Originally Posted by Bill-n-Brillo (Post 445336)

Worked at a McDonald's for a few years when I was a kid. I remember cooking french fries.............in LARD! :faint: Peeled, cut, washed, blanched, then did the final cooking shot in the deep fryer to finish them - made from scratch right in the store!

It's a wonder people's arteries didn't clog up before they got to the parking lot!!!
Bill :)

Originally Posted by Bill-n-Brillo (Post 445336)

Worked at a McDonald's for a few years when I was a kid. I remember cooking french fries.............in LARD! :faint: Peeled, cut, washed, blanched, then did the final cooking shot in the deep fryer to finish them - made from scratch right in the store!

It's a wonder people's arteries didn't clog up before they got to the parking lot!!!

Bill :)

Originally Posted by senior citizen (Post 453507)

Olive oil is indeed the very best for heart health and overall health.
All of my Italian ancestors lived to ripe old ages up to 95 and such, while still being mobile and mentally o.k.

Olive oil and red wine vinegar were the topping for the daily romaine lettuce salad. No bottled dressings like today. Have you ever read the ingredients?
Guar Gum, etc., etc.


They also drank "home made" red wine every day. No sulfites for preservatives. I guess they drank it fast enough.


Even today, everything in moderation. I only use olive oil.

Originally Posted by senior citizen (Post 453566)

I know. Even though I joked that we should all get a case, red wine does give me a headache, like another poster. I believe it's because it's dilating the blood vessels.

When our kids went to Spain as foreign exchange students during their high school years.........they returned saying all the teens drank small shot glasses of red wine like we would drink water. It was common practice.
Probably the same with the Italians.

I still remember my great uncle Vito would would bring the jugs of red wine which he processed himself.................my mom, who was NOT Italian would tease that he had stomped the grapes with his bare feet. Who knows?
He kept my grandmother supplied, that's for sure. They did drink a lot of wine..........but again, they were a jolly crowd. Now, everyone is on some type of anxiety drug.

Originally Posted by 2BNTV (Post 453532)

This is what I took from the article:

"A well-balanced diet, with plenty of fruit and veg and only a small amount of high fat foods, is best for a healthy heart.”

I prefer my foods to be broiled and rarely eat anything that is fried. I watch for the fat content of a food and how it may be prepared as a in control diabetic.

Everyone has to do what is best for them to ensure their health.

Originally Posted by senior citizen (Post 453634)

Did he also grow his own grapes? Or have them delivered by the bushel?

They were all self sufficient. My uncle provided the wine for a large extended family. He was always welcomed with enthusiasm.

Some of my grandparents family relocated from New York City to Connecticut back in the 1920's, 1930's and 1940's. Hartford and West Hartford.

Others went to upstate New York....Utica, Syracuse, etc. and Ottawa Canada

Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 453632)

I agree. Your high lighted statement says it all.


But you Italians don't have the market cornered on longevity. My German Brewmaster dad lived to be 92 and was cutting the grass with a push mower a couple of weeks before he exited this world. It pays to have genes for longevity. To your good health everyone...

Originally Posted by senior citizen (Post 453689)

A classic immigrant story. Go to ellisisland.org and you might find the ship that they came on. You will be able to read the original ship's manifest.
Or, go to ancestry.com and you can type in your family surnames to find your long lost relatives or the other branches of the family.

I started out ten years ago with only my grandparents and the town they came from, plus their parents, which thankfully someone had thought to write down...(my great grandparents on my father's side). I now have over 11,000 souls in my family tree........some of which are my mom's side and other people who married into our family and my husband's family, etc., etc.
It grows even without trying.........and people share their branches with you.

The Ukrainian side is more difficult to trace due to the Cyrillic alphabet but my grandmother's church was very helpful in translating after photocopying the records of births, baptisms, deaths, etc., etc. from early 1900's here....and it did list their village in Austrian Hungarian Empire of Franz Josef.

NOW THE ITALIANS were the easiest to trace......as so many of the microfllms are available and many other "searching cousins" who can read or decipher the Italian language were generous enough to help out........people are very helpful when searching for the same family lines...........NOT TO MENTION NAPOLEON. Napoleon was a stickler for record keeping.......so whenever a couple in Italy wanted to get married, they had to go to the town square or town hall and declare their intent and sign a paper with all their people who came before..........so the marriage records, morte (death records) and birth records have a wealth of information GOING BACKWARDS.

Originally Posted by CarGuys (Post 453539)

Please ! Does anyone know where I can get a Good Tasting Red Wine that does not have those Sulfites in the product. My Dr's want me to enjoy a glass however the sulfites give me a headache and stuff me up.

No Jokes Angie- Swim and Gracie- LOL

Herv

Originally Posted by RichieLion (Post 445331)

I'm posting this link because of a back and forth I had with Villages PL on healthy living and healthy food which is of great concern to Villages PL.

It's interesting how many of our commonly held beliefs about some food's nutritional value, or it's effect to our health have changed over the years.

I don't know if the indications that it is the type of oil used and not the frying of food itself that is the determining factor to it's health safety, but it's something to think about.

Fried food heart risk 'a myth' - Telegraph

Originally Posted by Graytop (Post 454074)

I'm trusting less and less, (based on experience), all of these supposed scientific studies that tell us what foods are good and bad for us. That's just my personal view of it...

Whatever happened to preparing our food,...thanking God for it and trusting Him to bless it, then we eat.....I know, not intelligent enough....whatever.

An interesting question for me is, What is the motivation behind the study,...who is funding the study.

Originally Posted by RichieLion (Post 454110)

The motivation? How about just plain old curiosity and thirst for knowledge. Exploding myths is a time honored scientific pursuit.

If "popular wisdom" on a subject is flawed, wouldn't you want to know about it?

Originally Posted by Graytop (Post 454128)

Yes, exactly, and if it's true science, the results should be consistent if given the same set of variables each time.

Are we supposed to just accept all these studies as truth just because they're printed in a newspaper or on TV?

Originally Posted by mikeod (Post 454265)

Good points. Early in my training, it was emphasized that the results of a well-designed and executed study should be able to be duplicated by a follow-up study similarly designed and run. Unless the results of study were confirmed by subsequent studies, the results of the first study were simply points of interest needing to be confirmed or refuted by subsequent studies. And the source of funding for a study also should be investigated before taking the results to heart. Remember the studies done by the tobacco companies stating that smoking isn't related to the onset of lung cancer.

Unfortunately, there are untold numbers of news stories that take these unconfirmed results and trumpet them as factual. This leads to confusion and, sometimes worse, action taken that may be counterproductive or dangerous.