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    Default Cholesterol Neutral or Instant Heart Attack?

    Fry smoked streaky bacon until crisp (don't discard the fat.....), add Heinz beans (have to be Heinz) to the pan to heat the beans.
    Eaten with crusty white bread & butter.

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    Sounds good. Shouldn't do too much damage as long as you only eat it no more than about once a week.

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    Not sure if you're seriously asking if this is unhealthy or not, but I'd be most worried about the sugar content of the beans. It's been my experience that pretty much everything is loaded with the stuff. Even things that aren't intended to be sweet are packed with it because of the neurological effect it has which makes you then associate the food with positive feelings and buy it again.

    I'm a vegetarian, so I've made a decision not to eat cholesterol, and I believe it was the right decision, but that tends to become a bit of an inflammatory conversation so I'll just let that one lie...

    I did, however, once enjoy the hell out of some bacon, but that was American bacon... but that's another inflammatory conversation altogether

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    Better for you to be happy than worry about a little bacon and beans.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Luke Maddux View Post
    Not sure if you're seriously asking if this is unhealthy or not, but I'd be most worried about the sugar content of the beans. It's been my experience that pretty much everything is loaded with the stuff. Even things that aren't intended to be sweet are packed with it because of the neurological effect it has which makes you then associate the food with positive feelings and buy it again.
    As a diabetic I agree about the sugar content of the beans. Not just beans but just about anything in a tomato sauce that comes in a can or bottle. Low salt tomato paste is loaded up with sugar presumably because of some "focus group report". But why buy canned beans to start with - it's dead easy to make your own especially when tomatoes are cheap and you can increase the tomato flavour by using more of them. I makes my own version using dried kidney beans and chick peas and moroccan spices. They last for many days (if I don't east them all) in the fridge and make canned BB seem very ordinary

    I don't know why they are called "baked" beans - I seriously doubt they are baked. Despite the sugar I do have the canned versions occasionally when we go camping.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Old-Biker-UK View Post
    Fry smoked streaky bacon until crisp (don't discard the fat.....), add Heinz beans (have to be Heinz) to the pan to heat the beans.
    Eaten with crusty white bread & butter.
    I'd rather go hungry than eat canned baked beans so I can't help you much
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    One of my hobby horses is the subject of fat: In particular low fat products. Fat free products do not make you lose weight or prevent you gaining weight. Sugar free products do this. Fat free just means you pay (possibly more) for something that has much of the goodness removed and may not taste as nice for the final insult. Interestingly women seem to particularly believe that fat free will help their weight loss agenda. The irony here is that it was a member of the fair sex ( ) who alerted me to this fallacy.

    However, if you have cholesterol issues you should monitor your fat intake.

    Just back on the HJ Heinz subject and the catch phrase "Beans Meanz Heinz" it was not always the case. This was the most interesting product to emerge from the Heinz family stable:

    The Rust Heinz 1938 Phantom Corsair:
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    Rust Heinz unfortunately died with only the prototype having been made. It was based on a Cord chassis and used, I think, the same Lycoming V8 engine. It was quite futuristic for the day and still looks like something that Batman would own. The driver sat with passengers on either side of him and four across the front seat (two in the back).

    It was not considered fattening or generally bad for your health: Unless you confronted a Kenworth head on.

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    It's remarkable how little progress has been made in understanding the causes of hyperglycemia/T2D and hyperlipidemia. The correlation or association with systemic inflammatory mediator traffic is now well established and accepted but the "why?" is yet unanswered.
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    More importantly, and getting back to the original poster’s important contribution (thanks, Mark - i love Heinz BB too) here is some valuable dietary information I came across in the UK recently:

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    Now that is my kind of dietary information

    BTW some of my best friends are Vegies, but they do get a bit twitchy when I point out that most us carnivores kill and cook our food before we eat it, whereas anyone with access to a lab with micro-propagators could have that mixed salad up and about again.

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    I would be unconcerned with fat.

    Its sugar that's the bio-toxin. I'm convinced it's a cancer causing ageing deadly poison.

    i despise the way every product has added sugars.

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    I agree with you and the key there is "added" sugars. I am fortunate in that I don't have to be wary of sugar for weight reasons (although I concede I should be mindful for more insidious health reasons, something which SWMBO constantly reminds me of and which causes me to switch off ) so I am not really familiar with the different types of sugars. My take is that if they come naturally (citrus fruit as an example) they are probably not too horrible.

    Chocolate is another one that springs to mind .



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    Quote Originally Posted by woodPixel View Post
    I would be unconcerned with fat.

    Its sugar that's the bio-toxin. I'm convinced it's a cancer causing ageing deadly poison.

    i despise the way every product has added sugars.
    It's hard to tell. Sugar consumption wasn't huge 120 years ago, and the average age of death was so much lower that it's difficult to normalize cancer and heart disease when flu, infections, etc, killed so many people off at an early age:
    https://io9.gizmodo.com/5920871/how-...w-we-die-today

    I'm of the same thought, though, that sugar really isn't that beneficial - probably not even if you are eating a bunch of fruit, it still is inflammatory, still tickles dopamine unnecessarily, etc.

    But the fanatics that are out there on all corners - some telling you to eat only sugar and no fat, some telling you to eat only fat and no sugar - there's no historical basis that heart disease and cancer weren't prevalent in any aged population. And now that the population is so aged, it's hard to compare.

    What's true these days is that we want perfect safety and long life for all, so we react a lot differently to the fact that we all will due, and some of us early.

    In the future, I think we'll find out what causes each of us strife by genetic testing, and it won't be sugar for all, and it won't be fat for all (e.g., someone from norway may become unhealthy with different things than someone from central africa).

    there was a recent blow-up in the media here because Donald Trump has early coronary artery disease based on his calcium score. However, they failed to mention that despite his horrible eating habits, his calcium score is lower than the average male aged 73 (to some extent, there's a huge age-related component). I heard an unbiased doctor who was interpreting the results say (after being questioned about how Donald Trump can get away with no exercise and eating garbage all the time, and being overweight), and the doctor's response was "you'd kill to have his genes. More than running 25 miles a week, eating a vegetable diet, or anything else...you'd trade all of that if you could have his genes, because they're the biggest factor in why he's still healthy despite not being fit".

    Fitness and health are two different things, of course.

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