A question from a customer resulted in my answer coming in from left field.
We are very much enjoying the buffalo steaks we ordered from you. They're disappearing fast.
At one time I had a chart indicating the calories and fat grams in grass-fed buffalo. Every imaginable cut was on it. I swear I found it on your website, but I can't seem to locate it now. I've tried googling the information, but can't bring it up. Can you tell me where to find it?
Why are you seeking that information? That is like trying to define a car by looking only at tire size and square inches of back window. It doesn't even come close to providing all of the nutritional parameters. The only people I know who require that type of information are those who do not eat the Real Diet of Man. They eat all kinds of traditional stuff that in no way provides what human bodies require. So they select a few parameters in nutritional basics and try to adjust with those in order to fix the problems that arise from the overall diet.
I know this doesn't answer your question directly. Rather my answer is intended to introduce a whole new way of viewing food. All grass-fed meats, all of them no matter the species, are perfect foods for other animals. That's because the foundation food for all animal life is the green leaf. Therefore, if you ate nothing but grass-fed meats (doesn't matter if it's buffalo or beef or lamb or goat) you would get 100% of your body's nutrient needs in perfect balance. It's the only food group that does it. And you never need to measure. You just eat and your body takes care of everything else naturally. (In other words, if you are grossly overweight, you'd eat your fill at every meal and in time your weight would plunge to normal!)
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The info you seek will not be on my Web site. That's because it would only mislead people. And worst of all, when people follow dietary guidelines of the grain-based foods and transfer it over to the real foods from the grass-fed world, their rules actually encourage them to eat less of what their bodies need most.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
A Conversation That Led to a Bowel Movement
Hello, big fan of your blog. It taught me a lot about the Paleo diet and how grains are bad. However I need to know one thing, I don't usually eat a lot of meat, only one serving a day, mainly because I'm trying not to go over my protein intake limit. Therefore I eat plenty of legumes as well, such as Kidney Beans, and Garbanzo Beans. Are they also bad? I heard great things about Garbanzo Beans, but like the market hype about grains, info on Garbanzos may also be false. Regards N
Well, you wouldn't have survived with that approach to eating for the first four million years man was on the planet. ;-) Although you might of had a chance, albeit and unhealthy one, after he invented agricultural pursuits. That’s because when man invented agricultural pursuits he made common many foods that were scarce. For all of time meats and grasses were rarely scarce and legume seeds were nearly always scarce! That’s why bodies fail when fed the modern foods made abundant by agriculture that were at one time scarce.
What’s this about a protein limit? I never knew there was a law of nature regarding a “protein limit.” You can eat meat exclusive of all other foods and end up with perfect health. That doesn’t sound like a limit to me. Try that with legume seeds and it won't be long before you are toast. That's a fact, not a theory. Garbanzo beans are particularly destructive to animal bodies.
When it comes to figuring out which foods to eat, the minute you start thinking about calories, fat, protein, and such you're making a mistake. Worrying about that stuff is only for folks who indulge in the modern foods we've created in abundance with the invention of grain farming and such. They do that to rearrange the chairs on the deck of the Titanic. The results are always the same. They continue to live but rely on the medical profession to keep themselves alive and capable of living with their afflictions.
Thank you very much for your reply. When I first started trying to lose weight I included a lot of Potatoes, Corn, and Wholemeal bread into my diet. Then I moved on to Whole Grains for a couple of weeks, and I actually ended up with a fever for the first time in years. Coincidentally I was reading about how grains contain inflammatory agents and such, I guess that saved my life.
However I also know about the body's need for Fibre, and how grains result in very smooth bowel movement. Which is the opposite to what I have now, since I stopped eating bread. Would Vegetables alone suffice in providing fibre? I eat a lot of Green Peas, (which are bad from what I can see from your chart) and sometimes Green Beans. Usually the frozen varieties. I also eat a lot of Broccoli, Spinach and Cauliflower. Yet my bowel movements are still not as good as they were during my grain munching days. Is that normal?
One other question, how would you rate Olives? They contain too much Sodium when they're stored, yet you can never find fresh ripe ones unless you plant an olive tree or something. Regards N.
For an idea of judging good and bad foods look at this list: Food Analysis: GI, GL, Fat Ratio, and Inflammation.
