What s the best way to lose weight fast and remain healthy?
There has been much hysteria pro and con the Atkins type weight loss regime, with the low cal/lo fat and portion control camp screaming that red meat and eggs are dangerous.
In a recent weight loss study Atkins folks sponsored, plant based diet supporters gleefully point out that participants were being apparently counseled “to choose vegetarian sources of fat and protein. ’
Kathy Freston, a Dean Ornish low fat, calorie counting anti meat fan girl, insists that there s a growing shift toward healthy, plant based diets, especially among people looking to lose weight and keep it off. And a shift away from meat, animal fats and eggs, she writes.
However, low carb, meat and blubber enthusiasts show proof of healthy weight loss and of keeping it off. Like me. Or Dr. Heidi and her ER clientele.
What should you believe?
Both. Steak (all red meats and poultry) and eggs are like cholesterol: There s good and there s bad. You need to know which is good and which is bad.
Bad Meat
Most meat in U.S. supermarkets and restaurants come from confined and un pastured cows who are often sick. Poky s animal hospital (described in Pollan s Omnivore s Dilemma) is one of many big animal hospitals that treats feedlot cattle from industrial feedlots. Most of the animals health problems, Pollan reports, are directly or indirectly related to what they re fed.
The cows are force fed corn and soy which they can t digest. They re made to eat forage, and we re making them eat grain, says Dr. Metzin who treats them. p. 77, Omnivore s Dilemma)
Virtually all feedlot cattle, according to animal scientists, are sick because they cannot digest grain.
The sick animals are then shot full of antibiotics so they live a little longer so as to get a bit fatter before they re slaughtered. Happy Sunday cookout.
So yes, the Dean Ornishes and Kathy Frestons are right. Eating bad meats and fats from from such animals can NOT be good for you. Avoid eating bad meats and fats.
Good Meat
Grass fed animals. Grass fed animals are pastured. [NOT pasteurized but pastured.] This, my omnivore friends, you CAN eat. I do.
Grass fed animals are allowed to forage and graze in pastures on grass and other stuff on the grounds. Eating what they eat naturally. They re not shot full of antibiotics because they re not sick.
Good meat shopping tip: When shopping for meat, ASK the meat person: Do you have 100 grass fed beef (or pastured chicken)? If not, find a local farmer. They ll have grass fed beef and poultry. Google local farmers in YOUR CITY or check for local farmers online at Local Harvest or the Weston A Price Foundation.
Until you find a farmer, at least get meats that have not been fed antibiotics and hormones
Bad eggs
Same story. Don t eat the eggs from chickens that are crammed together in spaces no bigger than an 8 and 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper, for their entire life. Don t eat those that are fed bio engineered grain. Don t eat those kept awake with lights blazing into their cages 24/7 so they can lay as many eggs as possible before they re turned into soup. Those eggs can not be good for you. They re available in most restaurants and supermarkets.
Good eggs
Eat eggs from pastured chickens they re the ones that go OUTSIDE and scratch around on the ground at the farm, eating grass, worms and such that they are designed to eat. NOTE: These eggs are also a surprise source of Vitamin D. Regular eggs do not have naturally occurring Vitamin D. See one minute Video: Surprise source of Vitamin D.
Good eggs shopping tip: Contact your local farmer for pastured chickens and eggs from pastured chickens. Organic is not enough here (not if you want that extra Vitamin D benefit, says Dr. Heidi here). See sources above.
Bottom line: Find pastured grass fed animals. Eat those. They re the good meat and animal fats. They have the same kind of GOOD fats that ocean fish have, they have more minerals and vitamins and they re not fattening or disease producing, like the feedlot animals.
True, you won t keel over after one McDonald s hamburger. But the cumulative effect over the years of eating bad meats and bad animal fats weakens a body and makes it ripe for a disease to strike. Usually when you least expect it.
P.S. I learned most of this filming an eye and ear popping nutrition course Dr. Heidi Dulay taught in CA this spring. I hope to make some of the videos available soon.
Author Resource:-
Kim Klaver Industry consultant. Marketing guide for Whole Food Nation, whole food multis company. Whole Food Nation http://www.wholefoodnation.com
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