Posted on 09/13/2019 8:13:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Back in the 50s, french fries tasted a lot better than now.
They were fried in lard.
Now they use vegetable oil because it’s much “healthier”.
Gary Taubes, in “Good Calories, Bad Calories,” nailed this several years ago.
Grass Fed beef had a different Omega-3 to Omega-6 profile.
Go into the grocery store, and if the fat on the beef steak is hard and white as paper, that is grain fed and the fats are not good for you. If the fat is semi-cloudy white and softer to the touch, it’s grass fed, and the O3 to O6 ratio reflects it.
The studies about beef being bad - are done with the “hard fat” variety. Grass fed beef is as healthy or healthier than the fat in avacados.
Thanks, I didn’t know that.
OMG - next they’re gonna tell me to stop eating high fructose corn syrup ...
Isolating a variable does not always produce valuable information, and it can promote misleading studies.
What are animal fats? From which animal? Was it grass fed or not?
What are vegetable fats? From which plant? Was it whole and fresh, with its natural antioxiadants, or was it denuded, and rancid? Was it rich in Essential Fatty Acids or not?
this also helps to spot when somebody labels something grass-fed when it’s not. If the fat is hard, and white - nope, it’s not grass fed.
I am the 6th generation of cattle ranchers - I left the ranch and went to university and am a Computer Science guy. But I know more about beef than most folks.
Also, the beef you buy in the grocery store (or even the expensive steakhouse) is CRAP. You want at young heifer of about 1600-1700 lbs grass fed and take her to the slaughter house, and get it cut and wrapped to your specs.....The mass market (where the grocery store and the steakhouse buy their beef) is trying to get he max LBS per head - so it’s not a tender!!!!!
The way to a healthy heart is to run.
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