The American Diet Has a Sandwich Problem...Americans’ favorite lunch is a ‘heart bomb’ of salt, preservatives and sugar. But doctors say there’s a way to build a healthier sandwich—here’s how.

Wall Street Urinal ^ | March 14, 2023 10:00 am ET | By Andrea Petersen

[stevio]

Just in time for our Church’s hoagie sale. THE best Italian sub EVER!

[RoosterRedux]

A Big Mac ingredients include all the food groups.

Baloney. It doesn't include beer.

[Red Badger]

So does Publix!...................

[Red Badger]

Yes.........................

[Red Badger]

You would enjoy this book!................

[JohnnyP]

Bread made from “ancient grains” is no better. MRI’s of mummies show they had heart disease and diabetes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fewDdSUSwg&t=4s

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Every food article is clickbait these days. And I agree that I never thought I’d see the day when The Wall Street Journal was clickbaiting with headlines about your sandwich being a “heart bomb.”

[dangus]

Salt and preservatives (I presume we’re talking Nitrates and smoking here) are harmless to most Americans. And unless they’re referring to PB&J (emphasis on the J) or fluffernutters (are those even a thing anymore), where’s the sugar?

The saturated fat mentioned later is a problem with the sandwich they showed, but who eats sandwiches like this, with TWENTY slices of cheese? One or two, tops... maybe three for that rare grilled cheese sandwich, which is only worth eating if it’s freshly grilled, so is strictly a rare, weekend thing

I’m starting to think they set Jared up. (ONLY A JOKE)

[Red Badger]

And died young.......................

[RoosterRedux]

Thx. I’ll check it out.

[Blennos]

Agree. The main issue in the modern western diet is not saturated fat or minute amounts of preservatives or salt, rather the ubiquitous carbs. Carbs rapidly become sugar when digested. We are dosing ourselves with massive amounts of sugar which has profound metabolic consequences including diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Cut the carbs.

[Bob434]

Not just heart issue, but if a person has kidney issues, it wreaks havoc on them as well. I’ve been eating ham and egg sandwiches for. BReakfast all my life practically, and it’s really taken its toll it seems.

[Red Badger]

It’s the bread. That creates sugar in the bloodstream, bringing on diabetes and cholesterol, ergo heart disease.

Eat all the proteins you want, cut out the breads, sugars, rice and pasta. We are not cows....................

[Bob434]

Yep! I may die a bit sooner, but I will have lived eating things I enjoyed- besides, who want to be 110, sitting in a wheelchair, barely able to move about and when all you have to look forward to is a tofu salad to “keep,you healthy”? Nope, no thanks

[logi_cal869]

OMG.

I understand projecting to the stupid beyond, but are FReepers so dumb as to find this nanny article informative?

[Bob434]

Exactly. I would think that being happy and enjoying things is as important almost as “eating right all the time”- the health benefits from enjoying yourself likely offsets any gain had by eating stuff that makes you near puke.

[dangus]

The agenda revealed: The processed meats—roast beef, ham, the bacon in your BLT—you find at the deli counter or in packages at the grocery store are loaded with sodium and preservative.

LIES, LES AND MORE DAMNED LIES! Some name-brand roast beefs have preservatives. But “store-cooked” roast beef has none whatsoever, as well as very low Sodium and very low fat. Meanwhile, deli chicken and turkey breast ARE often high in sodium and preservatives.

You can tell sodium content by taste. And if it has a perfectly smooth, almost plasticky or ham-like feel, it’s got preservatives. They get that feel from being marinated. Fresh turkey and roast beef feel like your thanksgiving or Christmas dinner turkey and roast beef. The less roast beef or turkey feels like high-quality ham, the better. (Some low-quality hams [”deli” or “domestic”] are made out of molded ham broth and scraps and can ironically feel softer, and thus in some ways more similar to rare roast beef.)

[hopespringseternal]

Yep, and those carbs are highly processed to contain no fiber at all, or anything else other than preservatives and other nonfood poisons.

[ConservativeMind]

I had to increase my salt use, because my intake was so low, and I had stupidly assumed I’d gotten enough from everything, including restaurant food.

Dehydration is a real concern, when you never add salt to anything.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I saw a cartoon once of an incredibly decrepit old man sitting on an examination table, with the doctor saying something like, “Remember how if you gave up all your bad habits and ate healthy foods, it would add years to your life? Well, these are those years.”