How Can Steak and Bacon Be Weight Loss Foods?
People have this strange concept that weight loss foods must all be tasteless and boring. In fact, there is no reason that it has to be that way. Weight loss foods can be tasty, satisfying and, yes, they can include steak and bacon–if they are the right kind of steak and bacon. Good Weight Loss Foods Begin with Good Farming The first thing you need to know about any meat that you eat is that the way it is raised has a tremendous impact on how it ends up. If you raise beef on a feed lot you do end up with a bigger animal more quickly. But you also have an animal that is much higher in fat, has fewer useful nutrients and has been subjected to regular antibiotic use and growth hormone injections. Those hormone injections have been connected to low sperm count in men and increasingly early menarch– the onset of puberty in girls. We now have girls hitting menarche at age 7 and infertility is a rising problem with men. If those were the only reasons to avoid commercially farmed meat it wou
