Free range animals live and eat as they were designed to. Commercially raised animals are fed wheat and corn among other things to quickly make them fat, but their diets often make them sick and decrease the quality of the protein in their meat. If you want to be healthy you should eat right and exercise, the same thing should apply to the meat we eat, if you eat meat from animals that didn’t eat their natural diet and get enough exercise you cant expect the meat to be good for you.
Like meat, eggs are only as good as the animal they come from, and the environment the live in. Chickens that live a natural life produce an egg that provides a great and balanced source of proteins and good dietary fats, as the chickens are much healthier in comparison just like you when you are active.
In the 80′s eggs were said to be bad as they contained dangerously high levels of cholesterol. What they didn’t understand is cholesterol is a necessary building block for the cells of your body, and dangerous cholesterol is created by the body in response to stress.
Eggs from birds that have been cage raised contain an unfavourable ratio of omega 3 to 6 while free range eggs are much closer to the ideal ratio. A dietary imbalance between omega 3 and 6 fatty acids produces inflammation in the body, with alcohol, drugs, stress and food additives also causing inflammation in the gut, the body has a significantly higher need to produce bad fats in the body.
Action points for today
- Switch to free range eggs (organic where possible)
- Eat a variety of different types of meats
- Look to eat meat from animals that lived naturally, were fed grass and got enough exercise (free range)
Our Nutrition and Lifestyle programs are designed to seek out areas that could be enhanced to give you better results from your exercise program, help you get more energy, control your weight, and increase the performance of your body.
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