Learning how to eat in a truly healthy way requires gaining knowledge beyond what you learned in school, from food commercials and from product gimmicks. But gaining that knowledge can be overwhelming. I've received several requests recently from those who want to start eating a more natural, healthy diet, but don't know where or how to start. This has prompted me to write a series of posts that I will call Health 101.
Today we will start with meat and dairy. This is the food category that I believe can make you the most sick if you are careless about what you eat. Meat is loaded with antibiotics (thanks to the foul and disgusting living conditions of the animals). When you eat that meat, those antibiotics transfer to you and your family, causing a greater resistance to antibiotics in your own body. I believe that most Americans use FAR TOO MANY antibiotics, which is dangerous on many levels. Then they add to that the antibiotics in the meat. Then when they get dangerously ill and need an antibiotic, they don’t understand why it isn’t effective. Their body has built up a resistance to it.
Meat is loaded with growth hormones. Farmers make more money when there is more meat. The disgusting living conditions are not conducive to proper growth, so a growth hormone is necessary to maximize the farmer’s profit. These hormones produce great havoc in the human endocrine system. It is heartbreaking to hear of young girls developing breasts and beginning their menstrual cycles long before age ten (which I think is still young), thanks to the growth hormones they consume in their meat and dairy on a regular basis.
In addition to these toxic chemical substances, these animals are fed nasty food that does not belong in the food chain. It is not unheard of to find ground up animal parts in the feed. This produces such health problems in herds as “mad cow disease”. Speaking of beef specifically… cows are ruminants, which means that they eat foods that must go through an extensive digestive process. God designed them with 4 stomachs to accomplish this job. They primarily thrive off of grass and other such vegetation. Corn is NOT a natural food for cows. But the majority of beef in your supermarket comes from corn-fed cows. This creates an inferior meat, a meat that is insufficient in the nutrients it OUGHT to have, etc. It also produces a sick animal… back to the antibiotics and other meds that go right into their meat.
It should be obvious that dairy products contain these same properties (the antibiotics, hormones, etc.). If you choose to consume dairy products, the BEST choice is goat products. Goats only have one stomach, just like us, and their milk is much easier on our digestive systems. In fact, many people who are allergic to cow milk can easily tolerate goat milk. Goat milk has an acquired taste. And it is much more expensive. If you are going to choose cow dairy products, there are a few things you should do your best to look for. Raw milk is the best choice, but many states have outlawed the sale of it, unfortunately. The next best thing is to look for unhomogenized milk.
I buy a milk at Trader Joe’s that’s called Cream on Top (it is not homogenized). Homogenized milk is put in a machine and spun at dizzying speeds in order to separate the milk molecules. The forces the milk and cream to remain combined, thus not allowing the cream to rise to the top. The problem is that the milk molecules are now so small that they are able to permeate through your stomach, intestines, and blood vessels. This is one of the primary causes of scarring in the arteries. When the arteries are scarred, cholesterol has a place to hang on. When arteries are smooth and healthy, cholesterol has no place to lodge, even if your cholesterol levels are high, and it will have no negative effect on you. So do yourself a favor and stop drinking homogenized milk! It’s much more difficult to avoid pasteurized milk, due to the laws in most states. But if you are able to find raw milk, grab it!
The same goes for your cheese, yogurt, sour cream, etc.
The very best starting point, if you are overwhelmed, is to start with ORGANIC meat and dairy products. From there, begin your search for unhomogenized dairy products.
If you are having a hard time finding organic meat, at the very least look for something that is labeled “no hormones, no antibiotics ever”. Oftentimes, those meat products are organic, but the company hasn’t had the funds to get organic certification. Sometimes, though, it’s not labeled organic because of the feed the animal received.
While on the subject of meat, my husband and I have made the firm decision to honor God’s instructions in the Scriptures pertaining to clean and unclean meat. Although both of us were raised to believe that God’s dietary laws no longer pertain to us today, we honestly do not find anything in Scripture to support that. We also see that God knew what He was talking about when He categorized animals as clean and unclean. As the Creator of all things, He has all wisdom about what He created. Our modern science is now able to help us understand what makes the unclean animals “unclean”. Modern science has shown that these animals were truly not designed for the purpose of being food. The overwhelming majority of these unclean animals are actually the “vacuum cleaners” of the earth. Pigs, birds of prey, all cats, shellfish, etc. They all clean up the dead and diseased filth of the earth. Those disgusting things that they consume go straight to their meat. God did not design them to filter out those toxins, but rather to take those toxins into their meat in order to clean the earth. This poses a HUGE health risk for humans who consume their meat!
In fact, if you want some scientific evidence for never eating pork again (or any of the myriad ingredients that are derived from pork), do a short bit of research online on the trichinella parasite. It is widely prevalent in pork (but also other “unclean” animals that aren’t so popular in the USA).
There are so many good “clean” animals to eat that I have little complaint about giving up the nasty, putrid unclean meats that make so many people so sick. If we want hotdogs (which are a rare “treat”), we buy the Hebrew National brand because we know we can trust what kind of meat is in it. If we want bacon, we buy turkey bacon. I know it’s not the same, but sometimes you really need it for a favorite recipe, mostly for the flavor. Make sure it has not nitrates or nitrites (toxic). If we want sausage, we have found many kinds of chicken sausages that are absolutely delicious!!!! I just make sure that they do not have pork casings.
CLICK HERE to view a list of clean and unclean animals.
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