Why am I addicted to hamburgers? Is there anything that will clean my arteries?

[Staximus]

I'm fat and would eat hamburgers everyday if I could. I've never had a drug or drinking problem, just an eating problem. Is there anything that will keep my arteries clean so I can finally go on my fat bastard hamburgers only diet?

[zeitgeist057]

If you could manage a ketogenic diet, then it would reduce the impact of the fat on your system, since your body would be metabolizing the fat for energy due to lack of available carbohydrates.

The first thing to be impacted would be your burger: no more buns. No more ketchup or sweet sauces, or certain specialty burgers like the Hawaiian with pineapple slices and teriyaki glaze. No more fries.

portobello buns are okay

Just pure meat, and certain low/no sugar vegetables, fruits, and other toppings, like avocado, bacon, cheeses, shrimp, egg, mustard, lettuce, onion, garlic, mushroom, etc.
Speaking of toppings, in general you can improve the healthy level of your burger slightly by increasing toppings like the ones above (not so much with the cheese and bacon, but with the others).

The change doesn't stop there. You would also need to nearly eliminate sugar from other sources in order for your body to achieve and maintain ketosis.

Burger salads (lightly dressed, with no dressing or just mustard) would be a good option as well. I and my brothers have done ketogenic diet and on a typical day eat somewhere between 3-6 lbs of steak, ground beef, or other animal protein when bulking up.

If you're not ready for such a drastic diet change, then I would suggest limiting the burgers to 2-3/week, but still cut the bun out, that shit is bad for you regardless. Fries should also be cut or limited, they offer next to nothing in terms of nutrition. As a chef, I see them simply as a carbohydrate based transport for oil and salt, which is why people love them so much. Who doesn't' want fat soaked, salty sugar sticks?

[Staximus]

You think the keto diet will keep the cholesterol grum sticking to my arteries? I'm not too concerned with weight loss, I can lose weight pretty easy.

[zeitgeist057]

I'm not that informed, but a quick search reveals that most research shows lowering of LDL (bad) and increased HDL (good) cholesterol on a keto diet.

www.everydayhealth.com/.../
www.verywellhealth.com/keto-diet-and-cholesterol-5191066
www.healthline.com/.../will-a-keto-diet-affect-my-already-high-cholesterol
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19641727/

[jshm2]

Drink more water, fat ass.

[Staximus]

I'm not so fat that I can't kick your sorry ass, smart guy. Water doesn't clean your arteries.

[janerobinson]

The best way to keep your arteries ‘clean’ is by doing exercise. Specifically exercises that increases your heart rate (this will help increase the blood flow pumped through your arteries in turn helping to prevent conditions like atherosclerosis/build up of plaque in coronary arteries)

[jennifer_bloom]

You can replace your hamburgers with tofu burgers and then starve from boredom.

[Staximus]

That would be a living hell, I'll pass on the tofu burgers

[Anonymous]

Not sure. But i guess you can try infused water (lemon + mint) at least this helps for gut health and stuff