Posted on 01/14/2025 5:00:50 AM PST by LouAvul
A chef (Gordon Ramsey?) had a video where he's preparing the perfect hamburger. He made the statement that he only eats red meat twice a week so that he can indulge in ground beef.
What say ye? Red meat is unsafe if eaten more than twice a week? Three times a week?
Enquiring minds want to know what Freepers think.
3 times a day is about right.
“Meat sweats.”
You can find whole beef tenderloin on sale for around $9.50 or so, and it doesn’t take long to cut it yourself, package it, freeze it. You can even quarter it and have them as tenderloin roasts and cut it later at the table, but I prefer cooking the steaks to the perfect temp on the stove top.
A good sharp knife handles the silverskin well- and only takes a few minutes to remove it.
I do wanna try tritip steak and pecuna (sp?), but really, the whole tenderloins are great, tender, don’t cost an arm and a leg like filet of mignon does, and is just as tender as mignon in my opinion. Just gotta buy them when they go on sale and stock up while supplies last
Never more than every meal.
Don’t ask how many meals per day.
We eat beef at least 3 days per week. No plans to cut back. 😏
You can eat as much grass-fed beef as you want. Just keep the carbs low.
I think that’s more of a blood work decision than anything. If you’re already high in iron or cholesterol less is good for you. Of course there’s also the question of how much red meat is he eating twice a week? Is this a half pound hamburger or a quarter pound hamburger? a 2 pound steak twice a week is a lot of red meat.
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I love a good steak, burger or a delicious roast beef, but I don’t eat them everyday. My wife and I are eating more chicken and even enjoy Indian vegan dishes. It’s all about moderation and having a varied diet and personal taste .
Why take dietary advice from a chef, i.e. cook? Ramsey, aka the screamer, is not a dietician.
I am not a dietician but I would think the more important question to ask is what does a person eat in addition to good, clean, locally raised beef? Does the daily diet consist of soda, carbs throughout the day, lots of chips and fried foods, ending the day with dessert (sugar)? If so, then it doesn’t matter if you eat beef or not, nor how much beef, you’re abusing your body with crap, constantly, and at some point it will fall apart.
The easiest way to check if it is unhealthy is to look at people on the Carnivore diet for years. Are they sick? If not, then eating all meat is healthy enough.
Do carnivores have heart problems? High rates of cancer? Diabetes? Does their performance in sports take a nose dive after going carnivore?
If not, then eating large amounts of meat is FINE!
Including moderation! Sometimes you have to cut loose. As I did over Christmas & New Years. :-)
Is that even possible?
Most folks eat those feed-lot cows. They’re not as healthy for you as grass-fed. They feed them up to get more weight ($) but lose the health benefit.
I like my meat red with a custy black char topside.
And I like my meat rare. With band-aids and iodine, that cow will live to give again!
Look at your vitamin pills. Like most other foods (bread) it has iron.
Buy only pills for seniors, no iron.
I recall a Canadian study of years ago. Showed (not suspected, showed) that excess iron kinda fertilizes the bacteria that live in your blood vessel walls — buggies are everywhere. Once the smallest amount of plaque forms (plaque is everywhere, get an Xray at 40 years old) the bacteria move under the plaque away from most of the bug-hunters. Iron in the blood causes the bacteria to grow exponentially — causing inflammation and vessel closure. This is how red meat is linked to heart disease.
Kill the bugs and closed arteries go away.
Only eat red meat twice a week. The other days, eat bacon.
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