BE HEART AND CANCER SMART

There is an ad for Nutrigrain that I saw on TV recently and it is spot on......it shows that if you start the day eating well you usually end the day eating well . I find once we come off track e.g. eating a piece of fried chicken - the cravings start and can`t stop......Once we start with the fruit and vegetables our taste buds get used to it and we adjust to eating that way for the day and as we eat that way we feel good, we look good, all bloat is gone and we continue eating that way....Then comes the day when we don`t prepare the right things to eat or our eyes are bigger than our stomachs and we are right back to square 1.
I saw today that Kentucky Fried Chicken will be donating heavily to the Susan G Komen centre for breast cancer when you buy their pink buckets of chicken.... God help us !! I would never say Kentucky Fried Chicken causes us to have breast cancer , but if you have breast cancer should you be eating Kentucky Fried Chicken??...........
Just asking?
In Jamaica KFC is doing lots of good things for needy communities like their partnership with the Jamaica Library Service to promote literacy among children and the recent opening of another one of their homework centres, but with the rising awareness of the dangers of childhood obesity I would love to see some indication that the ingredients being used in the production of their products are not contributing to this problem.
This talk about fried chicken leads me to another serious health issue - heart attacks - the #1 killer,.....
Even if you eat well and get plenty of exercise, your arteries can inevitably get hard, stiff and full of gunk during your lifetime.
As early as age 10, you may start to accumulate fat in your arteries and by the time you’re 20, you may have up to a 20% closure of three coronary arteries causing poor
circulation. Surely we are always stunned when we hear of young people suffering massive heart attacks..They usually don`t make it!
One tell-tale sign of poor circulation is tingling or feeling cold in your hands and feet - you think you are cold but sometimes there is a deadlier reason.....
As you approach your 40s, unhealthy lifestyle practices like eating your beloved fried foods cause more damage to the arterial linings and a steady coat of plaque may surround your arteries. Left unchecked this arterial plaque may multiply and restrict blood flow…
By the time you are 50, your arteries are likely to be full of thick, sticky plaque and too narrow for optimum blood flow.
At this stage you need to have a by-pass of some sort.
At 60, the linings of your arteries are so full of stiffened and restricting plaque that blood flow is drastically reduced.
At that stage you have a one in three chance of experiencing a heart or brain disaster.
So take the first step to preventing such a disaster - don`t bodda with the fried chicken no matter how much they are donating to a good cause.