One High-Saturated Fat Meal Can Be Bad

By JOE MILICIA
Associated Press Writer

CLEVELAND (AP) -- Eating just one meal high in saturated fat - in this case, carrot cake and a milkshake - can quickly prevent "good" cholesterol from protecting the body against clogged arteries, a small study shows.

The results of the research weren't a surprise to the experts, but they say the findings reaffirm something that more people need to understand:

"What we put into our mouth makes a big difference in terms of our health," said Dr. Charles McCauley, a cardiologist with Marshfield Clinic in Wisconsin, who reviewed the research but wasn't involved with the study. "We really have to be very careful as to how our food is processed and what kind of ingredients we use."

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Any unhealthy lifestyle is a chronic degenerative condition. Fast food is bad because its easy to pick on, but go grocery shopping and start reading the labels to learn how bad ANY processed/prepped food is bad for you.

A good example is that a 355 ml can of soda EQUALS the amount of sugar in many fruit juices. In my opinion, overdosing on sugar is worse than a high fat diet and probably the biggest (no pun intended) factor to North American obesity.