Steak 'n Eggs: Good For Weight Loss?

Steak 'n eggs: Good or bad for weight loss?

What's the best way to lose weight fast and remain healthy?

There has been much hysteria pro and con the Atkins-type
weight-loss regime, with the low-cal/lo fat and portion control
camp screaming that red meat and eggs are dangerous.

In a recent weight loss study Atkins folks sponsored,
plant-based diet supporters gleefully point out that
participants were being apparently counseled "to choose
vegetarian sources of fat and protein.''

Kathy Freston, a Dean Ornish low-fat, calorie-counting
anti-meat fan girl, insists that "there's a growing shift toward
healthy, plant-based diets, especially among people looking to
lose weight and keep it off." And a shift away from meat, animal
fats and eggs, she writes.

However, low carb, meat and blubber enthusiasts show proof of
healthy weight loss and of keeping it off. Like me. Or Dr. Heidi
and her ER clientele.

What should you believe?

Both. Steak (all red meats and poultry) and eggs are like
cholesterol: There's good and there's bad. You need to know
which is good and which is bad.

Bad Meat

Most meat in U.S. supermarkets and restaurants come from
confined and un-pastured cows who are often sick. Poky's animal
'hospital' (described in Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma) is one of
many big-animal hospitals that treats feedlot cattle from
industrial feedlots. Most of the animals' health problems,
Pollan reports, are directly or indirectly related to what
they're fed.

The cows are force-fed corn and soy which they can't digest.
"They're made to eat forage, and we're making them eat grain,"
says Dr. Metzin who treats them. p. 77, Omnivore's Dilemma)

Virtually all feedlot cattle, according to animal scientists,
are sick because they cannot digest grain.

The sick animals are then shot full of antibiotics so they live
a little longer - so as to get a bit fatter before they're
slaughtered. Happy Sunday cookout.

So yes, the Dean Ornishes and Kathy Frestons are right. Eating
bad meats and fats from from such animals can NOT be good for
you. Avoid eating bad meats and fats.

Good Meat

Grass-fed animals. Grass-fed animals are pastured. [NOT
pasteurized - but pastured.] This, my omnivore friends, you CAN
eat. I do.

Grass-fed animals are allowed to forage and graze in pastures -
on grass and other stuff on the grounds. Eating what they eat
naturally. They're not shot full of antibiotics because they're
not sick.

Good meat shopping tip: When shopping for meat, ASK the meat
person: Do you have 100% grass-fed beef (or pastured chicken)?
If not, find a local farmer. They'll have grass fed beef and
poultry. Google local farmers in YOUR CITY or check for local
farmers online at Local Harvest or the Weston A Price
Foundation.

Until you find a farmer, at least get meats that have not been
fed antibiotics and hormones

Bad eggs

Same story. Don't eat the eggs from chickens that are crammed
together in spaces no bigger than an 8 and 1/2 x 11" sheet of
paper, for their entire life. Don't eat those that are fed
bio-engineered grain. Don't eat those kept awake with lights
blazing into their cages 24/7 so they can lay as many eggs as
possible before they're turned into soup. Those eggs can not be
good for you. They're available in most restaurants and
supermarkets.

Good eggs

Eat eggs from pastured chickens - they're the ones that go
OUTSIDE and scratch around on the ground at the farm, eating
grass, worms and such that they are designed to eat. NOTE: These
eggs are also a surprise source of Vitamin D. Regular eggs do
not have naturally occurring Vitamin D. See one minute Video:
Surprise source of Vitamin D.

Good eggs shopping tip: Contact your local farmer for pastured
chickens and eggs from pastured chickens. Organic is not enough
here (not if you want that extra Vitamin D benefit, says Dr.
Heidi here). See sources above.

Bottom line: Find pastured grass-fed animals. Eat those.
They're the good meat and animal fats. They have the same kind
of GOOD fats that ocean fish have, they have more minerals and
vitamins and they're not fattening or disease producing, like
the feedlot animals.

True, you won't keel over after one McDonald's hamburger. But
the cumulative effect over the years of eating bad meats and bad
animal fats weakens a body and makes it ripe for a disease to
strike. Usually when you least expect it.

P.S. I learned most of this filming an eye-and-ear popping
nutrition course Dr. Heidi Dulay taught in CA this spring. I
hope to make some of the videos available soon.

About The Author: Kim Klaver Industry consultant. Marketing
guide for Whole Food Nation, whole food multis company. Whole
Food Nation http://www.wholefoodnation.com

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