Re: FAST FOOD and INFLAMMATION

[Guest guest]

Great...now we have to redefend ourselves for eating fat. I wish all

fat wasn't groped together like this. It's like saying all milk is bad

whether it is full of hormones and chemicals, raw, pasteurized.

Blanket statements irritate me.

I hope nobody is mad at me for saying that.

L.

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 21:44:29 -0500, Allan Balliett <igg@...> wrote:

> from Netscape News

>

>

> The Worst Breakfast You Can Eat

>

> It may be fast and convenient to stop at Mc's for breakfast on

> your way to work, but this may make you think twice: Eat two

> McMuffins and two hash browns for breakfast and your arteries will

> remain inflamed until lunchtime, HealthDayNews reports of a new study

> from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

>

> Why worry about inflammation of the arteries? This is a direct

> pathway to atherosclerosis and heart disease.

>

> The specific breakfast cited by the SUNY Buffalo researchers is a

> Mc's Egg McMuffin, a Sausage McMuffin, and two orders of hash

> browns. Total calories: 930. (It was supersized to reflect the

> typical amount of calories in a fast food meal.) Eat this and within

> an hour, it will trigger inflammation, says study co-author Dr.

> Paresh Dandona. What's more that inflammation continues for three or

> four hours longer.

>

> Most of us are well aware that high-fat, high-carbohydrate meals

> raise our cholesterol levels and send our blood sugar rates soaring.

> That puts us at greater risk for diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

> But now nutritionists are aware there is a third danger: inflammation

> of the blood vessels. The fats and carbohydrate sugars appear to

> release " free radical " molecules within the blood cells, which in

> turn trigger the inflammation, reports HealthDayNews.

>

> When nine healthy young adults ate this 930-calorie McMuffin/hash

> brown breakfast after an overnight fast, their blood showed a

> definite change compared to individuals who ate no breakfast. Those

> who ate the Mc's breakfast displayed " evidence of free radical

> generation by the circulating white blood cells, which would cause

> inflammation within the white blood cells, " Dandona said.

>

> The primary culprits of the Mc's breakfast are the hash

> browns, cooking oil, and muffins--not the egg or sausage. The SUNY

> Buffalo team is now studying the effects of 300-calorie and

> 1,800-calorie breakfasts. Note that Mc's isn't the only

> breakfast that can stress your arteries. Sit-down restaurants and

> even home-cooked meals can do the same thing.

>

> The study findings were published in the April issue of the American

> Journal of Clinical Nutrition

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

>> The primary culprits of the Mc's breakfast are the hash

>> browns, cooking oil, and muffins--not the egg or sausage. The SUNY

>> Buffalo team is now studying the effects of 300-calorie and

>> 1,800-calorie breakfasts. Note that Mc's isn't the only

>> breakfast that can stress your arteries. Sit-down restaurants and

>> even home-cooked meals can do the same thing.

I'd love to see more blood-test work after meals like this. I mean,

there is also the account of that gentleman who tried to LIVE off

fast food for a month and got very ill. So now they tested folk's blood

after eating a McD's breakfast and found, guess what, high levels

of inflammatory compounds.

So how did they come to the assumption it was the cooking oil, not

the sausage? Sausage is full of fat too ... did they actually test each

component of the meal? I mean, if they do tests like this and

in fact the usual fast food oil tests as inflammatory, and, say,

coconut oil and good beef fat does not ... that will be some really

useful information! Right now most of what " they " say about fats

etc. is based on epidemiological studies, which are hard to interpret

with a great degree of accuracy.

Also this flies in the face of the usual " healthy heart " recommendations,

which would say the muffin would be the BEST thing on the menu,

certainly it wouldn't cause inflammation! (well, OK, *I* would say it

would cause inflammation, but the Heart Assocation wouldn't).

Anyway, more and more it seems that they are pinpointing a lot

of the current health issues on inflammation, more than fat

or cholesterol. This is the first I've heard that they are pinpointing

foods that lead to inflammation. Last year the Times ran an issue

on inflammation, but they didn't have a good handle on exactly

what the cause of said inflammation was, just that it was becoming

an epidemic.

>

Heidi Jean

[Guest guest]

I haven't been following this thread, so maybe I missed this, but what about the

transfats? That's what I would say is wrong with Macs.

Carol

>> The primary culprits of the Mc's breakfast are the hash

>> browns, cooking oil, and muffins--not the egg or sausage. The SUNY

>> Buffalo team is now studying the effects of 300-calorie and

>> 1,800-calorie breakfasts. Note that Mc's isn't the only

>> breakfast that can stress your arteries. Sit-down restaurants and

>> even home-cooked meals can do the same thing.

I'd love to see more blood-test work after meals like this. I mean,

there is also the account of that gentleman who tried to LIVE off

fast food for a month and got very ill. So now they tested folk's blood

after eating a McD's breakfast and found, guess what, high levels

of inflammatory compounds.

So how did they come to the assumption it was the cooking oil, not

the sausage? Sausage is full of fat too ... did they actually test each

component of the meal? I mean, if they do tests like this and

in fact the usual fast food oil tests as inflammatory, and, say,

coconut oil and good beef fat does not ... that will be some really

useful information! Right now most of what " they " say about fats

etc. is based on epidemiological studies, which are hard to interpret

with a great degree of accuracy.

Also this flies in the face of the usual " healthy heart " recommendations,

which would say the muffin would be the BEST thing on the menu,

certainly it wouldn't cause inflammation! (well, OK, *I* would say it

would cause inflammation, but the Heart Assocation wouldn't).

Anyway, more and more it seems that they are pinpointing a lot

of the current health issues on inflammation, more than fat

or cholesterol. This is the first I've heard that they are pinpointing

foods that lead to inflammation. Last year the Times ran an issue

on inflammation, but they didn't have a good handle on exactly

what the cause of said inflammation was, just that it was becoming

an epidemic.

>

Heidi Jean

[Guest guest]

Boy, , I wouldn't worry about defending NT fats from the 'fats'

contained in a Mc's meal! In my reading, the Mc's 'fats'

were so questionable that the fats in the sausage were not even

considered to be causative.

For me, I assumed this was a study that showed the dangers of

" industrial fats. " You know, like how my knees are full of pain for

days after using a butter substitute in a truck-stop meal. Things

like that.

I guess the other side of this is that people need to keep their

anti-oxidant levels higher, also.

Sorry if I passed on distrubing news!

-Allan

[Guest guest]

No more disturbing than turning on the evening news, don't apologize.

I love fats, I have recently discovered just how beneficial fat can

be, I am scared of transformed things....

L.- who believes that God/Nature made things right without our help.

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 09:15:16 -0500, Allan Balliett <igg@...> wrote:

> Boy, , I wouldn't worry about defending NT fats from the 'fats'

> contained in a Mc's meal! In my reading, the Mc's 'fats'

> were so questionable that the fats in the sausage were not even

> considered to be causative.

>

> For me, I assumed this was a study that showed the dangers of

> " industrial fats. " You know, like how my knees are full of pain for

> days after using a butter substitute in a truck-stop meal. Things

> like that.

>

> I guess the other side of this is that people need to keep their

> anti-oxidant levels higher, also.

>

> Sorry if I passed on distrubing news!

>

> -Allan

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