Burgers healthy for your heart? Yeah right.

Canadians need to be smarter about their food choices and the effects they have on health.  That’s why it is particularly frustrating when an organization like the Heart and Stroke Foundation puts out a program like “Health Check”.

The Health Check program is intended to make it easier for you to make healthy food choices that will benefit your cardiovascular health.  Instead of focusing on cooking with nutrient-dense whole foods, the program’s logo will appear on menu items in restaurants such as Boston Pizza, Tim Horton’s, Subway, and even McDonald’s!  You don’t have to be a doctor to know that you don’t go to eat at McDonald’s to benefit your heart health.

How can this be possible?  Well, all it takes is a lot of money from these corporation to loosen up the criteria for the amount of sodium and other junk allowed for food items to be considered “heart healthy”.  It’s disgusting.  When you have an organization that collects donations from Canadians on the premise that they are working to find cures for cardiovascular disease and then they turn around promote the kind of fast-food lifestyle that is killing millions of people, something is very wrong.

All I can say is money talks but sometimes you have to use your common sense to protect yourself from being misled.