Heart Healthy Eating

[txdon]

So why is arugula the best green for heart disease? Answer: nitrates
Vegetables rate by nitrate | NutritionFacts.org

What is the preservative in processed meats, that make it unhealthy? Answer nitrates
Is bacon good or is spinach bad? | NutritionFacts.org

Interesting 2 minute videos. Tomorrow's video hopefully will answer the question: What makes the nitrates different?
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Ok, here is todays 2 minute video on nitrates that are added to meat. The last sentence just about sums it up.
http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/when-nitrites-go-bad/

 

[dmccarty]

BLOOD!!! gag, cough. I guess add enough salt fat and sugar and anything taste good.

Don't they still eat soylent green in the UK.

I agree about the blood sausage. :confused2: If I was starving I will eat it, until then, not.

Soylent Green. I surfed into a UK paper that had a story about the local government wanting to use the heat produced by a crematorium to heat a swimming pool. One of the first comments I saw mentioned the old Soylent Green. :laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[brin]

Interesting question. My wife and I were trying to name one or two staples but there are more. Most of what we eat have the following in it:

breakfast and deserts - are made up of mostly oatmeal and fruits.

We eat all sorts of beans - black, lima, kidney beans, soy, pinto, lentils, blackeye, split peas, etc

veggies - carrots, potatoes, onions, celery, peas, tomatoes, peppers(all sorts)

grains - brown rice, whole grain pastas, quiona, couscous, bulgar, whole wheat flour products and corn tortillas,

greens - brocoli, kale, spinach, salad mixtures

Fruits - grapes, bananas, blueberries, apples, oranges, peaches

Milk substitute: low fat or nonfat vanilla soy milk

condiments: ketchup, maple syrup, fat free dressings, pepper, variety of spices.

Don , I have 2 suggestions for items to try and if you love them like we do, then add to your regular diet..

Try this Mahogany Rice...We find it at our local grocery..in with the other rice or in the health food section or Amazon has it. If you eat this rice you will never be happy with another....

Lundberg Black & Mahogany Rice, Black Japonica| Wegmans

Also we eat a lot of pearl barley....we add it to just about everything...it is good anyway you use it...WE use it in soups for taste, chew and as a thickener, great instead of rice and added to everything...see what you think.

 

[Egon]

I agree about the blood sausage. If I was starving I will eat it, until then, not.
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Then there are the glued together meat scraps!

 

[dmccarty]

Then there are the glued together meat scraps!

Years ago I went on the Atkin's diet which is the only "diet" I have ever done. It worked but since I had NOT modified by diet before I got on Atkins, I just gained it all back.

During the diet I went to get lunch. I was trying to eat per the diet, i.e., no carbs but my mind must have been addled because of no carbs.

For some strange reason I ordered a fish sandwich with no bread. The danged fish had BREADING on it. DUH. :laughing: This is the same kind of "fish" you get at McD's, or when I was in a kid in school, and I happened to like it but the breading had to go.

I tried to make the best of the situation, so I tried to remove the breading which was not very successful. What I found was nasty. The "fish" in the fish sandwich was chunks of scrap fish chunks. Not really surprising if you think about it but I had never thunk about it. I also have not had a fish sandwich since then either. :laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[txdon]

Don , I have 2 suggestions for items to try and if you love them like we do, then add to your regular diet..

Try this Mahogany Rice...Also pearl barley

Just got back from the store and struck out on both. We have tried the rice before and love it, it has kind of a nutty flavor if I remember right. I had forgotten about it since it was not at our local store. I'm putting them both on the shopping list for Austin. Thanks!

 

[Egon]

Dan, come on up to the South Shore and get a nice plate of Fish & chips. Nice fresh fish, solid slab pan broiled.:thumbsup:

 

[brin]

Egon...Here I am in Georgia...4 hrs. from the coast and the only seafood we can buy comes from China and costs a fortune...as an example 1 lb. of Frozen Cod Loins ...$4.98...go figure.

 

[Egon]

Dan, we buy Halibut and Scallops from local Fishermen. Get it within a day of the boat returning from a trip.:thumbsup:

Same goes for Lobster.:thumbsup:

 

[txdon]

Dan, we buy Halibut and Scallops from local Fishermen. Get it within a day of the boat returning from a trip.:thumbsup:

Same goes for Lobster.:thumbsup:

It's a shame lobster has about the same amount of cholesterol per ounce as beef. let's not even talk about the butter sauce. Scallops have about half the amount of cholesterol as lobsters, and Halibut is in-between.