(4) …”The bigger message here is that it’s bad for our #health to be too #purist about food. 🍲
The best #diet is not the one that contains the largest volume of perfect foods - not that such things exist - but the one you can stick to for the long term while still #enjoyinglife. 🥕 🥨
No matter how #virtuous it may be, if what you eat gives you no pleasure, it can’t be a #healthydiet.” 🍱
(3) …”The research suggested that one of the reasons is that #Spanishcooks tend to fry in #oliveoil, which is ‘less prone to #oxidation than other edible oils & fats.
A 2nd reason is that in #Spain, #friedfood does not equate w/#fastfood.
One of the most popular #friedfoods, whether eaten at home or in a restaurant, is #boquerones, oily little #fish that are rich in #omega3 oils - #antiinflammatory fats that lower the risk of heart attacks.”…
(2) “Rather than offering diatribes against #friedfood per se, I wish that nutrition experts would be more honest about the fact that all #frying is not the same.
I was fascinated to come across a 2012 study from #Spain, involving more than 40,000 people, which found no link between eating a lot of fried food & the risk of coronary #heartdisease.”…
(1) “Is a #deepfried #artichoke or a plate of salty greens #healthy or #unhealthy? 🥦 🥗
Mainstream #nutrition has no answer to this question, whether you define healthy eating narrowly in terms of #weightloss (something we really need to stop doing) or more broadly in terms of #diseaseprevention, #hearthealth or overall #wellness.”…
