{"id":513192,"date":"2010-04-04T14:21:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T18:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f20\/tale-two-beefs-41822\/"},"modified":"2010-04-04T14:21:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T18:21:45","slug":"a-tale-of-two-beefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/513192","title":{"rendered":"A tale of two beefs"},"content":{"rendered":"
A tale of two beefs<\/p>\n

<\/b>Beef should be at the heart of your diet — but if you’re chowing down on the typical supermarket cuts of meat, you’re missing out, big-time.<\/p>\n

That cow’s diet is just as important as your own — but instead of grazing on natural grass, most animals today are force-fed the farmyard equivalent of junk food: grain. And now, a new study shows what’s missing from your meals when you settle for that lesser of two meats.<\/p>\n

Researchers looked at 30 years of data on the two types of beef, and found the grass-fed cows produced meats packed with healthier fats and more nutrients.<\/p>\n

No surprise there — if you’ve been reading my newsletters, you learned all this years ago. But most consumers think beef is beef… and just load up on the weekly special.<\/p>\n

Big mistake.<\/p>\n

The researchers from the California State University in Chico found that grass-fed beef had healthier fats of higher quality, higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids, more of vitamins A and E, and higher levels of antioxidants.<\/p>\n

The study also found grass-fed beef had double the levels of conjugated linoleic acid. CLA — not to be confused with the ordinary linoleic acid found in junk food
\n— has been linked to weight loss, a lower risk of diabetes and may even help fight cancer.<\/p>\n

The meat from grain-fed cows, on the other hand… well, at least that stuff’s cheaper, which is why it’s always on sale. But you shouldn’t eat grain-fed beef if someone pays you (unless that person’s a vegan, then eat it anyway just to spite him).<\/p>\n

Grain-fed cows don’t just produce inferior meat. They’re also pumped full of hormones and antibiotics before being trucked off to massive, filthy slaughterhouses where germs and disease-causing bacteria are routinely packed with the meat.<\/p>\n

So when it comes to what’s on your table, don’t go for weekly specials… visit a good butcher for the best, fattiest cuts of steak from grass-fed cows raised on small farms.<\/p>\n

It’s not just better for you — it tastes better, too.<\/p>\n

Sharing my beef with factory meats,<\/p>\n

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A tale of two beefs Beef should be at the heart of your diet — but if you’re chowing down on the typical supermarket cuts of meat, you’re missing out, big-time. That cow’s diet is just as important as your own — but instead of grazing on natural grass, most animals today are force-fed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}