Subversive Health

Cows grazing on grass -- just like the old days

Aloha!

Nothing strange about cows eating grass, is there? Well, yes, in America cows only start on grass and then they are shipped to feedlots and fed grain. Why is that? So they can be turned into money more quickly. Why should I care? Because grain-fed cows produce meat filled with SLOW fat (known as omega 6).  That fat leads to inflammation, and lots of health problems.  Yeah, but that meat is cheaper. Not that much cheaper — especially if you buy it in bulk. Look, you can’t be serious about grain-fed beef being bad for us. America is the best country in the world. We have the best of everything! Yes, that is part of the problem. America is great at production. After World War II we turned our military industrial complex to the job of producing food. They even turned explosive components like nitrogen into fertilizer and we set out to feed the world — thus producing such cheap grain we could feed it to cows. SO? What’s the problem? Before, science didn’t know much about the various kinds of fats. Now we do. Now we know that humans NEED A LOT OF FAST FATS (known as omega 3).  Oh, right, fish oil. I take one or two of those pills! That’s good. But, not nearly good enough.  Try reading this article.  “The ‘treatment dose’ is 300 mg combined DHA-EPA for each 10 pounds of actual body weight, for both children and adults. Typical 1,000 mg fish oil soft gels contain about 180 mg EPA and 120 DHA, 300 mg combined in each. 180 pounds would take 18 gels, 150 pounds 15 gels. If using the Trader Joe Omega-3, more concentrated containing 500 mg of the DHA-EPA combined in each soft gel, use 1 for each 15 pounds of body weight.”

That article has more information that most of us can bear  — so I just pulled out the amount of omega 3 fat needed to help our bodies repair themselves.  Try it. Give it 10 days for eyes and over a month for other parts. Now I am down to take my cod liver oil.  I buy peach flavored.