As you'll see from the list, anything to do with olives is not good. Yes, one olive a week doesn't mean anything, but consuming olive oil and olives in salads, etc., means you are going down hill.
Well, you wouldn't have survived with that approach to eating for the first four million years man was on the planet. ;-) Although you might of had a chance, albeit and unhealthy one, after he invented agricultural pursuits. That’s because when man invented agricultural pursuits he made common many foods that were scarce. For all of time meats and grasses were rarely scarce and legume seeds were nearly always scarce! That’s why bodies fail when fed the modern foods made abundant by agriculture that were at one time scarce.
What’s this about a protein limit? I never knew there was a law of nature regarding a “protein limit.” You can eat meat exclusive of all other foods and end up with perfect health. That doesn’t sound like a limit to me. Try that with legume seeds and it won't be long before you are toast. That's a fact, not a theory. Garbanzo beans are particularly destructive to animal bodies.
When it comes to figuring out which foods to eat, the minute you start thinking about calories, fat, protein, and such you're making a mistake. Worrying about that stuff is only for folks who indulge in the modern foods we've created in abundance with the invention of grain farming and such. They do that to rearrange the chairs on the deck of the Titanic. The results are always the same. They continue to live but rely on the medical profession to keep themselves alive and capable of living with their afflictions.
Thank you very much for your reply. When I first started trying to lose weight I included a lot of Potatoes, Corn, and Wholemeal bread into my diet. Then I moved on to Whole Grains for a couple of weeks, and I actually ended up with a fever for the first time in years. Coincidentally I was reading about how grains contain inflammatory agents and such, I guess that saved my life.
However I also know about the body's need for Fibre, and how grains result in very smooth bowel movement. Which is the opposite to what I have now, since I stopped eating bread. Would Vegetables alone suffice in providing fibre? I eat a lot of Green Peas, (which are bad from what I can see from your chart) and sometimes Green Beans. Usually the frozen varieties. I also eat a lot of Broccoli, Spinach and Cauliflower. Yet my bowel movements are still not as good as they were during my grain munching days. Is that normal?
One other question, how would you rate Olives? They contain too much Sodium when they're stored, yet you can never find fresh ripe ones unless you plant an olive tree or something. Regards N.
For an idea of judging good and bad foods look at this list: Food Analysis: GI, GL, Fat Ratio, and Inflammation.
As you'll see from the list, anything to do with olives is not good. Yes, one olive a week doesn't mean anything, but consuming olive oil and olives in salads, etc., means you are going down hill.
93% Unborn Babies Have This New Problem!
This article is making the Internet rounds.
http://www.gobeyondorganic.com/Weekly-News-Tips/research-shows-93-unborn-babies-have-this-new-problem.html
Is this something we should be worrying about?
Yes, Bt Toxins are toxic to certain insects. They are 100% natural (organic?) and have always (for all of time) been a part of the soil environment. But some folks like to sell alkaline water so they terrorize the public with mythological dangers.
What the article doesn't say is that eating/feeding grain (including corn) is one of the most destructive things a mother can do for herself and/or her child. It's not that grain is potentially GMO that makes it bad for our health, it's because the very chemical composition of grain is foreign to animal life. That's why the eating/feeding of grain destroys the immune system and leads to nearly all of the chronic diseases known to man.
Why not focus on the very real danger, which is more like the atomic bomb going off, versus the one they are emphasizing which is like a lady finger firecracker in comparison?
For more about Bt toxins look at this.
http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect/05556.html
Then to learn more about the dangers of grain read this.
The Atomic Bomb of the American Food System: http://www.texasgrassfedbeef.com/the_atomic_bomb_of_american_food.htm
http://www.gobeyondorganic.com/Weekly-News-Tips/research-shows-93-unborn-babies-have-this-new-problem.html
Is this something we should be worrying about?
Yes, Bt Toxins are toxic to certain insects. They are 100% natural (organic?) and have always (for all of time) been a part of the soil environment. But some folks like to sell alkaline water so they terrorize the public with mythological dangers.
What the article doesn't say is that eating/feeding grain (including corn) is one of the most destructive things a mother can do for herself and/or her child. It's not that grain is potentially GMO that makes it bad for our health, it's because the very chemical composition of grain is foreign to animal life. That's why the eating/feeding of grain destroys the immune system and leads to nearly all of the chronic diseases known to man.
