Heart Attack Support Group
Heart attack is a serious, sudden heart condition usually characterized by varying degrees of chest pain or discomfort, weakness, sweating, nausea, vomiting, and arrhythmias, sometimes causing loss of consciousness. It occurs when the blood supply to a part of the heart is interrupted, causing death and scarring of the local heart tissue.
New research shows:
"Choosing a low-fat dressing for your salad might help you keep your weight down because it has fewer calories but you could lose some other health benefits, a study shows.
It found higher-fat dressings help the body absorb more carotenoids, compounds in vegetables linked with a reduced risk of illnesses including cancer and heart disease.
Canola oil and olive-oil based dressings promoted the same carotenoid absorption at three grams of fat, as they did at 20 grams - suggesting this would be a good choice of dressing for people watching their weight but wanting to remain healthy"
In other words - make your own! I read that, although olive-oil is not heart healthy in itself, it helps with the absorbsion of nutrients from vegetables and it's the nutrients that maintain a healthy endothelium (the layer of cells that coats and lines our blood vessels, etc). Thank God! I use loads of it, especially on salads!
"Choosing a low-fat dressing for your salad might help you keep your weight down because it has fewer calories but you could lose some other health benefits, a study shows.
It found higher-fat dressings help the body absorb more carotenoids, compounds in vegetables linked with a reduced risk of illnesses including cancer and heart disease.
Canola oil and olive-oil based dressings promoted the same carotenoid absorption at three grams of fat, as they did at 20 grams - suggesting this would be a good choice of dressing for people watching their weight but wanting to remain healthy"
In other words - make your own! I read that, although olive-oil is not heart healthy in itself, it helps with the absorbsion of nutrients from vegetables and it's the nutrients that maintain a healthy endothelium (the layer of cells that coats and lines our blood vessels, etc). Thank God! I use loads of it, especially on salads!
I also use either oil-based dressings, like you, or yogurt based ones (when I want a creamier dressing). The yogurt based dressings for dipping help me eat raw cut up raw veggies at dinner time, when I don't feel like making a salad.
My Mom stayed over a couple of months ago, and she picked up fat-free dressing for our salad. I threw it away a couple of weeks after she left, when I realized I'd never eat it.