Since we knew we were going to be parents, 3 years ago, we reviewed our stance on almost everything. The food was no exception. Although
already had some attention to diet, avoiding fatty foods or too elaborate preparation (fried, stewed), started to be more careful with the intake of sugars, better hydration and think twice before succumbing to the temptation;)
However, having already the notion that too much meat to eat our daily nutritional requirements (just see the Portuguese diet common in homes 50 years ago, much more geared to the vegetables and fish), and taking into account the resources that are spent to produce a kilo of meat (usually full of antibiotics, toxins, etc.): see the movie Food, Inc, I have been changing our eating plan family. After spending a week eating lacto-ovo vegetarian meals last August (each one better than the other, by the way!) And have learned many recipes in order to vary the ingredients, flavors and nutrients we eat, gave us sense to change our food this sense, for our health * (since we eat more calories than those who spend), the sustainability of the planet and also for ethics (there are other animals that we eat).
thus ceased to consume as much processed food, avoid transgenic and refined foods (flour, sugar), chocolate, cream of animal origin, etc.. I read a book Francisco Varatojo and everything seemed to make sense: we have longer intestines than carnivorous mammals so that the meat rots in there before you get to be excreted, we have dedicated more teeth to chew than the tear which indicates that we are more prepared to eat cereal ... Just found it strange to reference so many foods that are not native (he learned from the Japanese school), because it would make sense was that the body was prepared for more foods that are here and we're already accustomed to consuming several millennia .. .
Therefore we started to eat more fish, more vegetables and whole grains, reduced drastically the amount of red meat (and even white, encircled to birds, and often organic production or under the open field) and we started to notice positive changes in our metabolism, we continued with energy, more regularity in the toilet, his breath has improved, reduced cholesterol, decreased weight, etc ...
Until I went to do blood tests and came across a strong anemia. Yes, I know it can have other causes and that the culprit is not just the food. But after talking with several doctors and specialists, they recommended me to go back to eating red meat. And Fe supplements? "I said. Apparently (search the site Dr. Mercola ), iron supplements are not easily assimilated by our body, it reduces our capacity to assimilate (Fe exists in such abundance that the body does not need to strive to assimilate and even worse) and the unbalanced ratio of other minerals in our blood, including that the Zn is in inverse correlation with Fe Apart from the fact that, okay, it works while we are taking, but after awhile, if the root problem persists, hemoglobin levels back down ... Outside
anemia, meat consumption has also been recommended to me because Weston A. Price Foundation, supposedly (read this article) a suitable foundation research in nutrition has analyzed data on moderate consumption of meat of good quality and have found that 1) the Fe present in the flesh is very well assimilated by our body and 2) the fat of animal origin (meat, butter) are more similar to our so our body can excrete the simple form, and 3) the most controversial: that high cholesterol is not associated with, such as medicine seems to affirm the highest risk of atherosclerosis (ok, even here I suspect) .. .
I was also told (I think they are also the conclusions WAPF) that he tried not to involve the carbohydrate to meat consumption because that is what makes the body absorb fats and that we are not prepared to digest their own grains, needing to process the animals for us.
Damn, this is difficult. And now? Veggie veggie or not?
I come from a lineage of families who were omnivorous, and possibly my body, at least at this point, I need to be well. Never had that feeling of rejection that some people report when they say they stopped eating meat for a long time, so I went back to eating more meat. I know that's not much, but we always try to buy organic (in respect to animals and to safeguard our nutrition) and before eating, always thank the animal that was sacrificed so that I can benefit from their nutrients. It may be that when you stop breastfeeding and discover the causality of my anemia, can change my eating habits again ... We get
the human diet in Western societies abuses in consumption of meat and animal products. So we reduce. Now realize that there is a business that profits through the exploitation of animals, producing them, creating them and killing them in unsuitable conditions and the cost of depleting and polluting soil and water. Therefore we prefer, when we consume products and certified organic source. Even the UN has come rule on reducing consumption of animal products for all these reasons (note that this video is a manipulation of information on title and final part, which says that the UN recommends that "the population world to become Vegan and stop consuming animal products, "when in fact they only warn of excessive consumption and the reduction thereof)
realized that there should be fundamentalisms: usually in the middle is what is virtue, and every metabolism is unique and may vary throughout the various stages of life, so there must be an awareness that you may need an adjustment, depending on the nutritional needs of the moment.
* taking into account the "dogmas" of that the meat has toxins, fat and low nutritional values \u200b\u200b
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