Why not focus on the very real danger, which is more like the atomic bomb going off, versus the one they are emphasizing which is like a lady finger firecracker in comparison?
For more about Bt toxins look at this.
http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect/05556.html
Then to learn more about the dangers of grain read this.
The Atomic Bomb of the American Food System: http://www.texasgrassfedbeef.com/the_atomic_bomb_of_american_food.htm
Friday, April 15, 2011
SGFM Recipe Contest
Slanker’s is launching a recipe contest. There will be prizes!
Submissions can be made on the Slanker Blog right here under the announcement of the contest, or submitted confidentially by email to goodmeat@slanker.com, or by snail mail to 3255 CR 45400, Powderly, TX 75473. Prizes for the contest will be awarded a few weeks after the June 30, 2011 cutoff date. We want to have time to properly evaluate last minute submissions. Of course we will continue to take submissions after that date, but the cutoff for the prizes is June 30, 2011.
All recipe submissions will become the property of Slanker’s Grass-Fed Meats. If we get a good number of recipes hopefully we can put them in book form. If we do that, all submissions used in the book will be worth a $25 Gift Certificate plus a copy of the book.
The overriding criteria is nutrition followed by dining pleasure. In other words, recipes that do not strictly adhere to the principles of The Real Diet of Man will be rejected immediately. That means recipes utilizing walnuts, whole grains, honey, olive oil, and such are taboo. (Yes, walnuts offset by flax seed can equalize the EFAs, but the EFA load is huge, way more than we need in our diet.) We are also very interested in dishes that replicate traditional American foods. In fact they create the most excitement, but ingredients have to be from the Caveman’s “cupboard” so to speak.
Our nutritional aim is to maintain an appropriate balance in Omega-6 and Omega-3 fatty acids with a low glycemic load. Make sure you watch your Glycemic Load and Glycemic Index numbers.
As a rough guide you can use my Food Analysis: GI, GL, Fat Ratio, and Inflammation for ideas and evaluations. But do not hesitate to expand beyond these food items. Just make sure you check out your ingredients. A good link for that is Nutrition Data.
Grand Prize = $200 Gift Certificate
Second Place = $100 Gift Certificate
Third Place = $50 Gift Certificate
Recipes must be original, not copied from copyrighted sources. They can cover a broad selection of dishes including all the grass-fed meats, wild seafood, plus appropriate vegetables and fruits. We are even interested in submissions that use ingredients such as canned spinach and canned high fat tuna! So let your imaginations run wild.Second Place = $100 Gift Certificate
Third Place = $50 Gift Certificate
Submissions can be made on the Slanker Blog right here under the announcement of the contest, or submitted confidentially by email to goodmeat@slanker.com, or by snail mail to 3255 CR 45400, Powderly, TX 75473. Prizes for the contest will be awarded a few weeks after the June 30, 2011 cutoff date. We want to have time to properly evaluate last minute submissions. Of course we will continue to take submissions after that date, but the cutoff for the prizes is June 30, 2011.
All recipe submissions will become the property of Slanker’s Grass-Fed Meats. If we get a good number of recipes hopefully we can put them in book form. If we do that, all submissions used in the book will be worth a $25 Gift Certificate plus a copy of the book.
The overriding criteria is nutrition followed by dining pleasure. In other words, recipes that do not strictly adhere to the principles of The Real Diet of Man will be rejected immediately. That means recipes utilizing walnuts, whole grains, honey, olive oil, and such are taboo. (Yes, walnuts offset by flax seed can equalize the EFAs, but the EFA load is huge, way more than we need in our diet.) We are also very interested in dishes that replicate traditional American foods. In fact they create the most excitement, but ingredients have to be from the Caveman’s “cupboard” so to speak.
Our nutritional aim is to maintain an appropriate balance in Omega-6 and Omega-3 fatty acids with a low glycemic load. Make sure you watch your Glycemic Load and Glycemic Index numbers.
As a rough guide you can use my Food Analysis: GI, GL, Fat Ratio, and Inflammation for ideas and evaluations. But do not hesitate to expand beyond these food items. Just make sure you check out your ingredients. A good link for that is Nutrition Data.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
CNN can’t get it right either . . .
