Food Facts

Eat and be healthy this summer... dont forget the peppers and beer tho :shocked2:

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Spicy Foods Heartburn or heart protector? When researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong studied the effects of capsaicinoids—compounds that lends flavor to chili peppers and jalapenos—in hamsters, rodents fed the spicy foods showed lower levels of LDL (“bad”) cholesterol than the animals that ate capsaicinoid-free meals. What’s up? Capsaicionoids appear to block the gene that causes your arteries to contract, leading to relaxed muscles and better blood flow to the heart, researchers believe. Your move: Don’t go overboard with the Mexican. Instead, spice up a salad with half a chili pepper, or a tablespoon of chili flakes a day. Bonus: Sip that Bloody Mary guilt-free—it’s also packed with the capsaicinoid cayenne.

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Beer Red wine may soon have company on the healthy drinks menu. According to a recent review of more than 18 studies on booze, beer is just as good for your heart as vino. Drinking a little more than a pint of beer a day could make you 30 percent less likely than non-drinkers to suffer from stroke, heart attacks, and heart disease, researchers found. Credit heart benefits to the alcohol itself, and polyphenols (antioxidants) in beer. And make sure to drink that beer with a smile

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Burgers As long as they’re grass-fed. How come? A heart-healthy diet has to be balanced in omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. The omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acid ratio is usually way out of whack on most of your conventional beef, but with grass-fed beef, it’s close to 1:3—similar to the ratio found in most heart-healthy fish. Another bonus? Grass-fed beef is loaded with cardio-protective vitamin E. Check out your local farmer’s market to find the best grass-fed beef.

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Steak Yes, it’s true: Even beef can give bad cholesterol a gut-punch, says a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Study participants ate portions of 4.0 and 5.4 ounces of lean beef daily, and saw decreases in “bad” LDL cholesterol of up to 10 percent when combined with a healthy diet. What gives? Previous studies that found that red meat increases heart disease risk have one big flaw: They lump processed meats (sausage, hot dogs, Spam) in a category with red meat. “These are completely different from lean beef in terms of nutrition,” says nutritionist and coauthor of the study Michael Roussell, Ph.D

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Drumsticks “The extra fat in dark turkey or chicken meat raises your levels of cholecystokinin (CCK), a hormone that makes you feel fuller, longer,” says Alan Aragon, M.S., a California-based nutritionist. The benefit: You'll be less likely to overeat in the hours that follow your meal. What about your cholesterol? Only a third of the fat in a turkey drumstick is the saturated kind. (The other two-thirds are heart-healthy unsaturated fats.) What's more, 86 percent of that saturated fat either has no impact on cholesterol, or raises HDL (“good”) cholesterol more than LDL (“bad”) cholesterol—a result that actually lowers your heart-disease risk.

found these on yahoo... thought it was great that my diet is actually kinda-psuedo healthy

BEER AND PEPPERS!!!
(lol that must be like 80% of what i eat )

Phreerider is correct...

right again..

Interesting tidbit to add to the convo. I watched a movie on Gladiators off netflix a month ago. IN the movie they described somehow doing tests on skeletons of Gladiators and figured that their diet was quite possibly mainly vegetarian. We would think the opposite because of the protein in meat. Not sure how accurate though, but somehow it made sense when the narrator was describing the theories given.


Still trying to work my way up in the chilli world so that I can sample some of the good and hot stuff out there. Unfortunately I'm still to scared to go past jalapenos.