Researchers find a western-style diet can impair brain function
Researchers find a western-style diet can impair brain function
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"Researchers find a western-style diet can impair brain function"
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I refrain from making a political wisecrack. Let’s just blame fast food for many American behaviors. Keep calm and LC on.
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That's like doing research that shows that the sun always rises in the East.
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What a shocker. I vote to ban the use of terms like "western-style diet." It's meaningless and serves no specific purpose, kinda like "Mediterranean Diet." No one can precisely define either, so the population is left to their own interpretations along with the distorted ideas of health we are exposed to every day. |
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--Overwhelming preference for packaged, processed, "instant" (eg. microwaveable), and so-called convenience foods. --Massive consumption of sugar, both sugary products (eg. ice cream, soft drinks, fruit drinks) and sugar as an ingredient (eg. breakfast cereals, breads, processed meats like hot dogs). --Massive consumption of Fast Food as a category (eg. KFC, burger joints, many casual dining places, eating away from home as a lifestyle). Those are my top-three Killer Categories defining the "western" diet--including the products and "food" franchises often exported to other countries. |
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That makes sense. Although it IS possible to eat at a fast food place more healthily-salads, eggs, burgers without the buns, or an unbreaded chicken breast. The dressings often have lots of sugar though. You can ask for butter at Mcdonalds and it is ACTUAL butter. They also have sliced apples or apple bites. Here are the ingredients of the mix for Starbucks Frappe: This base contains sugar, natural and artificial flavour, water, xantham gum (which is a thickening agent), caramel color, caffeine, and potassium sorbate. Why couldn't they make a mix without the caffeine and sugar? Just use Splenda. You CAN get a lot of other drinks sugar free though. Get the skinny Mocha syrup steamed milk (made with coconut or almond milk if you are dairy intolerant) , or sugar free teas, cappuccinos etc. |
The only thing about FF places and trying to eat more healthy it's impossible when the chicken breast has sugar injected and marinated into the meat but probably also starch filler. Burger patties are most likely not 100% meat and probably also have sugar in the mix.
Apples are full of sugar not to mention the dipping sauces which are probably pure corn syrup. Eggs, it's been proven that the egg mixes are mixed with pancake batter, I-hop even prints that on their menu. The McDonalds eggs taste sweat to me so I think there is sugar in them too. Salad might be OK but I think there are preservatives on the lettuce since I have seen it last for days without oxidizing and then there are the dressings which are all full of sugar. The only thing I would drink at Starbucks is black coffee with heavy cream. |
My objection to the "anyterm" preceding diet is that it implies a structured way of eating foods that are allowed on this "anyterm" diet as a prescriptive way of achieving health through a diet. I can understand an Atkins diet or a Martini and Whipped Cream diet, or Westman's Page 4 diet. Those advise on which foods are in or out. "Western" and "Mediterranean" not so much. When I hear medical professionals tell people to eat a healthy diet, it's almost assumed that everyone knows what that is. I usually ask, "what do you mean specifically by a healthy diet?" Not surprisingly, many are incapable of providing the details.
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That isn't IT. Whatever keeps you healthy is "normal" eating. BTW, I totally agree that there are LC hacks for eating out, even at fast food places. Bunless burgers, etc. Indeed, we brought the pressure to make those options possible. But that's not what most commentators mean by the "Western" diet. |
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I agree and it's why fast food places are at the bottom of my list. Even convenience stores now have hardboiled eggs and those cheese & Slim Jim things for sale. It's astonishing when you take the bun off the nutritional stats and it's STILL high carb! |
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I remember one instance where carbs attributed to the meat patty turned out to be a mistake in the nutritional stats. It's been years ago, and I can't recall which fast food place it was, but I think it was either McD's or BK. (could very well have been someplace else though) At any rate, some LCer contacted the corporate offices of the fast food place and asked how their 100% beef patty could have carbs in it. They looked into it, and it was a mistake in calculating the nutrition stats - the number of carbs are determined by deducting the total fat calories and the calories from total protein grams from the total number of calories - anything left over is attributed to carbs. They looked into it, and determined that someone had goofed up the calculations, and attributed carb calories to the burger patty, because they confirmed that it was indeed a truly 100% beef patty with no additives. They immediately corrected the nutrition stats on their website. That could have all changed by now, since that incident happened years and years ago, and we know that as time goes on, THEY're spiking everything with sugars to make the food more addictive. Still, if they're claiming 100% beef, or 100% real chicken, and yet showing carbs in the beef and chicken, we need to call them on it, hold them accountable to be honest about it. They can either admit that it's not 100% meat, or they can stop adding carbs to them, their decision. |
Taco Bell, for instance:
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Makes you wary of anything that ISN'T 100% beef, no? |
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