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The New York Times recently published an article linking red meat to cancer and heart disease. Fast Company posted an infographdepicting the same. Pink slime has caused a national outcry. Yet it’s not all red meat that we should fight, but meat from poorly raised animals.

It used to be that cows could roam freely, feeding on grass and taking their time and space to grow. When the animals matured, farmers would walk them to the local butcher shop where we would pick up our daily protein needs. Then came refrigerated transportation, meatpacking factorization (think The Jungle), corn subsidies, and antibiotics that made the entire process cheaper, faster, bigger, and less about the quality of the food we eat. It brought cheap meats to Americans, but at what cost? Beef transformed from a locally-sourced seasonal food to something we make from mixing foodcoloring and mush (and no matter how happy it looks, it’s not right). Here are 10 reasons why we should go back to sustainably raised, grassfed beef.
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Today’s Thanksgiving home-cooked feasts aside, our eating patterns are trending in the wrong direction.

Over time. we’ve tended to go from cooking our own food to relying on more processed, packaged and non-perishable fare. Researchers say this slow transition, along with other factors, has resulted in an increasingly obese population, rife with heart disease, diabetes and other illnesses.

Oldways, a Cambridge non-profit that promotes healthy eating, wanted to help solve this problem. The group spearheaded a 20-year research project that put together a panel of experts — community health experts, culinary historians, nutrition scientists and even a representative from Whole Foods who has worked with the WIC program for needy women, infants and children — to collectively come up with a healthy eating model. Continue reading →

Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Mitchell Pritchett) is going downright prehistoric by signing up for the Paleo Diet.

Also known as the Caveman Diet, this regime involves consuming food only found in nature, such as game meat, vegetables, fish, wild fruits, and nuts, etc. The basic idea is to return to what human beings ate before processed food was introduced.

Jesse is tracking his progress via Twitter (@jessetyler)and his Paleo food journey hasn’t been so easy. About a third of the way into his “30 day” diet trial, Jesse admitted, “I’m not gonna lie. I want a Martini. BAD!” Continue reading →

For cave people, Hayley Mason and Bill Staley are pretty plugged in.

The young Pittsburgh-area couple, have a food blog that gets about 1.5 million page views annually. They have 8,100 Facebook fans, 2,000-plus Twitter followers, and do YouTube videos and podcasts.

As of today, they also have a cookbook, published by Victory Belt ($34.95), titled “Make it Paleo.”

It’s all about eating like our paleolithic, hunter-gatherer forebears did: Lots of meat, vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds, but nots of grains or starches, legumes, dairy, alcohol or processed foods.

Those “are not as easy for our bodies to digest,” the couple write, noting that paleo diet foods “generally provide our bodies with more efficient, long-lasting energy that also aids in burning fat.” Continue reading →