{"id":1164,"date":"2019-07-18T19:12:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T19:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karlapatin.com\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2020-08-30T05:42:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T05:42:36","slug":"is-chicken-skin-bad-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karlapatin.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/18\/is-chicken-skin-bad-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Chicken Skin Bad For You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en\">C<\/span><span lang=\"en\">hicken skin is fattening, so, whether or not you are watching your weight, you should not eat too much of it. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en\">But is it bad for you? Well, the answer is no.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en\">For many years doctors have cautioned us against eating the skin of the chicken, yet current studies show, <\/span><span lang=\"en\">the <\/span><span lang=\"en\">skin <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">provides half of your daily requirement of selenium, which is an essential mineral that wards off cancer.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> It also <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">adds a nice bit of flavor <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">to your meal<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">. Yes, there are extra calories found in eating the skin, but only around 26. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">So, do your own research but based on what we&#8217;ve found, I&#8217;d say keep the skin and enjoy juicier chicken. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Just remember, as with any food it should be eating in moderation, as chicken does contain <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Merriweather, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Omega-6, which is unsaturated fat that increases inflammation in the body.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Note: bread, fish, and eggs are other main food sources of selenium.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicken skin is fattening, so, whether or not you are watching your weight, you should not eat too much of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[86,87,88,89,90,91,92,38,46,95,96,97,98,94,93],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homesteading","tag-bland-chicken","tag-boneless","tag-cancer","tag-chicken-breast","tag-chicken-skin","tag-fight-cancer","tag-flavor","tag-karla-patin","tag-karlapatin","tag-more-flavor","tag-selenium","tag-skin","tag-skinless-chicken-breast","tag-whoz-talking","tag-whoztalking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlapatin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlapatin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlapatin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlapatin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlapatin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karlapatin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/karlapatin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlapatin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlapatin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlapatin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlapatin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}