Are you ready for some fooooootballll???
Are you also ready for some unhealthy fooooood??
Chances are that you are. We just said “are” five times including that one in quotes in four sentences. Unbeatable!
Anyway, you’re probably going to eat lots of food on sunday, because it’s being estimated that 48 million people will order take-out — mostly pizza and other unhealthy shizz.
The good news is that according to a new report, fried food doesn’t necessarily seal your fate to heart disease or an early grave!
“Researchers for the study, which was conducted by the Autonomous University of Madrid, spent 11 years monitoring the health of 41,000 people between the ages of 29 and 69. Participants were divided into groups based on how much fried food they ate, with those in the lowest consumption group taking in about 1.6 ounces every day and those in the highest eating 8.8. When the researchers tallied up the number of deaths and “heart-related events” over the years, they found no correlation with their subjects’ diets.”
Woo! Get us some french fries!!
Wait. Just wait.
The caveat here is that the study was in Spain, and fried food tends to be friend in olive and sunflower oil and consumed with a Mediterranean diet. Which means healthier and less “make it a large.” And we aren’t talking fast food, either.
So unless you’re doing that AND still getting exercise — skip the fried for now!
Have fun on Sunday!
[Image via AP Images.]