Today CNN posted an article tilted “The grass-fed vs. grain-fed beef debate.”
The article was written in consumer friendly mumbo jumbo and probably has as much misinformation as it does good information. For instance CNN’s cooking suggestions ranged from doing it correctly to totally destroying a meat cut. It cooked roasts low and slow and steaks quickly. As we all know, grass-fed steaks must be cooked low and slow too and anything past medium rare for a grass-fed steak is over cooked.
For an absolute fact CNN’s nutritional message for grass-fed meats was lost by mixing comments from knowledgeable people with those of idiots with professional degrees. For instance I’ll quote three paragraphs.
Grass-fed beef is lower in calories, contains more healthy omega-3 fats, more vitamins A and E, higher levels of antioxidants, and up to seven times the beta-carotene. Skeptics such as Chris Raines, a professor of meat science at Penn State, say the benefits of the different fat profiles are overblown:
“Some people get very excited about the fatty-acid profile of grass-fed beef. Then, in the same breath, they’ll talk about how wonderfully lean it is. We’re talking up the good fats that aren’t really there.”
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, which says it supports all forms of beef production, echoes this much-ado-about-not-much theme. Shalene McNeill, who has a Ph.D. in human nutrition and is executive director for human nutrition research at the association, acknowledges that “if you feed (cows) grass, you can slightly increase the omega-3 content, but if you look at it in terms of a whole diet, it’s not a significant advantage to human health.”
The first sentence is correct. The rest of the verbiage is bald-faced illustrations of idiots in motion – or opinions from people who live and work in denial with obvious conflicts of interest. Those of us in the actual grass-fed meat industry do not emphasize lean for starters. We love the fat and eat it. Our ground beef products are 10% and 22% fat. We also sell packages of just fat!
In addition, the all important essential fatty acids (EFAs) are in the membranes of cells not just in the visible fat on a carcass. To say that the EFAs do not exist because there is very little intramuscular fat is ignorance at best and deliberately misleading at its worst. It is correct to say that eating grass-fed meats (and even wild fish) in addition to the regular American grain-based foods will not improve one’s health.
BUT, when one eats grass-fed meats and eliminates grains, concocted grain-based foods, grain-fed livestock products, nuts, and high glycemic foods one will improve body function by a huge degree. This is the point whenever nutrition is introduced into the food equation. If we want to eat foods that cure chronic disease and maintain good health, then we must eat The Real Diet of Man. Grass-fed meats are only one part of the solution. If we look at food as a form of entertainment, as CNN did in its article, then who cares what we eat? Why even think in terms of nutrients and such? Let’s just eat and let the health care costs soar.
So once again a huge media business puts out information that does not inform. It had a chance to provide good solid nutritional information that could help millions of people. Instead, it painted the proponents of grass-fed meat and peer-reviewed nutritional science as con artists.
Yes, CNN said: As for nutrition, we put fat-content claims to the test by sending some of our finest grass-fed steaks for nutritional analysis, along with supermarket and specialty grain-fed cuts. But it did not release those statistics. Why? And I’m sure if it did, it would not have indicated the importance of a balanced EFA profile.
So once again a major media outfit reports on a simple topic and misses the mark by no less than hundreds of miles. It makes you shudder when you think we are relying on these same media outlets for information on other important topics such as economics, politics, and even on what’s going on down the street.
As I close this comment, I want to emphasize that the only reason for anyone to have an interest in grass-fed meats is for improving one’s health and well being. But it will not work if one continues to eat the traditional American grain-based and high glycemic foods. Grass-fed meats are all about nutrition. They are all about following The Real Diet of Man. They are not about flavor, humane treatment of animals, the environment, cost, tradition, organic, or any of the other miscellaneous reasons given by members of the mob.
The article was written in consumer friendly mumbo jumbo and probably has as much misinformation as it does good information. For instance CNN’s cooking suggestions ranged from doing it correctly to totally destroying a meat cut. It cooked roasts low and slow and steaks quickly. As we all know, grass-fed steaks must be cooked low and slow too and anything past medium rare for a grass-fed steak is over cooked.
For an absolute fact CNN’s nutritional message for grass-fed meats was lost by mixing comments from knowledgeable people with those of idiots with professional degrees. For instance I’ll quote three paragraphs.
