In the previous article, as we discovered the benefits of eating red meat, I promised to report back on the healthiest and yummiest secrets to choose and prepare beef and lamb. Here are my cherished rules, shared just for you!
1. Eat organic, pasture-raised, beef and lamb …
this will help you avoid residual pesticides, hormones, and antibiotics in conventionally raised cattle. Do you know that the hormones injected in cows to promote rapid weight gain have exactly the same effect on women who eat meats with steroids?…
2. Minimize your consumption of grilled meats, …
which might be carcinogenic. Eat barbecued hamburgers and steaks only occasionally, and always with lacto-fermented, cruciferous vegetables, like sauerkraut or kimchi. Such combination neutralizes cancer promoting substances in grilled meats.
3. Cook full-fat portions of meat …
not only are they more tender and delicious, they also contain important for our health anti-microbial fatty acids. As for fats, only rancid vegetable oils and modified trans-fats are bad for you.
4. Do not be squeamish about eating organ meats,…
such as liver and heart - they are true depositories of precious, health promoting minerals and vitamins, which are hard to obtain from any other food.
5. Kick the can and make your own nutritious bouillon…
out of inexpensive beef and lamb bones (especially bone marrow). Home-made broth is highly valued in French cuisine because nothing beats its flavour in soups and sauces. Do you also know that the minerals and gelatine in bone broth will protect you from osteoporosis and stomach ailments?
6. Tender portions of red meat…
(like filet and rib cuts of beef, or leg of lamb) should be eaten rare, with the most of their vitamin and enzyme content still intact.
7. Marinate stewing meats or roasts overnight in yogurt or red wine …
your guests will truly appreciate the world class flavour and enhanced tenderness in each bite.
By following these strategic rules, you are now well-equipped to turn beef and lamb into mouth watering, healthy dishes for your family and friends. Who knows, maybe even your vegetarian friends will reconsider their believes once they are aware of the many benifits of eating meat? :)
About the Author
Amanda Brown is our Healthy Lifestyle Expert. Amanda lives in Canada, and her background includes Degrees in Ethnology, History, and Wholistic Therapies. Her true passion, though, lies in the fields of traditional nutrition, history of medicine… learn more about Amanda here.
Thank you for the writing an article with the positive message about consuming red meat. Beef is one of thee most complete proteins and not to mention, it tastes great! One concern I do have regarding the content of the article is that organic, grass-fed beef products are just as safe and healthy for you as corn-fed. The USDA has strict regulations on ALL types of beef provided to the consumers and so I don’t believe it is necessary to really promote one or the other; it depends upon the consumer’s choice. I have always been partial to corn-fed beef myself simply because I was raised on a beef cattle farm. My father wouldn’t support and raise a product that wasn’t wholesome and healthy for consumers so do not be afraid to try all three types of meat before making the decision.
If you would like more information regarding this topic as well as other current issues in the beef industry check-out the following websites:
http://www.beef.org
Beefmatters.com
beefblog.org
Thanks again!
That’s a great article! I love beef and it’s great to know that it is not as bad as some “healthy foods” sources say. Thanks!
I rosted beef overnight in red wine, the flavour was indescribable! My guests fell in love with the recipe.
Great advice!!! Thank you for this informative article!
Thanks for the info. Ill be able to eat beef without the guilt feeling.
Dear Amanda Brown
I think you got something wrong here, there is no healthy way to eat meat and by nature we aren’t meat eaters and also no milk products eaters and drinkers and no eggs.
If you feed cows with animal products they get crazy, mad cow disease or Alzheimer disease.
Try to look around on the Internet a see for your self all these diseases there are, all related to meat eating.
Rave diet for example is a good and healthy way of living and from fit for life you get a lot of information also to further reading.
I could tell you a lot but there is no space enough.
