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Originally Posted by lightworker888
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Quite possibly some of this information is beef-industry propaganda. In my opinion, some of the so-called "truths" are only half truths. They take a bit of truth and blow it up into something it wasn't meant to be. Where it says, "especially healthy fats like saturated fat,"
saturated fat appears in blue letters. Click on that and you can read what they say about it.
It says breast milk contains 54% saturated fat and saturated fat plays an important role in development. Yes, it does for a baby! A baby undergoes rapid cell growth and cell construction requires saturated fat. But adults are not babies. We need
some saturated fat in our diet but not a lot like they suggest. If you use a little extra-virgin olive oil and eat some nuts daily, you will get the proper balance of fats that you need. Or, if you wish, forget about the olive oil and just enjoy the nuts.
A little
grass fed beef (3 to 4 oz serving) may be okay, but in the form of ground beef it costs about $8 per pound. And a (grass fed) steak will cost a lot more. And they talk about it being juicy. No, it's not juicy because grass fed beef is low in fat and is more likely to be tough, in my opinion. Only grain fed beef is juicy and tender.
They (the beef industry) are counting on the fact that most people will forget about the "grass-fed" part and just continue eating a lot of beef, thinking that it's healthy.