Why Buying Elk Steaks Online Is Good For Your Health

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By Olive Pate


Amercans are becoming increasingly better educated about healthy eating. We are slowly easing fats and sugars out of our diets, juicing our hearts out and crafting our fatty acid ratio into a healty omega-3:omega-6 ratio into a healthy 6 to 3. Now, the experts are telling us, we should be eating more grass-fed meat, as opposed to meat from cattle that has been raised on grain, and looking toward elk steaks online as the route to a healthier, more productive lifestyle.

Underpinning the Paleo Diet is the assumption that the human digestive system had evolved to suit a hunter-gatherer diet. The digestive enzymes necessary to metabolize dairy products and grains had not yet evolved nor, apparently, have they to date. The human diet has evolved faster than its digestive system.

You can't tell by looking at them, even when they are standing right up next to each other in front of you. The proteins in one are certainly similar to those in the other; these have been genetically programmed. What is different, however, is their complement of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA). Grass-fed meat has powerful ethical, health and environmental reasons for being selected over mass produced meat from cereal consumers.

Omega-6 and omega-3 are two essential fatty acids (EFAs). They are called "essential" because the are crucial for humans to function, but we cannot manufacture them within the body; they have to be ingested as part of the diet. While both are necessary for human function, the healthy ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 is three to one. In cattle that are fed grain, this ratio is 20 to 1. Omega-3 EFAs help maintain good cellular health and prevent so-called Western diseases like arthritis, cancer, coronary artery disease, cancer, hypertension and others.

Grass-fed beef is leaner than grain-fed. Omega-3s make up seven percent of the total fatty acid content in cows raised on pasture but only one percent in grain-fed animals. Grass-fed meat has stacks of other important vitamins, antioxidants and minerals.

Sheep, cows and deer can take the nutrients in grass and make them palatable and digestible for human consumption. Human metabolism lacks the necessary enzymes. Eating meat from these helpful animals helps ensure we get the widest selection of nutrients that we require, not just to stay alive, but to live healthily, productively and happily.

There are ethical reasons to choose grass over grain. Animals obtain the grass they eat by being raised on acres and acres of open pasture, where they have the freedom to roam wherever they choose. Grain-eating animals are forced to live in confined areas known as CAFO, or confined animal feed lots. Because they are crammed so close together, CAFO-dwelling cattle get more bacterial infections. Why should you worry about a cow with a cold? Infected hamburger meat can kill you.

Elk meat is naturally low in fats and cholesterol and rich in protein. The meat is dark and red in color. Because it has a strong, beefy flavor of its own and because it is naturally tender, it does not need to be marinated before cooking.




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