Today for breakfast I made a sort of salmon cake Benedict.Half a whole wheat hamburger bun + a salmon cake + a poached egg the hollandaise sauce. I recently learned how to make real hollandaise sauce, but will not be whipping that up for a quick breakfast anytime soon.I can still remember the deep ache in my right bicep from endless whisking.Also, of course, salmon cake Benedict becomes an indulgence when you add the creamy sauce.Without it, its a perfectly hearty and healthful way to start the day. Are you a bit surprised that a healthy breakfast can be more than bran cereal?

“Eat a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet” has been the mantra for healthful eating for decades, says the Harvard School of Public Health, but as a nation it hasn’t helped us control weight or become healthier.Weve known for a while now that what really matters is the type of fat in the diet and for most people, the mix of fats in the diet influences cholesterol in the bloodstream far more than cholesterol in food does.

Fish is the poster child for good fat, and that is why The American Heart Association recommends eating fish (particularly fatty fish) at least two times (two servings) a week. Yep, they specifically say, go for a fatty food!

And Harvard calls concern about the small amount of cholesterol in seafood something of a red herring. They explain that myth got started when the discovery half a century ago that high blood cholesterol levels were strongly associated with an increased risk for heart disease triggered numerous warnings to avoid foods that contain cholesterol, especially eggs, liver, shrimp, and lobster.But then studies showed that eating foods like shrimp and lobster doesn’t raise LDL [bad] cholesterol. Also, most people make more cholesterol than they absorb from their food.