{"id":688,"date":"2019-01-01T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodstuffconnections.com\/?p=688"},"modified":"2020-04-17T16:54:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T16:54:42","slug":"healthy-diet-regimen-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodstuffconnections.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/01\/healthy-diet-regimen-beware\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthy diet regimen, beware!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Before you hit the road on that holiday vacation or business trip with a mindset of maintaining a healthy diet regimen, beware!\u00a0 What you \u201cthink\u201d you know about healthy food choices can hurt you.\u00a0 Eating healthfully can be extra challenging when you are out and about, whether traveling remotely, in transit from point A to point B, or dining out locally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cardiologist, chef, and martial artist, Dr. Mike Fenster, author of \u2018The Fallacy of the Calorie,\u2019 lists eight medically-based food facts to help you correct common dietary deceptions.&nbsp; This is information that will compel you to rethink your approach to healthy eating not only when you travel, but also when you\u2019re preparing everyday fare at home:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\"><li>Diet salad dressings are equally,<\/li><li>or more, detrimental. Opting for a salad even with \u201clight\u201d dressing when dining out may not be the healthiest choice.&nbsp; Whether it is low calorie, low fat, or regular salad dressing, it\u2019s often loaded with omega-six polyunsaturated plant oils\u2014too much of which is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular problems.&nbsp; In fact, consuming too much of these salad dressings can be even more harmful to your waistline and overall health than what you presume to be \u201cless healthy\u201d menu items you were trying to avoid with the best of intentions.&nbsp; When opting for salad, stick with just a little olive oil, vinegar, fresh lemon juice or nothing at all.<\/li><li>Burgers beat deli meat. Despite conventional thinking, the consumption of fresh red meat that isn\u2019t over processed has not been associated with any increased risk of heart disease, cancer, or mortality. Many restaurants today, outside of the fast food variety, offer freshly ground, quality burgers\u2014some even use beef that\u2019s organic, grass fed, and pasture raised.&nbsp; In contrast to fresh red meat, the consumption of highly processed meat and meat products like that typically used in deli sandwiches often presumed to be a healthier option over burgers- has proven to be associated with an increased risk of heart disease, cancer, and mortality.&nbsp; Piling on a few zombified vegetables that have marginal nutritional value won\u2019t give the meal much more health merit.<\/li><li>Diet drinks are tied to disease. The common misconception that you can avoid or compensate for poor food choices with diet drinks is a double-edged exercise in futility.&nbsp; In fact, studies have shown women who drink more diet drinks are heavier and have an increased risk of diabetes and heart disease.<\/li><li>Under-salted food may be a<\/li><li>diet disservice. We season our food so it tastes good, and a properly seasoned meal leaves us more satisfied and less likely to binge and over-consume. What\u2019s more, adding salt to fresh food only accounts for about 5% of the daily intake\u2014well within bounds.&nbsp; But, \u201cfresh\u201d is the key word as over 75% of an average person\u2019s daily sodium intake comes from eating highly processed and prepared foods.&nbsp; Seek out those restaurants that utilize fresh ingredients, from produce to proteins.&nbsp; In a worst case scenario, stop into a market and grab some fresh fruit, optimally organically grown, to tide you over.<\/li><li>Low cholesterol advertising<\/li><li>is a fat trap.&nbsp; Most are surprised to learn the cholesterol consumed in one\u2019s diet has little or nothing to do with your blood cholesterol levels.&nbsp; Foods and menu items promoted as \u201chealthy\u201d because they are \u201clow in cholesterol\u201d are often loaded with fat, sugar, or other additives that cause more harm than a three egg omelet ever could.<\/li><li>Bars are bogus. Energy bars, protein bars, granola bars, and other so-called healthy eating snacks are often marketed as an all-natural or otherwise nutritious choice.&nbsp; The fact is that many of these bars are highly processed and contain high levels of low-nutrient fillers and sweeteners like high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).&nbsp; Diets high in added sugars, fructose in particular, have been associated with an increased risk of developing hypertension, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and other life-threatening medical conditions.&nbsp; Bars are also often loaded with artificial sweeteners such as aspartame that\u2019s linked to a myriad of health ailments.&nbsp; The short term energy boost bars provide is often followed by a \u201ccrash\u201d that can cause you to eat yet more unhealthy bars or other food to get revved back up.<\/li><li>Bagels are the \u201cother\u201d<\/li><li>white bread.&nbsp; Many people are aware of the empty calories and the lack of any nutritional redemption in a slice of white bread.&nbsp; Commercial breads are the number one source of sodium in the average American diet.&nbsp; They also often contain significant amounts of refined sugar and fat in the form of detrimental omega-six polyunsaturated fatty acids.&nbsp; While many health-seekers do already avoid that slice of white bread for these many unappealing reasons, they may not know a seemingly benign plain bagel is equivalent to several slices of white bread\u2026even before the addition of toppings or fillings.<\/li><li>Counting calories is a fallacy. A calorie is measured by turning food to ash and recording the amount of heat given off.&nbsp; The caloric content of a food or beverage item doesn\u2019t have much to do with how we actually metabolize our food.&nbsp; Additionally, calories alone do not accurately reflect a food\u2019s nutritional value.&nbsp; For example, a 100 calorie soft drink is not the nutritional equivalent of a 100 calorie apple.&nbsp; Healthful eating isn\u2019t about focusing on the quantity of calories, but rather it is about the quality of the consumable.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether you are at home or on-the-go, taking even these few considerations into account relative to the quality of the \u201chealthy\u201d food at hand can have a significantly positive impact on your diet and overall well-being.&nbsp; Indeed, the food and drink choices you make when traveling can put you on the road to good health or result in a figurative food fatality. Dr. Mike Fenster, \u201cAmerica\u2019s Culinary Interventionalist,\u201d is a Board Certified Cardiologist, chef, and athlete whose cutting-edge medical expertise and insight, culinary talents, and dedication to fit living convene in his uniquely integrative Grassroots Gourmet\u2122 approach to food-born health.&nbsp; His upcoming book, \u201cThe Fallacy of The Calorie: Why the Modern Western Diet is Killing Us and How to Stop It,\u201d is currently available for pre-order at w<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eating healthfully can be extra challenging when you are out and about, whether traveling remotely, in transit from point A to point B, or dining out locally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,64],"tags":[84,124,123],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-health","category-nutrition","tag-health","tag-healthy-food","tag-vacation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodstuffconnections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodstuffconnections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodstuffconnections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodstuffconnections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodstuffconnections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodstuffconnections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/goodstuffconnections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodstuffconnections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodstuffconnections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodstuffconnections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodstuffconnections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}