Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: Re: [fast5] Re: Back to IF -- I think

I'm curious though. Why the emphasis on beef? If you look at the world cuisines, the ones that focus on fish and eggs, produce the healthiest people. Historically, humans mostly lived by the sea and ate a lot of fish. Today, people who eat more fish are smarter and healthier. The sialic profile is better too, in fish and eggs. French and Italians and Japanese that eat more fish ... are healthier. And yet the health gurus focus on beef?

I do get grass-fed beef, btw. By the cow. So I'm not anti-beef by a long shot. It's just that the fish and eggs seem to work better. I'm trying to figure out why.

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:01 PM, RickS <no3rdseat@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Barnaby-

I tend to stock my freezer with grass fed beef from a local rancher. I've had several e-mail exchanges with Professor Peskin and he says as long as some of my meat is raw (inside) I'm getting all of the omega 3's and unadultrated omega 6's I need. Though heat does easily damage O6. But on the days I cook ground beef, I usually use 2 tsp cold pressed, organic, raw, safflower or hemp oil for the O6 and 1 tsp cold pressed, organic, raw flax seed oil. I get them from the local Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, or my local co-op. They have to be cold pressed, raw, and organic- generally in the refrigerated section. Whole Food's 365 brand is usually pretty good and not too expensive. On days when I can't stand the thought of choking down the hemp seed oil and I eat a bowl of fully cooked ground beef, I have a small supply of raw, organic pumkin seeds. Ten grams of raw pumkin seeds can provide the O6 and O3 that you need for a full day. One page I read that sort of lays it out pretty concisely can be found here:

http://www.greenhealthwatch.com/newsstories/newslatest/latest0701/omega-3-overdosing.html

"If you want to get your PEFAs from food, (liquids) five grams of organic, cold-pressed, high linoleic sesame oil plus two grams of organic, cold-pressed flaxseed oil a day, or (solids) 10gm of raw, organic pumpkin seeds a day should do the job. "

-Rick

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "barnabywalker" <barnabywalker@...> wrote:
>
> I appreciate the info provided by Rick regarding his experimentations.
>
> I had read the earlier Peskin work because I was interested with Omega 3 and it's benefits regarding dementia as i take care of my 80 plus year old parents. At my Mom's neurologist today, I asked him if he had any other ideas of non-prescription item which could help them, as the earlier recommendation of St. John's wort (anti-depressant) had been a great help for an inexpensive herbal product. He recommended that I give them a T of coconut oil every day and seemed to be very enlightened to recommend something beyond the the pricey alzheimer's drugs of Namenda and Exelon Patch and then gave me 5 weeks of Patch samples.
>
> The Dr. said, "they can't make money off of coconut oil", which I took as stating the pricey Alzheimr's drugs probably weren't much more effective than the $8 /quart coconut oil I get at Kroger's.
>
> After reading Peskin' warning about fish oil, I wonder where Rick is sourcing his Hemp oil, Pumpkin seed oil, as Omega 3 supplements?
>
> I continue to be a big fan of fasting combined with low carb to keep insulin levels low as suggested by Gary Taubes.
> A very good article:
> http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/06/why-the-campaign-to-stop-america-s-obesity-crisis-keeps-failing.html
>
> Barnaby
>
>
> --- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "RickS" <no3rdseat@> wrote:
> >
> > I'm glad you don't take fish oil. If you have some time, here's why:
> >
> > http://www.brianpeskin.com/BP.com/publications/2011-Fish%20Oil%20Fallacies.pdf
> >
> > -Rick
>
> > >
> > > No, I don't currently take fish oil supplements, but that's a good suggestion. I do take coconut oil.
> > >
> > > Susie
> > >
>

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