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Beef CLA Omega 3
One of the good health aphorisms of the 21st century is, “Don’t eat beef.” Even though beef is the Westerner’s favorite meat, concerns about bacterial contamination and saturated fats are convincing people to reconsider how much beef they want to eat. Many people are avoiding beef and either eating more fowl and other meats, or going vegetarian.
What if we’re wrong, though? What if beef is actually good for you? We won’t discuss bacterial contamination here; it’s a topic more suitable for a discussion of the meat packing industry. Beef can, however, be good for you—if you get the right beef. Grass fed beef with CLA and Omega 3 is good for you.
A hundred years ago, cattle were raised on pasture. The great cattle round-ups of the late 19th century happened when ranchers and their help would go out and bring the cattle in off the pasture for branding and marketing.
Since then, cattle ranching has become a different kind of industry. Cattle are raised in barns and fed precisely formulated diets. They receive antibiotics to prevent infection and contamination of the meat, and they receive growth hormones to make them put on muscle quickly. Cattle ranching means getting the animals as large as possible as quickly as possible in order to bring the highest possible price at market.
By bringing the cattle inside and changing their feed, however, we also changed the nutritional content of beef. Beef became high in saturated fats and low in polyunsaturated fats.
Saturated fats are implicated in human heart disease, so beef became “bad heart food.”
Recent nutritional discoveries have caused ranchers to take another look at those cattle raising practices. Raised the old way, beef has CLA, Omega 3 and other vital nutrients which are all part of a “ healthy heart diet.”
CLA
CLA, or conjugated linoleic acid, is a substance that is naturally found in beef. It is an essential nutrient for people, and we cannot manufacture it for ourselves. CLA is anticarcinogenic. It also seems to decrease atherosclerosis, lower LDL and triglycerides, normalize blood sugar and improve immune function. There are some indications that CLA helps build lean muscle mass and decrease fat storage, and it has become a popular weight loss/muscle building supplement.
Grain fed beef has some CLA. Pasture raised or pasture finished beef has three to five times as much. Grass fed beef is an excellent source of this important nutrient.
Omega 3
Omega 3’s are nearly absent in grain-fed beef. Pasture-fed beef, however, has about the same amount of omega 3 as fish. Pasture fed beef has twice the omega 6 fatty acids and four times the omega 3 fatty acids as grain fed beef. The omega 6:3 ratio in pasture fed beef is a healthy 2:1.
Grass fed beef is also higher in vitamin E and some other nutrients than grain fed beef.
Pasture or grass fed beef may be either pasture raised or pasture finished. Pasture raised beef eats grass and hay for its entire life. Pasture finished beef eats grass for 130 days before slaughter. Both are good sources of essential nutrients, but some nutrients are the highest in pasture raised beef.
Beef can be good for you. Grass fed beef is low in saturated fat and contains essential nutrients. The Westerner’s favorite meat can be the healthiest one, too. | | |
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