HEALTH
When you consume the
meat of an animal that
has been allowed to
forage naturally, you can
get as much omega-3
per gram as you would
find in say, wild-caught
salmon. It’s really where
we got all of the essential
fatty acids that were
responsible for building
the enormous brain that
we humans uniquely
have as a species.
Insulin will try to put the sugar into your cells initially for that burst of energy if you need it, and
then it will try to store a little bit of it as glycogen
in your muscles and in your liver. We can only store
maybe 2,000 calories worth of that at a time, and
then all the rest of it is going to go right to your liver
to be converted into triglycerides which are blood
fats, and then stored in places you probably rather
not have it.
fed nothing but grains/legumes (corn, soy, etc) for
the weeks prior to slaughter are actually extremely high in omega 6’s, and may have no omega 3’s
whatsoever. Omega 6s (unbalanced by insufficient
omega-3’s) are far more likely to be inflammatory
in effect.
When you consume the meat of an animal that has
been allowed to forage naturally, you can get as
much omega-3 per gram as you would find in say,
wild-caught salmon. It’s really where we got all
of the essential fatty acids that were responsible
for building the enormous brain that we humans
uniquely have as a species. It was our taste for fat
that caused our brains to evolve so rapidly. It’s unprecedented in the natural world. In a matter of a
couple of hundred thousand years, our brain size
absolutely mushroomed into this enormous and
sophisticated organ that’s quite unprecedented.
All the evidence seems to point to the fact that it
was due to our sophisticated ability to hunt and
develop tools that could crack open the femurs
of the animals that we hunted and the brain casings to get at the fat-rich nourishment contained
in them.
Miriam: Really, our evolution in terms of our metabolism was set during a very long period, and it’s
only recently, in agricultural times, and particularly very recently since industrial farming took place,
that we have put it totally off balance.
Nora: Yes, completely. We’ve literally spent more
than 100,000 generations as an evolving species
as hunter-gatherers--and primarily hunters. We
actually had a very strong dietary preference for
Miriam: Are you suggesting that a diet based on
good fats would not be causing weight gain?
Nora: Right. But there is a caveat or two. First we
need to define “good fats”, and then we need to figure out what else your diet consists of. I consider
“good fats” to be anything that we would be genetically adapted to consuming. In other words, dietary fat from animals that were fed a diet that was
natural to them, like natural forage and fresh green
grass – not grains, not the other crap that they try
to feed animals in feedlots.
Unfortunately, 97 percent of the meat produced
in this country is produced with factory farming
methods and confined animal or feed lot operations. That is not an especially healthy source of
natural fat. The fats from animals that have been
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97 percent of the meat
produced in this country
is produced with factory
farming methods and
confined animal or feed lot
operations. That is not an
especially healthy source of
natural fat.