Biochemical Balance & Sufficiency

Grass Fed Meat: our true environmental saviour

Chef Carl Schroeder on Grass Fed Beef.

A new Grass Fed Burger Joint opens in Milwaukee!

No E. Coli or Mad Cow Disease in Grass Fed Beef

Grass Fed Beef Vs Chicken – Which Protein is Best to Build Muscle?

Is Grass Fed Beef Better for you?

An interesting (and beautifully made) video on Brazilian Grass Fed Beef:

Another video: Braised (Grass Fed) Crossrib recipe
From the video maker’s description:“Karly and I get all our meat from the Holding Ranch booth at the San Mateo Farmer’s Market. It’s grass fed, pastured, humanely raised, and worth every penny. Grass fed beef is better for you because it’s lower in fat, especially saturated fat. The rotational grazing practices that Holding Ranch uses require fewer inputs than industrialized methods, so it’s better for the environment too.”

And, finally,  from our favorite supplier of Grass Fed Beef (and many other wonderful, healthful products!) US Wellness Meats:

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We begin with a raw milk roundup:

This kind of thinking is the problem. We are not in the least surprised the author also supports vaccines and fluoridation.

“Pasteurized milk was necessary, according to Heckman, before scientists learned what contaminated milk. The problem was not the cow, but the farmer. “The poor quality of the milk was the result of the farmer contaminating it with his (unclean) hands,” he said. Anything can be contaminated with improper handling. “The problem is not the food product, it’s how the product is handled,” he said.

Raw  Milk: Health  Secret or Russian Roulette?

Raw milk is a complete and balanced food.

In 2003 the FDA & FSIS determined that deli meats pose greater listeriosis risk than raw milk.

Finally! Raw Milk Information You Can Trust!

MORE raw milk information you can trust (this is a bit old but bears repeating).

“A study has just  come showing that although the French spend two hours eating each day – roughly twice as long as we do – they’re among the slimmest of the 18 nations in the study. Americans were the fattest, with more than 1 in 3 Americans qualifing as obese.” Read the rest at Civil Eats.

Michael Pollan: Don’t buy any food you’ve ever seen advertised.  Read more...

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Sean Croxton, owner of Underground Wellness, fitness trainer, health guru and and radio show host, launches a blistering YouTube attack on Oprah Winfrey and KFC for their recent free chicken escapade.

In fact, Sean is not the only person who is angry. Oprah, has caused a LOT of anger out there ranging from animal rights activists here to a civil rights era-style protest here; a letter to the editor writer who was told by a KFC clerk that the reason Oprah was giving away the free coupons was to promote the company since she was a major stockholder, here and, well, this whole thing has just really turned into an “Oprah-size debacle”, here.

But Sean’s anger has to do with some real health related issues. A selection of of his choice words in the video:

“Oprah has earned our trust to the point that we will listen to her diet and health information even when she can’t keep her own weight in check.”

“Oprah must have really ‘unthunk’ when she decided to run this campaign.”

“KFC doesn’t want you to think at all. First of all, KFC, you will always be Kentucky Fried Chicken.  You will always be fast food, you will always serve people sick chickens and you know darn well you cannot get health a sick animal.”  Read more...

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Many of us swear by the daily consuming of raw milk and other raw dairy products as part of a real food for real health lifestyle. It may be news to some that raw milk can have not only a generally supportive role in good health but used in a certain way can have a VERY powerful curative effect on disease.

********** July 29, 2009: A NEW post on this subject has been added: The Milk Diet: A Physician’s Experience With Real Healing. It contains a great deal of additional information. When you have finished the post on this page, I urge you to read it.

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This was known by medical doctors in the 19th and early 20th centuries ( see here and here for two examples) but forgotten with the coming of both pateurization and the pharmaceutical industry. I have some personal experience with a modified mlk diet regime as a teenager (my before and after photos are here) when my life was saved by nutritional scientist Rheo Blair who himself got his start when as a sickly young man he turned his life around with the milk cure (see here).  Read more...

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The New York Times is running a front page headlined debate between three people under the title Food Safety For People Who Don’t Cook. It features Douglas Powell, Ann Cooper and Walter Olson. The story begins: “For most consumers, reheating a frozen pot pie or pizza is a matter of taste, not food safety. But with outbreaks of foodborne illnesses, makers of processed foods are now relying on consumers to follow specific, sometimes inconvenient instructions to kill pathogens in convenience foods.”

So we are talking pathogen perils here, not nutritional perils. We would love to see the NYT produce a story on why processed foods are nutritionally perilous with or without pathogens! But, this is a start and the present item makes for interesting reading with some lengthy followup comments. Read it here.

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Codex Alimentarius: The disintegration of food?

Ways to use Raw Milk — Kelly the Kitchen Kop has a collection of great ideas.

Let’s not pasteurize our food freedoms  — The Bovine explains.

Thoughts on pasteurization and homogenation; one mother’s thoughts.

Organic and thrifty presents an entire one week menu of low carb AND grain free eating. Doesn’t get much better!

Calcium from dairy sources increases fat loss.

Swine Flu Swindle: Mass Vaccination

Human noses too cold for Bird Flu.

Are Low GI food anti-aging?

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