The more I learn about eating red meat the more questions I have. Turns out that the studies which pooh pooh it (in terms of heart disease and colon cancer) come from the North and are most probably based on factory farmed beef. While we here in the Andes consume free range beef, which should be quite high in Omega 3. Anyway, a proper article of mine (sorry, only in Spanish) can be found on the website: www.ecuador.nutrinet.org
On the other hand, corn-raised chickens tend to be fed full of hormones here. Thus wouldn’t it be better to eat free range red meat as opposed to hormone filled white meat, given the production techniques in the Andes?
I’d love to hear your comments because as a nutritionist who grapples with how to proceed in countries with a dearth of research, I’d love to turn these ideas around and see what others are thinking, what others are recommending.
Posted by: michellefried in Nutrition, diet, health, meat
August 22nd, 2010 at 12:23 am
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