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Nothing tortillas can't fix.
Can't tell if this is sarcastic. Hispanic communities suffer from large amounts of obesity, some due to genetic issues, but diet is an overwhelming factor. A proper tortilla has three ingredients: flour, lard and salt. Not exactly a staple in a slimming diet.
> Twenty years later, a turkey sandwich contained about 820 calories. Not sure where they got those numbers from. Just for comparison - in England, where many people eat sandwiches every day, the range is more like 300-500 for a supermarket sandwich. The meat is processed, but chicken is a fairly popular option, and the bread is thinner and less sweet. Really the main takeaway is to reduce your bread. Carbs are terri…
> Carbs are terrible for diets, don't satiate you and most people eat too many. I think most people's experience is precisely the opposite with regards too satiety - non-sugary carbs are the most important component for satiety. Bread, rice, potatoes - these are all commonly eaten to increase the feeling of fullness.
This article references salt consumption multiple times. I thought that was a myth of the past. Salt consumption has almost zero to do with blood pressure. IIRC, it's primarily based on eating more calories than one burns. As always, eat less, move more. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-t...
I'm actually curious about this: if that's true, why do hospitals still do low-salt diets for critical heart disease patients?
[1] https://twitter.com/DrBenRodgers/status/1508084691269738503 (someone having a diabetic emergency, no less!)
[2] https://twitter.com/moreyraortho/status/1635779523651473409
> Twenty years later, a turkey sandwich contained about 820 calories. Not sure where they got those numbers from. Just for comparison - in England, where many people eat sandwiches every day, the range is more like 300-500 for a supermarket sandwich. The meat is processed, but chicken is a fairly popular option, and the bread is thinner and less sweet. Really the main takeaway is to reduce your bread. Carbs are terri…
> Carbs are terrible for diets, don't satiate you and most people eat too many. I think most people's experience is precisely the opposite with regards too satiety - non-sugary carbs are the most important component for satiety. Bread, rice, potatoes - these are all commonly eaten to increase the feeling of fullness.
> Sandwiches are the number one source of sodium and saturated fat in Americans’ diets, making up about one-fifth of our daily sodium intake and 19% of our daily saturated fat calories 20% of sodium and saturated fat calories for a single meal doesn't really sound very alarming.
Yeah, how many meals do people eat in a day anyways? Like max 5?
This article references salt consumption multiple times. I thought that was a myth of the past. Salt consumption has almost zero to do with blood pressure. IIRC, it's primarily based on eating more calories than one burns. As always, eat less, move more. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-t...
I'm actually curious about this: if that's true, why do hospitals still do low-salt diets for critical heart disease patients?
> “The standard deli sandwich with processed meat and cheese, you’re literally eating a heart bomb,” says Dariush Mozaffarian, a cardiologist and professor of nutrition and medicine at Tufts University.
Rubbish. Neither of those things are a "heart bomb." We can debate whether they should be eaten, but that's dishonest hyperbole.
> Sandwiches contribute 7% of daily added sugars, the same percentage as breakfast cereals and bars.
Added sugar isn't that relevant. When you consume bread, those carbohydrates are converted into glucose anyway.
> Excess sodium increases blood pressure, which raises the risk of heart disease and stroke.
Define excess.
> People also eat an extra nearly 100 calories on the days they eat sandwiches,
Calories are a unit of heat. The human body doesn't have a calorie counter. It's an electrochemical system that responds to mass with hormones. 100 "calories" is so trivial here it's laughable. Good luck measuring to the degree of hundreds of calories. The average person doesn't have adequate tools to do this, nor would it even be worthwhile in the first place.
> Our sandwiches weren’t always this bad for us.
The bread in a sandwich is not good for you at all. Doesn't matter how much fiber you leave in it.
> Each serving a day of processed meat is associated with a 42% increased risk of heart disease and a 19% increased risk of diabetes, according to a review of research co-authored by Dr. Mozaffarian and published in the journal Circulation in 2010. More recent research has found similar results. Eating processed meats has also been linked to an increased risk of certain types of cancer.
Processed meat may not be a good thing.
However, this is not "risk." It's an association with heart disease, diabetes, etc. Not the "risk" of either. Risk requires cause and effect.
> Be sparing with mustard [...] who calls them “salt vehicles.”
Horseshit. There's no reason for a healthy person to avoid mustard other than that it's not required nutritionally. A squirt of mustard on your sandwich is an absolutely trivial amount of sodium.
> Ketchup is often high in added sugars, too.
Yeah, it's high in sugar. But then again, why eat bread if that's going to raise your blood glucose more than a squirt of ketchup?
> Load your sandwich with tomato, lettuce and other vegetables for fiber and important nutrients.
You don't need to eat any of those, and there's especially no reason to eat leaves.
> Peanut butter has protein and healthy fats that keep you full.
It's also usually full of added sugar, unless you go out of your way to get sugar-free peanut butter, which is often hard to find.
> Choose jam low in added sugar, too; it’s even better if you can see chunks of whole fruit.
A nutritionist shouldn't be recommending to eat jam or jelly of any kind.
> Twenty years later, a turkey sandwich contained about 820 calories. Not sure where they got those numbers from. Just for comparison - in England, where many people eat sandwiches every day, the range is more like 300-500 for a supermarket sandwich. The meat is processed, but chicken is a fairly popular option, and the bread is thinner and less sweet. Really the main takeaway is to reduce your bread. Carbs are terri…
> Carbs are terrible for diets, don't satiate you and most people eat too many. I think most people's experience is precisely the opposite with regards too satiety - non-sugary carbs are the most important component for satiety. Bread, rice, potatoes - these are all commonly eaten to increase the feeling of fullness.
Other people have said I am demonising carbs, perhaps there is a middle ground (something like brown rice) that could add to the satiation without spiking glucose levels.
1 tbsp of mayo is 90 calories
Oscar Meyer sliced turkey is 45 calories, let's double that and make it 90
Total of 360 calories. Seems perfectly reasonable.
20oz soft drink is 250 calories, 1-3/4 oz bag of Doritos is 260, this adds 510 calories, for a total of 870
The problem is fast food. Head over to Arby's, and the Marketfresh Roast Turkey Ranch & Bacon Sandwich is 800 calories. We'll skip the soft drink and fries.
> Each serving a day of processed meat is associated with a 42% increased risk of heart disease and a 19% increased risk of diabetes The wording of this either is confusing or is a huge understatement. Does this mean that eating a serving a day for some time period correlates with a huge increase in heart disease and diabetes or, read literally, that each day you eat a serving of processed meat correlates to a huge i…
y = x ^ 1.42
Where x is the average number of servings of processed meat per day and y is the annualized risk of death due to heart disease.