EVERY HOT DOG TAKES 35 MINUTES OFF YOUR LIFE

Researchers from the University of Michigan School of Public Health have come up with a nutritional index offering guidelines to help Americans achieve healthier and more environmentally stable diets. The index ranks foods by minutes gained or lost from your life per serving. In other words, eat “this” and you’ll die “this much sooner.” They looked at over 5,000 foods in the American diet.
– Processed meats and sugary drinks take the most time off your life span.
– Eating one 85-gram serving of chicken wings translated to 3.3 minutes of life lost, owing to sodium and harmful trans fatty acids.
– A beef hot dog on a bun means 36 minutes of life lost.
– Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are associated with an increase of 33 minutes of life.
– Foods like salted peanuts, baked salmon and rice with beans were also associated with gains of between 10 and 15 minutes.
The study is published in the journal Nature.
* Oscar Mayer is a serial killer!
* Not super great news for Joey Chestnut (the perennial hot-dog-eating contest winner).
* If you smother your hot dog with onions and relish, does that counter-balance the death minutes?
* Sugary drinks bad, jelly good? Isn’t jelly just a sugary drink with most of the water missing?
* What if you ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich right after eating a hot dog, does that even things out? I love these studies that make no sense.
* You know which of the 5,000 foods will kill you? All of them, eventually. Or, none of them, sooner.