Hey Steve,
I was checking out Dr. Al Sears website, the guy that created the Pace Program that Chris talks about and came across this.
Eat Wild Game, Grass-Fed Meat
My dad was a hunter. We always had rabbit, squirrel and quail – and occasionally deer or wild boar. He claimed that eating meat could make you strong and “put hair on your chest.”
I never took this literally until decades later, when I found research that red meat is the best source of muscle building creatine, provides the highest concentration of heart-fueling CoQ10 and increases testosterone levels.
As testosterone drops, men lose body hair. As testosterone rises, men experience increases in body hair in a masculine distribution. You were right, Dad; meat really does put hair on your chest.
The meat we ate was either wild game or from nearby farms. The majority of the meat we eat today comes from commercial farms. Farmers feed the cattle grain, animal by-products, and synthetic hormones and antibiotics.
Feedlot cattle do not eat what nature intended them to eat. As a result, the cattle often have a difficult time digesting the starch and get sick or die. To combat the disorders caused by a starchy diet, farmers inject the animals with antibiotics.
The percentage of livestock that is salmonella resistant to five different antibiotics has increased from less than one percent in 1980 to 34 percent in 1996.2The numbers continue to rise. A growing body of evidence incriminates feedlot growth hormones as a risk factor for gastrointestinal cancers.
How can you follow this tradition? Eat wild game and grass-fed beef. You can find these products at the grocery store if you ask and you can order them online. The prices are a bit higher, but the health benefits are substantial. Grass-fed beef and wild game is higher in omega-3, CoQ10, beta-carotene and vitamin E.
This reduces your risk of heart disease, certain cancers, depression, high blood pressure, and diabetes. What’s more, grass-fed beef is five times higher in CLA than in feedlot beef. CLA helps convert fat to lean muscle.
1. Grass-fed Beef – Your body relies on protein for nearly every function it performs. And beef is one of the best sources of whole food nutrition there is. The emphasis here is on grass-fed beef.
Most commercial beef is grain fed, which causes an imbalance in the fatty acids of the cow. You get an unhealthy ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids when you eat grain-fed animals. It’s that imbalance, not animal fats in general, that contribute to heart disease.
You can find grass-fed beef at health food stores, or online. I prefer U.S. Wellness Meats. Find them at www.grasslandbeef.com.
The whole article can be read here. Al Sears, MD
I went to his website to look into the Pace program and it sounds pretty good, I'm going to buy the book. I never expected to find an article on eating meat. Roooth is right Dr. Fuhrman says if you don't completely cut out meat you should limit it. I would think that a grass fed pig would be the same as a grass fed cow.
I know what you mean about bacon, I love bacon but haven't had any for a long time. My favorite is crispy bacon on homemade whole wheat toast with mayo. I've always heard that pork is the worst of the meats a person could eat which is why I don't eat it. I have a friend who eats turkey bacon and swears to me it tastes exactly the same as pork bacon.
Yeah, that's generally what I agree with. As far as vitamin B12 is concerned, well I bookmarked this page a long time ago, it has a list of all deficiency symptoms. If I look up B12 it lists them, however note that these symptoms may be due to other deficiencies, not just B12.
| Symptom | Deficiency (B12 in bold) |
| Dim vision (amblyopia) | vitamins B1, B2, C, B12 (allergy testing) |
| Hemorrhaging in the back of the eye (retinitis) | vitamin B6, zinc, bioflavonoids (also magnesium, vitamins C, B2, B12, E, pantothenate) |
| Brown discoloration around small joints | vitamin B12 |
| Jaundice | vitamins C, E, A, B12, B6, lecithin, magnesium, zinc (blue light therapy, treat gall bladder & liver) |
| Lemon-yellow skin | vitamin B12 |
| Shingles | vitamins B12, C, A, B, E, zinc, lysine, zinc oxide lotion, zapper |
| Swellings (for example, face) | zinc, magnesium, vitamins B6, B12 |
| Burning, sore tongue | vitamins B2, B6, B12, niacin |
| Tongue shiny, smooth, beefy; early sign: strawberry-red tip/sides | vitamin B12, folic acid |
I don't have any of these symptoms, and I am getting reluctant to take supplements because it may interfere with the body's ability to seek out the food it needs. I don't know if you remember but Archus started a thread a while back in water fasting. It referred to a Science Channel programme called "The Human Body: Pushing the Limits", episode 4, "Brain Power". It explained how people instinctively knew what to eat when they were deficient. I quote:
"First story was about a man in a raft who got carried away in the middle of Atlantic Ocean. After one week with no food he finally caught a big fish and started eating the raw fish interior. His brain told him that the real energy for the brain at that point was not protein, but vitamins and mineral, which were only in the eyes and fins of the fish. He ate the eyes and the fins to survive, which normally one would have discarded. He survived 36 days."
You can see the video in the original thread, it's the first video. I think if I stop taking supplements maybe my body will get like that, eventually.
I agree with everything you say, and especially...
" I suggest everyone learn how to plant and grow and at minimum, have an herb and spice garden with organic, non-hybrid seed, tailored for their needs."
I just did a blog entry based upon this excellent video, which I am sure you will appreciate. I already have my non hybrid seeds which I bought from here, and I plan to start doing this when I work out the best method. The gardening methods you see in the video from about 32 minutes on may surprise you. It has made me rethink my plan to dig. For the harm digging does, look at the point where they show a video clip at 25 minutes. I think I need to read a little more before I plant those seeds.