Grass-fed beef is lower in calories, contains more healthy omega-3 fats, more vitamins A and E, higher levels of antioxidants, and up to seven times the beta-carotene. Skeptics such as Chris Raines, a professor of meat science at Penn State, say the benefits of the different fat profiles are overblown:
“Some people get very excited about the fatty-acid profile of grass-fed beef. Then, in the same breath, they’ll talk about how wonderfully lean it is. We’re talking up the good fats that aren’t really there.”
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, which says it supports all forms of beef production, echoes this much-ado-about-not-much theme. Shalene McNeill, who has a Ph.D. in human nutrition and is executive director for human nutrition research at the association, acknowledges that “if you feed (cows) grass, you can slightly increase the omega-3 content, but if you look at it in terms of a whole diet, it’s not a significant advantage to human health.”
The first sentence is correct. The rest of the verbiage is bald-faced illustrations of idiots in motion – or opinions from people who live and work in denial with obvious conflicts of interest. Those of us in the actual grass-fed meat industry do not emphasize lean for starters. We love the fat and eat it. Our ground beef products are 10% and 22% fat. We also sell packages of just fat!
In addition, the all important essential fatty acids (EFAs) are in the membranes of cells not just in the visible fat on a carcass. To say that the EFAs do not exist because there is very little intramuscular fat is ignorance at best and deliberately misleading at its worst. It is correct to say that eating grass-fed meats (and even wild fish) in addition to the regular American grain-based foods will not improve one’s health.
BUT, when one eats grass-fed meats and eliminates grains, concocted grain-based foods, grain-fed livestock products, nuts, and high glycemic foods one will improve body function by a huge degree. This is the point whenever nutrition is introduced into the food equation. If we want to eat foods that cure chronic disease and maintain good health, then we must eat The Real Diet of Man. Grass-fed meats are only one part of the solution. If we look at food as a form of entertainment, as CNN did in its article, then who cares what we eat? Why even think in terms of nutrients and such? Let’s just eat and let the health care costs soar.
So once again a huge media business puts out information that does not inform. It had a chance to provide good solid nutritional information that could help millions of people. Instead, it painted the proponents of grass-fed meat and peer-reviewed nutritional science as con artists.
Yes, CNN said: As for nutrition, we put fat-content claims to the test by sending some of our finest grass-fed steaks for nutritional analysis, along with supermarket and specialty grain-fed cuts. But it did not release those statistics. Why? And I’m sure if it did, it would not have indicated the importance of a balanced EFA profile.
So once again a major media outfit reports on a simple topic and misses the mark by no less than hundreds of miles. It makes you shudder when you think we are relying on these same media outlets for information on other important topics such as economics, politics, and even on what’s going on down the street.
As I close this comment, I want to emphasize that the only reason for anyone to have an interest in grass-fed meats is for improving one’s health and well being. But it will not work if one continues to eat the traditional American grain-based and high glycemic foods. Grass-fed meats are all about nutrition. They are all about following The Real Diet of Man. They are not about flavor, humane treatment of animals, the environment, cost, tradition, organic, or any of the other miscellaneous reasons given by members of the mob.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Body Ecology Diet / Gut and Psychology Syndrome Diet
The Body Ecology Diet (BED) and the Gut and Psychology Syndrome Diet (GAPS) are popular with some parents – especially those whose children suffer with mental disorders and intestinal issues. Since these two diets are gaining in popularity, I have reviewed their Web sites and dietary suggestions.
BED
To improve health and well being BED focuses on adding cultured foods to the diet, changing the quality of fats and oils one consumes, drastically reducing the intake of carbohydrates and sugars, and taking a whole host of supplements. The emphasis is on curing gut issues. Seemingly, curing gut issues is their answer to curing nearly ALL chronic diseases.
In my opinion the first and fourth choices are totally unnecessary and the later two choices are laudable – only if properly executed. Unfortunately, BED's menus indicate the sponsors do not understand as much as they should about food. In other words their food choices may address some gut issues, but they will not fully accomplish their stated goals! In fact, many of BED's food selections will actually cause all the many chronic diseases Americans battle. Over all, it is slightly better than typical daily American fare, but it is a feeble effort compared to The Real Diet of Man.
