Eat yourself healthy: Advice from experts on heart health and diet - grill basket for shrimp

You are bombarded by false evidence and bad advice from scammers, advertisers, and humble devotees about what to eat, on a fashion diet.
I'm sorry about this, so every once in a while I feel the need to work with real experts on the idea of a healthy diet.
Unfortunately, the fact is boring and I'm sorry.
If you're the kind of person who only reads the first few paragraphs of a long story, here's a short note: add a few fresh fish, fruit, vegetables and nuts will almost certainly be better for you on your diet than anything they replace.
Amanda Nash said: "There are a lot of eating systems and eating outside. it is difficult for people to understand what is a healthy method and what is not a healthy method . " Community Nutrition Manager, Heart and Stroke Foundation.
"It caused a lot of confusion.
"The truth is, your mom and her mom are right, and Nash's message echoes our traditional ideas about the family --
Cooked food: "We want to eat a healthy, balanced diet that includes a variety of minimum processed foods, whole grains, fruits and vegetables.
"Prepared food with the words" nature "on the purchase label will not decrease.
The food we are talking about here is not even labeled.
Think: apple, onion, spinach, lettuce or single
Staple foods such as brown rice or lentils.
Basically, if there is a list of ingredients, it has too many ingredients. Is it hard?
Of course, it's harder than what you 've been doing so far, but it pays off.
Processed food
This is any ready product. to-
Eat or discover in a jar or box --
It contains about 77 sodium in the Canadian diet.
"The main information about salt has not really changed," noted registered dietitian Nash . ".
"We know we want to limit sodium intake.
The way to do this is to buy complete natural food and cook it at home.
"Limiting high processed foods is a single action that has the greatest impact on your sodium consumption.
"When it comes to heart health, sodium can keep you in extra water, which causes blood pressure to rise," she said . ".
"We know there's a direct relationship.
Despite the siege of this message.
A recent study by German scientists monitoring Russian astronauts on the Mir space station found that increasing salt intake seems to help them process fat into water.
Researchers, Jens Titze, also found that mice had to eat 25 cents more in order to maintain their weight. salt diet.
Nash doesn't care, neither should you.
They are astronauts and mice, neither of you.
Nutrition research is puzzling that the media reported reckless ways of scientific discovery without any help.
People use this information to create life.
Change the decision.
The Heart and Stroke location statement is a superior source of dietary and health information. Boring Take-
You can't believe everything you read, so be selective.
From avoiding gluten to eating so-called super foods like coconut oil, it is very popular among North Americans.
"Now there is some confusing information around saturated fat," she said . ". Plant-
The saturated fat content based on coconut oil is very high, depending on the research you are looking for advice or the Internet quack, it is either really good or really bad.
An example of a recent headline: "Coconut oil and beef fat are as unhealthy as butter;
Calm down, please. no problem with coconut oil. U-
Turn on "super food" coconut oil.
Devotees buy this previously abandoned oil by the Bath and cook everything in it.
The American Heart Association recently reiterated its position that saturated fat is the cause of heart disease.
Nash is more cautious.
"It's hard to say (the risk)
But it may be that foods made or eaten with saturated fat are the real problems, such as cinnamon bread, "she said.
"We know that saturated fat increases low-density cholesterol, a risk factor for heart disease.
Processed foods, like sodium, are the main source of saturated fat in our diet, and you don't have to worry too much about that.
"If you fill half a plate with vegetables, it doesn't matter if you put a small amount of coconut oil, margarine or butter," Nash said . ".
"Use a small amount of fat of your choice.
Tropical wonders
Fat Sounds super
Sexy, have devotees they can't breathe, but there is little evidence that eating them will do you any good. Boring Take-
Away from 2: It's stupid to eat only those fashionable fats.
Medlar, Thistle, acai berries and mega-
Their loyal followers took a certain dose of ginger.
But Professor Simon Fraser University says to know if any food is good, you have to design an experiment to control people's intake for decades
Scott Lear, president of cardiovascular prevention research.
He says it's hard for people to remember what they eat, and if you ask them to keep records and make measurements, it's like an intervention, changing what they eat and how much they eat.
This is why it is difficult to prove that health benefits are well-known.
It's hard, you should ignore all the claims about health on the Internet.
They are mostly hypothetical or directly paved.
"If we find that people who eat a lot of fish live longer, it suggests that the fish may be beneficial," said Lear . ".
"But you also have to wonder what people who don't eat fish are eating.
Is it the food we added or the food we took?
"If you replace saturated fat with refined carbohydrates --
As many people do to misleading fats
Phobias advocated by Western governments in their 70 s and 80 s
The result may be obesity, says Lear.
However, replacing saturated fat with olive oil has obvious health benefits.
DASH diet on Mediterranean diet
Diet to stop high blood pressure
It is rare to have convincing evidence that it is beneficial.
Both prefer whole grains, beans, vegetables, nuts and fish to red meat and processed foods. Boring Take-
Away from 3: With the support of science, our cheap, dull old friends hummus, oats, lentils and olive oil are the only dietary staples.
I'm sorry.
"People really need a diet plan that is not complicated and doesn't try to eliminate all kinds of nutrition," Nash said . ".
"The problem with so many fashionable diets is that they are complex and very strict.
"The diet of the ancient or the Caveman and the diet of the raw ketone eliminate all grains while gluten-
Free diet-
Nutritious grains, of course, do not eat meat for vegetarians.
But grains contain fiber, protein, and essential vitamins, while meat
Unless managed carefully, a free diet can lead to a reduced risk of fat and certain vitamins.
"The reduced diet does not provide all the nutrients you need, and they are generally not sustainable in the long run," Nash said . ".
"People see short
Lose weight for a long time, but they usually return to weight.
"That is, unless you are willing to live as a shepherd of Sardinia, it is very difficult to follow the Mediterranean diet for life.
In North American food culture, eating six to ten servings of fruit and vegetables a day is not a picnic, says Lear.
"If I eat five, it's an achievement," he said . "
Applying fat such as butter and margarine is reduced to less than a week, while eating four tablespoons of olives a day is also difficult to achieve in our diet culture.
Eat red meat once a month?
Forgot to eat in the restaurant
However, you can choose effective foods from the Mediterranean diet and still benefit.
"Focus on adding a variety of healthy options," Nash said . ".
Eat more fish every weekin theory —
Knock off a portion of red meat or chicken.
Lentils can replace carbohydrates from refined sugar.
A handful of nuts may save you from a chocolate bar. Boring Take-
Stay away from 4: You 'd better add high nutritious food to your diet instead of trying to subtract what you think is evil.
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