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 )

Is that US pint of KZ pint?

Get some grass fed happy cow and you wont want to buy any other meat ever again. Yak is really good too if you can find it.

And some Raspberry Ghost ice cream for Dessert......

Yes....that's Raspberry and Ghost Pepper ice cream......yummy......you can get it at Crooks in Central City, Colorado.......

may want to check a book called THE CHINA STUDY, c. campbell of cornell. the largest collection of human data ever collected from over 800,000 people.

this study confirmed animal based diets WILL produce pathology in man.

also campbells own rat study where he truly CONTROLS cancer in rats with animal protein adjustments in there diet...prior to the china study.

and a heart surgeon, Esselstyn of cleveland clinics

campbell and esselstyn totally for plant based diets, this is contrary to the continued lifestyle maintiance of modern western medicine.

check out the doc. "forks over knives" if its not compelling then just lite the grill and enjoy.... despite knowledge of a profound nature.

thread veer over..just saying

You can selectively pick and choose certain facts and ignore others all you want.We all do it...avoiding the bigger picture sometimes. Rationalization is the mother of most bad decisions.

Plant based diets( or mostly plant based) will always be healthier. period.

The way 95% of meat and poultry is raised and processed is so wrong...especially compared to natural free range style and the old way(hundred+ years ago) .

.... And I'm a meat eater too!

Cows aren't supposed to eat corn...( you'll never see a farmer shooing a cow out of his cornfield because it's eating the corn)..... but that's what they're being fed. Which leads to mass antibiotics given so they don't get major ulcers and die from it. It can actually kill the cow. See the film 'King Corn'.

And now that antibiotic fed meat is in you.

Corn is in everything...or more to the point...CORN SYRUP!
Ironically, the only thing corn syrup isn't in is......... CORN!
Eat that delicious ear of sweet corn before they process it!

A little bit of alcohol is good or harmless...but too many abuse it, and it turns into about the biggest curse in society regarding what we ingest. From addiction( biggest of all types of addictions) causing liver and heart disease, to social damage of drunk drivers killing and maiming hundreds of thousands of innocent people, damaging millions in property. Also add in it causing abuse, negligence, broken marriages..etc.

Regular vigorous exercise may partially counter some of the 'bad' stuff we ingest. May...and ... just partially .

Thread veer wasn't quite over....

no doubt on the pepper tho....with wasabi it does provide a moment of clarity.

Hot pepper is only completely innocuous item on quote list.

....except if you eat a ghost/Trinidad Scorpion, you wont think so when you're on fire...:o

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.

turn of the century the "LIFE FORCE" was thought to be PROTEIN. in comparative studies of malnourished children low protein was seen as the problem. this mind set was totally sold to "the meat hungry public" and commodities flourished....what pliable consumers! anyway meat is extravagant energy use and western practices supports this right down to medicine as "life style maintenance" (thats a pill/surgery for everything) instead of lifestyle change.

and yes the diet of KINGS will kill us. a war machine(like gladiators were mercs/prisoners are not really prize fighters) and could not afford meat and no kingdom would feed meat to army. so very plausible shaggs

my brother in law is actually a chilli head...his product made to UK. cappy's brain strain sauce with the brain strain variety as its feature . thought i would share , check it DREW worthy! his company is called pepper ridge farm in good ole mt. pleasant, SC (chas)