But I hope you do something with this and test it out in this way: eat for let’s say about 14 days healthy in that way fruit in the morning until 12 am that means fresh fruit or smoothie: banana, slice pineapple, boat melon, juice from 2 orange and 1 lemon, fresh Aloe Vera and some mango that’s my B.F. 10am an apple and 12 lunch a banana and a little muesli round bread and around dinner I make a board with a mixed salad from avocado, melon, tomato, cucumber, onion, bell pepper, leeks, freshly grated carrots, any kind of lettuce: romaine lettuce, green leafy lettuce and you can also use baby spinach, and sweet onion and you don’t need dressing for your meal and it’s delicious.
And then after 14 days try your normal way of living and you lose energy and don’t feel good.
And why eat something like liver this is the cleaning machine from the animal with waste substances.
So dear Amanda back to school.
IF AND I SAY IF YOU WANT TO EAT MEAT ONLY WITH VEGETABLES THEN YOU MAKE THE DAMAGE AS LESS AS POSSIBLE. But meat eating give you damage and don’t eat fruit after meat, it rottens in your guts. Cats are meat eaters but if they get no raw meat, you can read about that at this site Pottenger’s Cats. And the same with us we are no meat eaters but we get the wrong food, if meat, milk and eggs were healthy to us there will not be so many US people with overweight and not so much hospitals. Meat eating kills more people than anything else.
Greetings Adam
We are meat eaters, Adam. We’re omnivorous. Are you sure it is eating meat that is killing so many people when there are so many other factors at play? I doubt you are sure, but off you go with all these other radical suggestions for people’s diets.
And for the record. Liver is actually one of the healthiest whole foods out there. Combined with dark green veggies, it is a sure way to get large amounts of a wide array of nutrients. It’s also perfectly natural to eat liver, seeing as many groups of hunter-gatherers go for organ meats like the liver first, and include organ meats as a frequently eaten element of their diet. And remember, we were all hunter-gatherers for many thousands of years, so you can be fairly certain that preferences such as that have shaped and been shaped by our evolution. Sure enough, the nutrients in liver and other organ meats are highly bioavailable.
Just another note for Adam. Canned fruit is just as healthy as fresh. In some cases (but not all) more so.
So dear Adam back to school.
I would say that MODERATION of all our actions, is the key word for staying healthy.
And as the old saying goes “What’s good for the goose, is not always good for the gander”.
Finally someone who understands that red meat and natural fats (even saturated) will not kill you but are extremely healthful to the body if they are clean and not contaminated.
The modern food industry is sick and unnatural in the way that they produce food and treat livestock. If we make a return to the ways that our ancestors raised our food (pasture-fed, no hormone/chemicals) then we will return to health.
The body is designed to digest meat as well as plant food, and anybody that denies that ought to take a human biology course and look into digestive functioning (on the scientific level NOT the foolish ‘expert’s all agree’ or ‘the whatever association recommends” level). Eat the animal or the animal product (or even plants for that matter) raised as it was meant to be raised and you will feel better. Return to a ‘junk-food’ unnatural diet and you’ll feel like garbage yet again…
Garbage in Garbage out…
Dear CS,
I too enjoy eating red meat, and I absolutely agree with everything you said in your comment! Our bodies are designed to consume meat, but these days we need to try eat organic, including meat, as processed food is the root of all our health problems… I just wish people in all those Comities realized that once and for all and started educating public on what’s really healthy and what’s not.
absolutely Olga!
Our ancestors certainly did not consume all these synthetic sprays and antibiotics, etc nor did they abuse the land and animals by exposing THEM to it. A problem with organic MEATS is that the animal, is not necessarily eating the TYPE of food it was meant to (organic raised cattle may be eating grain rather than grass). WHAT they eat truly has an effect on what WE consume for nutrition. We may not be eating synthetic chemicals but are we eating what the animal was intended to give. Proper food and nutrition needs to be given to the animal in order for US to benefit from it!
:)
You are absolutely right! I am on vacation in Costa Rica now and all I see when driving is cows eating grass. All over the country side. I wish our “organic” cows had the same healthy and natural nutrition…