Healthy Meat - Nutritious Meat
When grassland is managed sustainably, the soil will be rich, the plants can take up everything they need. A plant will contain a rich range of nutrients that can be transferred to whatever eats them, in turn we will benefit from this in our diet as it allows us to get the nutrients we require to be healthy.
With grazing animals the principle still applies, the animals utilising the pasture will also benefit from robust health, and therefore their body will be full of all the nutrients which will be passed on to us when eating the flesh, dairy products or eggs that they produce. For example pasture reared beef when compared to grain feed beef has –
· Less overall fat
· Fewer calories
· More Omega-3 fatty acids
· A healthier ratio or omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids
· More CLA
· More vitamin E
· More beta-carotene
100% grass fed meat will not have any chemical or anti biotic residues. Our Farmers never use routine medicines and rarely have to intervene in any medical way. When animals are given enough space, and are eating what, by nature they are designed to eat, they are 100% healthy, they 'self- medicate'.
What constitutes a 'healthy diet' for Humans is a very hot topic. There is a broad spectrum of 'healthy' diets and often, those who shout the loudest about their 'right' approach, are not necessarily the healthiest, and are often using a diet to support a strongly held belief.
Don't get me wrong, this is not a criticism, anyone who has strong principles about food, is doing a hundred times better than the average member of public who indiscriminately throws food into their supermarket trolley! Some people desperately want to be vegan for all the right reasons, but are very sick from eating so much grain, pulses and the lack of essential nutrients.
Some may also assume we are anti-vegetarian or vegan, not so, we deeply respect people who believe so strongly in welfare for animals, or in trying to improve their health, that they shun our modern production systems.
We believe there is no 'one fits all' approach to good nutrition, and following years of trail and error have come up with an eating regime that suits us. In fact, we have dedicated a whole web site to it www.paleoandprimallviing.com. We think you need a holistic approach to health and that its not just about food, your state of mind and movement, has a big part to play in what is happening in your body.
The basis of our approach was to look at all the great healthy traditional cultures of the world and see what their diets had in common.
Our thoughts about modern agriculture, the food industry and its influence on what westerners are now eating led me us to question the 'science' behind the classic 'food pyramid'.
Looking back through human evolution has given us some real clues about where we started to go wrong with our health.
The main reasons eating this way improves our health
When grassland is managed sustainably, the soil will be rich, the plants can take up everything they need. A plant will contain a rich range of nutrients that can be transferred to whatever eats them, in turn we will benefit from this in our diet as it allows us to get the nutrients we require to be healthy.
With grazing animals the principle still applies, the animals utilising the pasture will also benefit from robust health, and therefore their body will be full of all the nutrients which will be passed on to us when eating the flesh, dairy products or eggs that they produce. For example pasture reared beef when compared to grain feed beef has –
· Less overall fat
· Fewer calories
· More Omega-3 fatty acids
· A healthier ratio or omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids
· More CLA
· More vitamin E
· More beta-carotene
100% grass fed meat will not have any chemical or anti biotic residues. Our Farmers never use routine medicines and rarely have to intervene in any medical way. When animals are given enough space, and are eating what, by nature they are designed to eat, they are 100% healthy, they 'self- medicate'.
What constitutes a 'healthy diet' for Humans is a very hot topic. There is a broad spectrum of 'healthy' diets and often, those who shout the loudest about their 'right' approach, are not necessarily the healthiest, and are often using a diet to support a strongly held belief.
Don't get me wrong, this is not a criticism, anyone who has strong principles about food, is doing a hundred times better than the average member of public who indiscriminately throws food into their supermarket trolley! Some people desperately want to be vegan for all the right reasons, but are very sick from eating so much grain, pulses and the lack of essential nutrients.
Some may also assume we are anti-vegetarian or vegan, not so, we deeply respect people who believe so strongly in welfare for animals, or in trying to improve their health, that they shun our modern production systems.
We believe there is no 'one fits all' approach to good nutrition, and following years of trail and error have come up with an eating regime that suits us. In fact, we have dedicated a whole web site to it www.paleoandprimallviing.com. We think you need a holistic approach to health and that its not just about food, your state of mind and movement, has a big part to play in what is happening in your body.
The basis of our approach was to look at all the great healthy traditional cultures of the world and see what their diets had in common.
Our thoughts about modern agriculture, the food industry and its influence on what westerners are now eating led me us to question the 'science' behind the classic 'food pyramid'.
Looking back through human evolution has given us some real clues about where we started to go wrong with our health.
- Eat a high volume of nutrient dense vegetables
- High quality 100% grass fed meat and sustainably caught wild fish including nutrient dense offal (correct omega balance)
- Remove sugar and all processed foods (can us small amounts of raw honey)
- Reduced or eliminate grains (any grains eaten should have low GL)
- Exercise regularly in a healthy way
- Get outside more
- Social and family interaction
The main reasons eating this way improves our health
- Carbohydrates from low glycaemic load sources to effectively manage blood sugar, weight and energy level.
- To get the maximum nutrients possible from the food we eat aiding all healing processes and bodily function.
- Reduce inflammation, the cause of many modern diseases
- Get fibre from nutrient dense sources rather than waste calories on low nutrient ‘bulk’.
- Get fats from stable sources (grass fed butter, unrefined coconut etc) and use high quality.
- unrefined monosaturated/polyunsaturated fats, do not allow these to oxidise (i.e use extra and virgin olive oil but do not cook with it, use it up quickly).
“As long as one egg looks pretty much like another, all the chickens like chicken, and beef beef, the substitution of quantity for quality will go unnoticed by most consumers, but it is becoming increasingly apparent to anyone with an electron microscope or a mass spectrometer that, truly, this is not the same food.”
― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals