Why eat meat but not often....

Today's Post:  Tuesday, 5-31-2016

As you likely have read, people who eat ONLY whole grains have tested to be healthier in several ways than people who eat refined grain foods.

And, while some people have serious problems with any gluten, the majority of people do not, except for hybrid, conventionally grown, wheat --particularly for grains like barley.

Meanwhile, factory farmed animals are fed grains that have been sprayed with herbicides and pesticides which are then bioconcentrated in their fat.

Worse, they are raised in overcrowded, filthy conditions.  So they are still raised with routine antibiotics.  That causes the people who eat them to eat these bacteria, some of which are resistant to antibiotics, and antibiotics each of which causes the same fattening effects in the people who eat them that they do in the animals.

They are also fed grains -- which causes their fat to have 10 to 20 times too much pro-inflammatory antibiotics.  That helps cause osteoarthritis, heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease and helps cause cancers.  (See the book, Anti-Cancer for details.)

Lastly, people who eat lots of vegetables other than potatoes and eat pieces of fruit daily or more have far less heart disease and strokes and die less often from any and all causes.

So, why not be a vegan vegetarian eating whole grains and eat no meat?

Clearly not eating meat and protein foods from factory farmed animals has some real problems that vegans avoid.

And, vegans who eat lots of vegetables other than potatoes and eat pieces of fruit daily have some real benefits.

But, vegans who eat wheat or lots of other whole grains for protein have some quite serious problems even if they are whole grains.

Today’s hybrid wheat causes gluten problems for people who otherwise might have escaped them.

And all grains with the possible exception of barley have problems due to causing blood sugar spikes and insulin resistance and high triglycerides.

You don’t feel those harmful effects directly or soon; but research is now showing that those problems reliably cause elevated blood sugar, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, high LDL & low HDL and the resulting heart disease.

And, people who eat grains also have the same problems factory fed farm animals do. 

If the grains are not organic, the grains they eat have been sprayed with herbicides and pesticides which are then bioconcentrated in their fat.

They also eat excessive omega 6 oils which causes their fat to have 10 to 20 times too much pro-inflammatory antibiotics.  That helps cause osteoarthritis, heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease and helps cause cancers.  (See the book, Anti-Cancer for details.)

But if both protein foods from factory farmed animals AND grains are very poor choices as protein foods, what can people eat instead?

Meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy products from animals fed only their natural foods has solved this problem for humans for over 100,000 years.  Weston Price and others have found that some of the nutrients eating in that way gives people such as vitamin K2, B12, and other nutrients are essential for strong bones and the best health.

So has wild caught fish and seafood. So have raw tree nuts.

Lastly, many peoples have done well eating beans and lentils. And, organic vegetables other than potatoes are quite good sources of protein per calorie.

That means that meat from animals fed only their natural foods can be a health supporting choice to eat.

But why then eat more of the other foods we just listed and only eat meat sometimes or even very rarely?

There are three reasons.

1.  Meat is high in the amount of water and energy and land needed to support it.  All of those are overused and there are reasons why reversing that trend is important to support. Eating meat much less often helps use less of those resources.

2.  Many of the other choices we just listed work better for health.  So eating meat less often to make room for eating more of  those foods makes sense.

a)  For building muscle or keeping bone and muscle as you get older or both, whey from grass fed cows has been shown to be the best protein source in a number of ways.  It builds muscle best and avoids losing muscle best.

b)  Wild caught fish and sustainable, unpolluted seafood, are much higher the omega 3 oils, particularly DHA, that help grow new nerves and brain cells, lower chronic inflammation, AND lower triglycerides and boost HDL to protect your heart.

They provide the beneficial, almost mirror image, reverse of the harmful effects of eating grains!

c)  The oils in tree nuts for those not allergic and the oils of avocados and olives provide a way to get safe oils that avoid both the potential problems of animal fat and the harm of oils from grain.

AND, the nutrients and protein and micronutrients in tree nuts for those not allergic; and the nutrients and micronutrients in avocados and extra virgin olive oil also support health.

Stopping grain oils and fats from factory fed animals and eating more nuts and avocados and extra virgin olive oil supports health so well, dramatic improvements in health and heart health have shown up in just a few weeks in recent research.

d)  Whey and eggs and foods like cheese and whole milk from animals fed only grass or their natural diet are MUCH faster to fix each day than cooking meat from animals only fed grass or organic sprouts.  Unless you don’t work or can afford a chef, that’s a huge consideration.

Because real naturally fed meat is quite lean, the best way to fix it is to pretreat it with a mechanical tenderizer and cook it in a slow cooker too.  (Meat pretreated with a Jaccard or Butchers Kitchen needle tenderizer is as tender as if it was marbled with fat from stuffing the animal grains and penning it up.)  But the extra preparation and cooking time is a consideration that suggests doing it less often.

e)  Meat is only a health OK choice if it is from animals that are humanely treated and ONLY fed grass or organic sprouts!

Guess what?  That costs way more than factory farmed meat.

So, it’s much easier and more affordable to eat meat once or twice a month to buy that kind of properly raised and processed meat!