tend to increase your bad LDL levels.
And, they cause other problems & tend even more to cause heart disease when they are subjected to high or prolonged heat.
Unfortunately many of the foods & recipes the United States inherited culturally came from Nothern Europe. And, when these foods were developed, many people died young before they could develop noticeble health problems; and people got a LOT more exercise including lots of daily walking; there was no summer air conditioning & the winter heating, which was badly needed in that climate, was of poor quality in most cases. Even worse, these populations had survived several hundred years of periodic famines.
And, they had a dairy cattle to draw from for fat calories & protein in their food.
With the partial exceptions of people who get an hour or more of vigorous exercise almost every day and those who are too poor to get decent heating in the winter, none of these conditions apply now.
But the foods & the recipes are still with us. Even worse, they are great recipes for making foods taste good.
To prevent uneccessary & avoidable heart & other cardiovascular disease, don’t eat these foods or don’t eat them more than about once a month. Never eat them in large quantities or more than twice a week.
And, make a strong effort to avoid cooking with Full fat milk (sometimes called whole milk); Cream; & Butter with high heat or for long periods of time.
Drink skim milk or 1 percent fat lowfat milk or eat another kind of food with protein & drink water instead of drinking Full fat milk.
Use 1 percent fat lowfat milk instead of half & half. (Most of the half & half I’ve seen sold recently is not half & half really as it has no milk in it & is simply light cream only.)
Then, in cooking, where you can at all do so, subtitute extra virgin olive oil for butter or cream.
And, if you need the taste of butter, use much less & add it melted quickly at a low heat AFTER the main cooking has been done if at all possible.
The second reason not to eat Full fat milk; Cream; & Butter is that they simply don’t have the health benefits of the health-enhancing Superfoods that do have some oils & fats.
Eat Superfood sources of fats & oils including nuts like Almonds, Walnuts, & Pecans as they are high in monosaturated oils, or the ALA precursor to Omega 3 oils; they are low in saturated fats; & they are low in other Omega 6 oils. In addition, they are high in sterols & fiber & heart health enhanching minerals like magnesium & in the amino acid l-arginine.
Extra virgin olive oil is a superfood since it is very high in monosaturated oil, low in saturated fats; & very low in Omega 6 & very high in antioxidants.
Avocados have a similar profile to nuts & extra virgin olive oil plus many other vitamins & minerals.
Wild caught salmon & sardines are high in Omega 3 oils. (They also tend to be lowest in mercury & other pollutants.) Properly refined fish oil supplements have Omega 3 oils & no pollutants as do DHA supplements sdrived directly from algae.
Each of these superfoods have multiple & proven health benefits.
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: Tuesday, 7-11-2006
Foods NOT to eat -- part 3 D
Foods to hardly ever eat or stop eating, part D
Your best choice is to simply substitute a Superfood you like for this group of foods.
But, if you are in good health & getting enough exercise, it’s probably OK to eat some of them a few times a year.
D. Full fat milk (sometimes called whole milk); Cream; & Butter.
Though not nearly as bad as transfats, these foods do tend to increase your bad LDL levels.
And, they cause other problems & tend even more to cause heart disease when they are subjected to high or prolonged heat.
Unfortunately many of the foods & recipes the United States inherited culturally came from Nothern Europe. And, when these foods were developed, many people died young before they could develop noticeble health problems; and people got a LOT more exercise including lots of daily walking; there was no summer air conditioning & the winter heating, which was badly needed in that climate, was of poor quality in most cases. Even worse, these populations had survived several hundred years of periodic famines.
And, they had a dairy cattle to draw from for fat calories & protein in their food.
With the partial exceptions of people who get an hour or more of vigorous exercise almost every day and those who are too poor to get decent heating in the winter, none of these conditions apply now.
But the foods & the recipes are still with us. Even worse, they are great recipes for making foods taste good.
To prevent uneccessary & avoidable heart & other cardiovascular disease, don’t eat these foods or don’t eat them more than about once a month. Never eat them in large quantities or more than twice a week.
And, make a strong effort to avoid cooking with Full fat milk (sometimes called whole milk); Cream; & Butter with high heat or for long periods of time.
Drink skim milk or 1 percent fat lowfat milk or eat another kind of food with protein & drink water instead of drinking Full fat milk.
Use 1 percent fat lowfat milk instead of half & half. (Most of the half & half I’ve seen sold recently is not half & half really as it has no milk in it & is simply light cream only.)
Then, in cooking, where you can at all do so, subtitute extra virgin olive oil for butter or cream.
And, if you need the taste of butter, use much less & add it melted quickly at a low heat AFTER the main cooking has been done if at all possible.
The second reason not to eat Full fat milk; Cream; & Butter is that they simply don’t have the health benefits of the health-enhancing Superfoods that do have some oils & fats.
Eat Superfood sources of fats & oils including nuts like Almonds, Walnuts, & Pecans as they are high in monosaturated oils, or the ALA precursor to Omega 3 oils; they are low in saturated fats; & they are low in other Omega 6 oils. In addition, they are high in sterols & fiber & heart health enhanching minerals like magnesium & in the amino acid l-arginine.
Extra virgin olive oil is a superfood since it is very high in monosaturated oil, low in saturated fats; & very low in Omega 6 & very high in antioxidants.
Avocados have a similar profile to nuts & extra virgin olive oil plus many other vitamins & minerals.
Wild caught salmon & sardines are high in Omega 3 oils. (They also tend to be lowest in mercury & other pollutants.) Properly refined fish oil supplements have Omega 3 oils & no pollutants as do DHA supplements sdrived directly from algae.
Each of these superfoods have multiple & proven health benefits.
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