Some BED recipes call for over-ripe bananas, raisins, oats, buckwheat, organic peanut butter, organic sugar, organic eggs, organic butter (as if the word “organic” makes horrible stuff good), spelt, olive oil, rice milk, and the list of horrible foods goes on and on. These foods have highly skewed balances (high levels of Omega-6 fatty acids and low levels of Omega-3 fatty acids) of the critically important essential fatty acids (EFAs) and/or are high glycemic. In some cases they are universally contaminated with fungi and molds!
Amazingly BED strongly recommends amaranth, buckwheat, millet and quinoa! They call them seeds instead of grain. I guess they do not know that all grains are seeds of annual grass plants. (Even corn is a grass.) Right, the chemical composition of seeds differs greatly from the green leaf. And amaranth, buckwheat, millet and quinoa seeds have fatty acids profiles that are worse than many conventional grains. Check them out in my GI, GL, Fat Ratio, and Inflammation Web page and you’ll see what I mean.
My conclusion is that if you eat foods recommenced by BED you must purchase the many supplements, probiotics, and other stuff they sell to hopefully offset the damage. I seriously doubt that even with the supplements you will be able to properly balance the crucial EFAs.
GAP
GAP is better than BED. It focuses mostly on meat and veggies. But once again, as with BED, the GAP folks believe the organic label cures all sins. A discussion on organic, natural, and other worthless food terms will follow in a future post. Until then, keep in mind that the natural chemicals making up foods themselves have far an away more impact on a body than do any other unnatural contaminants introduced by man. In other words, it’s the nutrients, or lack of them, in the more popular foods that has the greatest impact on human health. High glycemic is still high glycemic. Low Omega-3 is still low Omega-3, etc.
For instance, high glycemic foods cause fungal infestations within one's body to spew out mycotoxins. Fungi and their mycotoxins are 100% organic and everyone has a fungal infestation within their body. And for a fact, mycotoxins are the biggest chemical contaminant in our foods. If all foods were organic, unless people changed to The Real Diet of Man, the incidences of chronic disease would be exactly the same as it is today without organic foods. Therefore organic is basically meaningless in terms of food safety and nutrition!
The GAP folks do not differentiate between grain-fed meats and grass-fed meats. They think chicken is a healthy meat even if it is grain-fed from conception. Surprisingly they recommend animal fats. But what good are animal fats if the animals eat grain? Once again the GAP diet does not recognize that in nearly all cases an organic egg is nutritionally identical to the cheapest grain-fed eggs all stores sell. They do not understand that free range, brown eggs, and/or cage-free are meaningless terms when it comes to nutritional characteristics. Obviously they do not know that some eggs are Omega-3 eggs, therefore far healthier eggs.
GAP recommends avocados. It recommends pancakes made with organic nut butter (almond, walnut, peanut). It recommends breads made with nuts and salad dressings made with olive oil mixed with sunflower and/or sesame and/or pumpkin seeds. GAP also recommends pineapple, mangoes, and “more” honey.
Avocados, olive oil, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, almonds, pecans, and walnuts are exceptionally high Omega-6 sources. Of course peanuts are a legume seed, not a nut, and they are very dense sources of Omega-6. Pineapple, mangoes, and honey are high glycemic. Honey is nearly off the top of the glycemic chart! These foods are body killers!
Popular Diets are Horrible Diets
These two diets are "prescribed" primarily for sick people -- those with mental disorders and gut issues -- not everyone. But gut issues and mental disorders are just a few of the many disorders that fall under the category of chronic disease. Chronic diseases are body failures. Nearly all body failures are due to the food people eat. Therefore why not have a diet that is for everyone. That's what The True Diet of Man is -- a diet for everyone. It's for people with health issues and those who want to avoid health issues in the future. For me, that is the only answer to eating properly. Therefore the diet I follow is for sick people and healthy people. That's because we all need the same, exact basic nutrients for optimal body function across the board.
Just about all popular diets are similar to BED and GAP primarily because they only rearrange the chairs on the Titanic. In other words, they try to replicate the traditional foods with different ingredients – unfortunately their different choices do not differ nutritionally! For instance, spelt is an old wheat variety that is actually worse in nutrient composition than many of the newer varieties most commonly used today. That is also true of the nutrient compositions of amaranth, buckwheat, millet and quinoa.
