What are the worse foods for a heart patient to eat and is it okay to eat butter pecan ice cream before you work out? No you should not. Always work out AFTER you have eaten butter pecan ice cream. These are some recent and very valid questions. We spend a lot of time reviewing healthy foods and not much time on bad to eat foods. Now what are bad to eat foods for heart patients? High in calories leading to weight gain rather than weight loss. Foods high in LDL cholesterol, triglycerides, and leading to possible artery blockage. Foods high in fat content leading to possible weight gain and heart disease.
We will pick on my favorite. Butter pecan ice cream is a not very good for you food. My favorite flavor and brand comes in at 310 calories and 110mg of cholesterol for a 1/2 cup serving. That is very high on your cholesterol being that would be 37% of your daily max limit. Ever try to eat your favorite ice cream and have no more than half a cup? Do you know how little half a cup is? The bowl I use to eat ice cream from was so big more than half a cup would be left in the bottom when I was finished. Vanilla was 270 calories and 120 mg cholesterol versus chocolate's 260 calories and 90 mg of cholesterol. So do you understand why you should workout after eating butter pecan ice cream? Probably need to be working out while you are eating it. Okay we have now established for the committed to a healthy lifestyle and diet, that ice cream is in our past.
Now for those of you addicted to Cheetos. First let me say I was absolutely surprised at the results. 150 calories and zero cholesterol per serving. Total fat was 10g or 16% of your daily allowance. Now let's analyze the calories versus the serving size. Each itsy bitsy scrumptious Cheetos is 7 calories. Doesn't sound like much does it. So how many Cheetos can you stop at before you have eaten the whole family size bag? Most processed snack foods have the same addictive influence on us. Long term effects on your health but great in taste and flavor, and you cannot eat just one.
Frankfurter, hot dog, frank, or wiener are various names for a hot dog and they come natural skin or not, in all beef, pork, turkey, tofu, veggie, and even more varieties. The most popular being the all beef frank which is what I use to eat. There is some nutritional value differences depending on the brand and of course the variety or meat filler used. A generic all beef franks has 148 calories. This is undressed and no bun, the frankfurter only. Contains 24mg of cholesterol and 513mg of sodium, which is high, very high. Contains no vitamin A or C or vitamin B6. Does contain phosphorous, sodium, and fluoride along with sodium nitrate and pink slim. You remember we discussed those chemicals a while back and they add absolutely no nutritional value or health benefit. Some people, of which I am one, think sodium nitrate is a concern for consumption due to a high risk of cancer. They do increase the shelf and edible life of the food product. Basically they are filler, a flavor enhancer, and a preservative.
Potato chips are a popular snack food. They are a high calorie, flavor satisfying snack. And it is true the more you eat of them it seems the more you want. A one ounce serving contains 160 calories which is about 10 calories per chip. Doesn't sound like many calories when you talk about eating only maybe 10 or so. In fact you are more than likely going to find it difficult to eat less than 50 or so. And at one at a time it will not seem like your are eating a lot of them until you watch the bag go from full to near half full. They are a very high fat food one serving being 10g or 16% of your daily allowance. Remember that is approximately only 15 chips. And zero cholesterol. That sounds okay, but remember we talked about labelling laws and if the serving size is so low there is a minimum amount that can be claimed as zero. Legal way to say if the serving size is unrealistically low, some unhealthy nutrition values can be claimed low or even zero. You can bet if you eat 75 potato chips you are getting some amount of cholesterol.
In our last posting #129 we went over how to cook , prepare, and include chicken in a healthy diet. We now need to discuss how unhealthy most fried and fast food chicken is to your health. We will use one serving of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) crispy for nutrition values? As good as it may taste, it is probably just as bad for your heart health. Normal fast food fried chicken is definitely not something the heart patient should be eating. A KFC chicken breast is 510 calories, a whopping 33g of fat, 110mg of cholesterol and 1010mg of sodium. Thighs are 340 calories, 24g of fat, 80mg of cholesterol and 780mg of sodium.
Now this is the first time we have reviewed this much information on foods we know we should not eat. All of the above foods were all part of my normal diet four years ago. I tell you this so new readers will understand I am not picking on anyone, only pointing out the many bad food habits that a heart patient must change.
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