Fried Food Heart Risk a Myth says new study
 

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

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 :)

And frying the McDonalds french fries in lard is why they were delicious and perfect texture back then in the 1960's, and ever since they quit using it, the fries have been terrible. They turn hard and tough if you don't eat them within 3 minutes of being out of the fryer.

The study cited in the article above is about Spain and their use of olive and sunflower oils. It didn't talk about what particular foods they fried versus the foods fried by Britons or other nationalities. Maybe the Spaniards were frying mostly fish and seafood while the Britons were frying mostly red meat. It also didn't mention the wines Spaniards drink regularly with meals, and I think I've read that red wine especially helps against clogged arteries.

You must be a few years older than me (59) I started working there at 16 and about a week after I started there they stopped making the fries in house and we received them frozen in boxes

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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.

Question
 

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

My family was raised drinking wine and had a great tolerance for ti.

They seem to drink it like it was grape juice with no alcohol content in it.

Always in moderation. A couple of glasses like they did would have had me flying high. :)

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I agree they enjoyed their wine and drank it like water.

My fathers homemade wine seemed to have the alcohol content of rocket fuel. :)

Their wine was their anti-anxiety drug as they weren't even aware there was such a medication.

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...

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Delivered by the bushel as we were city slickers. My father supplied the wine for family gatherings and it was appreciated.

My father supervised the wine making, as myself and my brother provided the manual labor. Of course, he first on line to test if it was ready. :) Ahhhh, the old wine grape grinding and pressing machine brings back memories.

My Italian grandfather landed in Youngstown, Ohio and then migrated to Yonkers, New York. he then sent for my grandmother who was still in Italy.

My fathers side, (Portugese), landed in Bedford MA. My father ran away to Newark, N.J. but my grandfather found him and moved the rest of the family. He then ran away to Yonkers, N.Y. and my grandfather found him again. So, he gave up running away.

Born and raised in Yonkers, N.Y., as the rest of the family. My aunt and uncles who were born in Italy and Portugal came over on the boat. That was the story the way I heard it.