The only way to create change is to change. That means one must reject most modern-day traditional foods and learn to appreciate different foods and food combinations. That’s what The Real Diet of Man does. It is a complete rejection of the modern-day, traditional, grain-based food system. It’s focus is on grass-fed meats, veggies, low glycemic foods, only some fruits sparingly, and nuts rarely. No dairy, raw or not.
Now that is change because all grain or seeds, grain-based foods, grain-fed livestock, and high glycemic foods are out. It’s such a huge change true Paleo eaters have a very difficult time finding something to eat when they go to a restaurant, a dinner function, or a friend’s house. They quickly discover they are no longer in the social loop! Therefore it takes real determination and discipline to eat correctly in our society.
For optimal body function the objective of one’s diet is to have the essential fatty acids (EFAs) in perfect balance, get the whole spectrum of other required nutrients in perfect balance, to eat enough energy and protein to fully sustain one’s lifestyle, and to eat foods that subdue fungal infestations. That can only be achieved with The Real Diet of Man without any backsliding. This is the only way to strengthened the immune system, improve brain and all other aspects of body function, and lower mycotoxin loads to sustainable levels. Anything less leaves the body vulnerable to body failure and . . . all chronic diseases are body failures.
Important links relating to this commentary.
Food Analysis: GI, GL, Fat Ratio, and Inflammation
It All Began in the Sea . . .
Man Is an Extension of the Leafy, Green Plant
The Real Diet of Man is Very Simple
Brain Function is Unequivocally Food Dependent
Autism and Omega-3 Fatty Acids
BED
GAP
BED
To improve health and well being BED focuses on adding cultured foods to the diet, changing the quality of fats and oils one consumes, drastically reducing the intake of carbohydrates and sugars, and taking a whole host of supplements. The emphasis is on curing gut issues. Seemingly, curing gut issues is their answer to curing nearly ALL chronic diseases.
In my opinion the first and fourth choices are totally unnecessary and the later two choices are laudable – only if properly executed. Unfortunately, BED's menus indicate the sponsors do not understand as much as they should about food. In other words their food choices may address some gut issues, but they will not fully accomplish their stated goals! In fact, many of BED's food selections will actually cause all the many chronic diseases Americans battle. Over all, it is slightly better than typical daily American fare, but it is a feeble effort compared to The Real Diet of Man.
Some BED recipes call for over-ripe bananas, raisins, oats, buckwheat, organic peanut butter, organic sugar, organic eggs, organic butter (as if the word “organic” makes horrible stuff good), spelt, olive oil, rice milk, and the list of horrible foods goes on and on. These foods have highly skewed balances (high levels of Omega-6 fatty acids and low levels of Omega-3 fatty acids) of the critically important essential fatty acids (EFAs) and/or are high glycemic. In some cases they are universally contaminated with fungi and molds!
Amazingly BED strongly recommends amaranth, buckwheat, millet and quinoa! They call them seeds instead of grain. I guess they do not know that all grains are seeds of annual grass plants. (Even corn is a grass.) Right, the chemical composition of seeds differs greatly from the green leaf. And amaranth, buckwheat, millet and quinoa seeds have fatty acids profiles that are worse than many conventional grains. Check them out in my GI, GL, Fat Ratio, and Inflammation Web page and you’ll see what I mean.
My conclusion is that if you eat foods recommenced by BED you must purchase the many supplements, probiotics, and other stuff they sell to hopefully offset the damage. I seriously doubt that even with the supplements you will be able to properly balance the crucial EFAs.
GAP
GAP is better than BED. It focuses mostly on meat and veggies. But once again, as with BED, the GAP folks believe the organic label cures all sins. A discussion on organic, natural, and other worthless food terms will follow in a future post. Until then, keep in mind that the natural chemicals making up foods themselves have far an away more impact on a body than do any other unnatural contaminants introduced by man. In other words, it’s the nutrients, or lack of them, in the more popular foods that has the greatest impact on human health. High glycemic is still high glycemic. Low Omega-3 is still low Omega-3, etc.
For instance, high glycemic foods cause fungal infestations within one's body to spew out mycotoxins. Fungi and their mycotoxins are 100% organic and everyone has a fungal infestation within their body. And for a fact, mycotoxins are the biggest chemical contaminant in our foods. If all foods were organic, unless people changed to The Real Diet of Man, the incidences of chronic disease would be exactly the same as it is today without organic foods. Therefore organic is basically meaningless in terms of food safety and nutrition!
