Good Food Begets Good Health, Bad Food Just The Opposite
The Importance of Grass-Fed Meats and Wild-Caught Fish
While most people will benefit from high-quality animal protein, it is particularly important for athletes and active people. As a general rule, keeping out protein intake to one-half gram of protein per pound of lean body mass to avoid the risks associated with excessive protein consumption. Athletes and pregnant women typically need about 25% more.
The Big Q: What is high quality animal protein?
The Big A: a Key factor that has a huge bearing on the quality is whether or not the animal was raised on pasture, opposed to a confined animal feeding operation (CAFO). So look for organic grass-fed and finished beef, and organic pasture-raised, aka free-range pastured chicken.
These animals eat a natural wholesome diet that optimizes the nutritional composition of the meat, unlike CAFO animals that are fed an unnatural diet of glyphosate-contaminated GE Corn and Soymeal, along with growth promoting drugs, hormones, and/or antibiotics. Besides destroying our gut flora, both glyphosate and antibiotics promote antibiotic-resistant diseases that now kill about 23,000 Americans each year.
When it comes to fish, another high quality protein source, the considerations are:
1. Wild-caught and not farm-raised, as aqua farms are associated with the same health and environmental problems as land-based CAFOs, and,
2. Mercury contamination is a serious concern when it comes to fish, so look for fish high in healthy fats and low in Mercury. Wild-caught Alaskan salmon and sockeye salmon are super, as do smaller fatty fish such as sardines, anchovies and herring.
Fish is an important source of healthy fats like Omega-3, which many are deficient in. This potent antioxidant also has performance-boosting properties, and help reduce lactic acid in muscle tissue, which is an added benefit for athletes.
Avoiding Processed Foods Will Let You Sidestep Many Health Hazards
The food industry has altered the Western diet, the changes directly affect our weight and overall health. A large part of the problem is the processes used to manufacture the food, this processing destroys valuable nutrients. It removes much of the food’s original flavor, and to address this synthetic nutrients, flavors, colors, and other additives are added back in.
It is very important to realize that when we consume pasteurized and irradiated foods, we are eating a sterile diet that will likely alter our gut flora, allowing potentially pathogenic microorganisms to take over. This often has wide-ranging health consequences.
Many of these added chemicals wreak metabolic havoc. Our bodies do not quite know what to do with them.
Another factor that makes processed foods the antithesis of a healthy diet is the excessive use of refined sugar and/or processed fructose from Corn. Virtually all processed foods contain added sugar, and that includes commercial infant formula and baby food.
A Y 2009 survey of more than 100 foods for babies and toddlers found examples that contained as much as 29% sugar. Others contained trans fat, which has been linked to heart disease. Most processed foods are also loaded with GMOs and glyphosate which can decimate our gut bacteria and the health of the 2nd brain.
Buying good cook books and cooking from scratch using whole, organic ingredients is one of the best investments consumers can make. And. if we do not have good health, little else matters.
Remember, a diet of processed foods sets the stage for obesity and a number of chronic health issues. In fact, many of the top diseases plaguing United States consumers are diet-related, including heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.
The answer to our health problems are not pills, but in what we eat and drink daily.
Eat healthy, Be healthy.
Have a terrific weekend.
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Paul Ebeling
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