Want To Lose A Few Pounds? Eat Meat.

Yes, it's the short-cut, easy, fast, convenient food that is worst for us: high sugar soft drinks, the prepackaged, ready to eat, grab & go high carb diet, with appetite stimulants like monosodium glutamate and preservatives to extend shelf life, all designed to make its consumers crave more. That diet, disconnected from nature, grew more and more prevalent throughout the latter half of the twentieth century, along with with obesity, type II diabetes, and related diseases. Meanwhile, in 1987, a new nutrient was discovered by accident when scientists were trying to find a link between cancers and red meat: conjugated linoleic acid, a healthful fatty acid which helps satisfy the appetite while actually helping the body resist cancers. They also discovered that the meat and milk from ruminant animals is the best and virtually only reliable source of CLA. In laboratory and experimental animal studies, CLA has been shown to be a powerful anti-carcinogen at relatively low levels. It has also been shown to exhibit other positive health effects, such as being anti-atherogenic, anti-diabetic, providing enhanced immune function, better mental health, and improved body composition (when accompanied by moderate exercise). But if we eat like our ancestors did, we won't eat grain-fed meat; it will be grass-fed, as all meat from ruminant animals was for thousands of years, until the beef industry started relying on short-cuts like grain-feeding and hormone implants to satisfy the desire for speed, profit and convenience above the best possible human health and bovine well-being. That's the kicker for today's beef industry. For the meat to contain beneficial amounts of CLA, its diet must be grass, not grain. As any long-time successful cow/calf producer will tell you, the right kind of cattle adapt to a specific place and thrive on good pasture forages. The key word to our dilemma here is not the word "beef" but the word "industry." Since the 1970s, an enormously expensive, centralized, entrenched infrastructure has established the industrial aspect of beef, eventually allowing three or four big packers to capture the majority of the market and to capitalize on the agricultural aspects of localized beef production. To convert our beef supply back to accommodate more grassfed beef, allowing truly balanced nutrition to re-enter the food chain, will require considerable re-thinking and a lot less packer greed. High-priced corn and expensive long-distance transportation have turned profit margins into losses for cattle feeders. De-centralization of packing plants and re-establishment of regional and localized infrastructure makes more sense than ever. We can have our CLA and our beef industry, too, if the industrial giants will let it happen—and if people can allow enough green stuff to grow cover the earth so that rain will fall again. But that’s another story….

Meat contains more proteins than plants and that my friends is a plain old fact.Meat product constitute of around 20-22 amino acids which provide for the essential nourishment of the body whereas plans contain only 16 amino acids which on comparison with meat does stay at a disadvantage.So,it is indeed a healthy option to eat meat but mix it up with organic plant products and derive the maximum nourishment.Medifast diet program