The GAP folks do not differentiate between grain-fed meats and grass-fed meats. They think chicken is a healthy meat even if it is grain-fed from conception. Surprisingly they recommend animal fats. But what good are animal fats if the animals eat grain? Once again the GAP diet does not recognize that in nearly all cases an organic egg is nutritionally identical to the cheapest grain-fed eggs all stores sell. They do not understand that free range, brown eggs, and/or cage-free are meaningless terms when it comes to nutritional characteristics. Obviously they do not know that some eggs are Omega-3 eggs, therefore far healthier eggs.
GAP recommends avocados. It recommends pancakes made with organic nut butter (almond, walnut, peanut). It recommends breads made with nuts and salad dressings made with olive oil mixed with sunflower and/or sesame and/or pumpkin seeds. GAP also recommends pineapple, mangoes, and “more” honey.
Avocados, olive oil, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, almonds, pecans, and walnuts are exceptionally high Omega-6 sources. Of course peanuts are a legume seed, not a nut, and they are very dense sources of Omega-6. Pineapple, mangoes, and honey are high glycemic. Honey is nearly off the top of the glycemic chart! These foods are body killers!
Popular Diets are Horrible Diets
These two diets are "prescribed" primarily for sick people -- those with mental disorders and gut issues -- not everyone. But gut issues and mental disorders are just a few of the many disorders that fall under the category of chronic disease. Chronic diseases are body failures. Nearly all body failures are due to the food people eat. Therefore why not have a diet that is for everyone. That's what The True Diet of Man is -- a diet for everyone. It's for people with health issues and those who want to avoid health issues in the future. For me, that is the only answer to eating properly. Therefore the diet I follow is for sick people and healthy people. That's because we all need the same, exact basic nutrients for optimal body function across the board.
Just about all popular diets are similar to BED and GAP primarily because they only rearrange the chairs on the Titanic. In other words, they try to replicate the traditional foods with different ingredients – unfortunately their different choices do not differ nutritionally! For instance, spelt is an old wheat variety that is actually worse in nutrient composition than many of the newer varieties most commonly used today. That is also true of the nutrient compositions of amaranth, buckwheat, millet and quinoa.
The only way to create change is to change. That means one must reject most modern-day traditional foods and learn to appreciate different foods and food combinations. That’s what The Real Diet of Man does. It is a complete rejection of the modern-day, traditional, grain-based food system. It’s focus is on grass-fed meats, veggies, low glycemic foods, only some fruits sparingly, and nuts rarely. No dairy, raw or not.
Now that is change because all grain or seeds, grain-based foods, grain-fed livestock, and high glycemic foods are out. It’s such a huge change true Paleo eaters have a very difficult time finding something to eat when they go to a restaurant, a dinner function, or a friend’s house. They quickly discover they are no longer in the social loop! Therefore it takes real determination and discipline to eat correctly in our society.
For optimal body function the objective of one’s diet is to have the essential fatty acids (EFAs) in perfect balance, get the whole spectrum of other required nutrients in perfect balance, to eat enough energy and protein to fully sustain one’s lifestyle, and to eat foods that subdue fungal infestations. That can only be achieved with The Real Diet of Man without any backsliding. This is the only way to strengthened the immune system, improve brain and all other aspects of body function, and lower mycotoxin loads to sustainable levels. Anything less leaves the body vulnerable to body failure and . . . all chronic diseases are body failures.
Important links relating to this commentary.
Food Analysis: GI, GL, Fat Ratio, and Inflammation
It All Began in the Sea . . .
Man Is an Extension of the Leafy, Green Plant
The Real Diet of Man is Very Simple
Brain Function is Unequivocally Food Dependent
Autism and Omega-3 Fatty Acids
BED
GAP
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Starting Out
Every time I start something new with a computer it seems to be real difficult at first. Then in time it smooths out and becomes routine. Well, let's hope for the best. My objective here is to have a blog that focuses on nutrition, health, all aspects of the grass-fed meat game, and other pertinent subjects not currently on my mind. So let's get with it and see how this blog works or doesn't work.
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