Posted on 03/15/2023 5:16:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
The humble sandwich is the saboteur of the American diet.
Most Americans consume too much sodium, sugar and saturated fat, according to government survey data. Sandwiches—which almost half of Americans eat on any given day—are a primary culprit. Nutritionists, doctors and public-health officials are trying to nudge people to make their sandwiches healthier, believing that even simple changes can improve health.
Sandwiches are the number one source of sodium and saturated fat in Americans’ diets, making up about one-fifth of our daily sodium intake and 19% of our daily saturated fat calories, according to an analysis of federal survey data. Sandwiches contribute 7% of daily added sugars, the same percentage as breakfast cereals and bars.
“The standard deli sandwich with processed meat and cheese, you’re literally eating a heart bomb,” says Dariush Mozaffarian, a cardiologist and professor of nutrition and medicine at Tufts University.
Excess sodium increases blood pressure, which raises the risk of heart disease and stroke. People also eat an extra nearly 100 calories on the days they eat sandwiches, according to federal survey data analyzed by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers. Sandwiches are often high in calories compared with other meals.
Time-strapped Americans reach for sandwiches because they are tasty, portable, often inexpensive and ubiquitous, dominating the menus of fast-food joints, corporate cafeterias and brown-bag school lunches.
“Americans eat so much of their meals not sitting down at a table. They are eating in their cars or at their desks, so sandwiches are easy,” says Erica Kenney, assistant professor of public-health nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
You don’t have to stop eating sandwiches, nutritionists say. But you can make them healthier, with more-nutritious breads and fillings.
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Any article that says .......here’s how, I automatically think click bait, or another tiresome list that is either common sense, or complete nonesense.
Nitrites and nitrates are a big problem. I had to cut them out
Clickbait? From The WSJ?..................Say it ain’t so!.................
Sprouted grain and ancient grain breads, cauliflower rounds, nitrate- and nitrite-free meats - all sorts of good options out there.
They don’t bother me, but my wife gets headaches from them, so we have to buy the more expensive brands that don’t have them.......................
Experts like this literally make my head explode.
Some of the problem is related to colon cancer. Processed meats are bad for you anyway.
They’re dead serious, too.
The diet-industrial complex has gotta eat.
My wife’s cousin died of cancer about a year ago, and when they ate at FF restaurants it was always Subway, never McD’s, BK or Wendy’s, only Subway, Subway, Subway..................
Oscar Wilde — ‘Everything in moderation, including moderation.’
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Meanwhile the government inks a lucrative deal with Kraft-Heinz to provide school kids with Lunchables, a sodium rich, nutrition poor borderline snack-food for lunch.
Daves Bread is delicious and has all natural stuff. Wonder Bread and any white bread is the devil. We make awesome blackened salmon with arugula and tzatziki sauce on Sourdough which is also acceptable bread.
Deli meats of any kind are bad. Processed and full of chemicals. I’ve cut all these things but one thing I refuse to give up is my Dukes Mayo. Never
The same people who want to inject us with experimental “vaccines” are worried about our health because we eat sandwiches.
Hey, if the government can’t convince your kids to kill themselves by using cross-sex hormones, then getting them started on poor nutrition at the earliest age may help get rid of a few more.
Skip the processed meats. Get some thin sliced ham and turkey from the deli counter.
Please…
The bigger threat of any sandwich from a health perspective is the bread.. period.
True,........................
I’m not 100% sure, but I think I saw high fructose corn syrup in the ingredients list on the back of a Duke’s jar recently. Maybe there are other varieties without it, though. I’m just trying to make sure I don’t have that very often. I love mayo, but try use it sparingly.
I am still going to eat whatever I want in moderation.
BUT
I was shocked when I discovered a few years back that two pieces of bread (which would be in a sandwich) contain about the same amount of carbs as a Snickers Bar!!!!!
It rather shocked me.
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