SATURATED FATS

They recently showed on GMA how much saturated fat can affect your arteries in record time.....it was amazing to watch the results of the blood tests on the 2 reporters before and after eating a high fat meal....scary actually ....no wonder we are getting sicker and sicker.
We all need fat in our diets but we can eat foods like avocados, almonds or walnuts all high in fat but highly nutritious.Or we can add the right amount of olive oil to what we are eating which is very healthy , but no, we love bacon, fried chicken and the mac and cheese which is so high in saturated fat and overworks our heart.The GMA feature showed that our blood goes back to normal after a few hours or a few days depending on what we eat ,how much we eat and how long we have been eating it, as we keep eating like this day after day our blood gets thicker and thicker and harder to be pumped throughout our body therefore giving our heart, liver, kidneys etc. too much work to clean them and keep us healthy.
The doctor doing the tests was distressed and depressed as he remarked "this is how we are killing America" yes sir, not only America - these things have been shipped to 3rd world countries in massive amts. and we are also doing it to ourselves in the name of progress, like the new "made in Jamaica" vegetarian foods that have just come out.....the ingredient list almost takes up the entire bag and if you can pronounce one word you good!
Watching the reporters put their lives on the line to let us see, since we won`t hear,it came to me that it's just like how I keep preaching and I wonder if anyone is hearing....... so here I go one more time:
- Choose foods as close to, or in their natural state.
- Eat as little as possible the foods that come in boxes, jars and cans, that way we avoid preservatives.
- Eat foods with ingredients you can pronounce and look for the one word ingredient e.g.the ingredient of spinach is spinach....... choose the food with the short ingredient list, the longer the list the more additives and processing.
- Avoid anything thing with too long a shelf life
Also most important - remember the word is still moderation.