Eat Red Meat For Good Health

I like to include red meat in my chop plates. I had proper information on what to gain from eating red meat. 

The trouble with many is that too much misinformed ideas about red meat has been swollen without discretion or second though. The same thing applies to eggs as body building and nourishing foods. 

Red meant comes from cows especially. Goats and sheep also supply red meat. Many health benefits is derived from these food items. I will concentrate on eating meat for good health and gaining weigh here if you’re thin.

Meat is one of the four classes of foods. It is a fat. It supply some fatty acids need by the body for proper metabolism. 

Health information about meat is that it contains vitamin B-Complex, specially B_1, thiamine, B₂ and iron. The iron in meat is best absorbed than that from fruits and vegetables, but it needs the presence of vitamin C for this to take place in the blood stream. Meat is poor in vitamin A, C and D.  

One best thing about meat is that it is easily digestible and absorbed by the body in the blood stream and at the same time, releasing energy twice that of carbohydrates and proteins. Excess is stored in the adipose tissues and under the skin as insulator against cold.

Meat fat contained natural cholesterol and fatty acids that is good for health. It is the synthetic cholesterol in products like margarines that posed a health risk.

But meat or red meat has its minus sides. They say it is a factor in heart disease. Nothing could be far from this truth. Yes, meat when use in excess can speed up a gain in body mass index, or what is otherwise known as a gain in weight. The results include diabetes, high blood pressure, coronary heart disease and other heart issues.

There is nothing wrong in eating meat at the right proportion. One can eat meat along with say peanuts (ground nuts) daily and not felt any issue. I do. The fats from the nuts can help in countering the side effects from the meat.

I remember a time I realize I was losing weigh rapidly. I thought of supplementing my meals with drugs over the counter. The result was not good after a month. Eating meat solve the issue. So, I bought 100 Ib of meat, treat it well by frying and saving same for daily use. I take 50  gm or more daily in all my meals along with handful of peanuts. It was a very good result.

That was some 30 years ago. But today, and over 58 years old I have not experience any heart related disease. 

You know the French Paradox where Westerners eat meat more than any other food items. The French people eat their meat along with more fish or seafood. Think about the mediterrean diets which include seafood, wine and exercise. They stay heart healthy. 

When you consume meat above that which the body need, you are asking for trouble. You are in fact digging your grave with your teeth.

Besides eating meat with some peanuts, I also include legumes along with the meal. Soya bean is the best legume I know of. It works well in supplement protein from the meat. Do not misunderstand me here.

In nutrition and digestion, 1/5 of the fats and protein has to come from plant sources; the other 4/5 is animal, birds and fish. This is because plant source do not contain saturated fats. In fact these saturated fats from animals are work by the plant source to become unsaturated. That is why one should always include vegetable protein and fats along with animal sources. This is a basic fact to know.

You fear meat can cause cancer. Yes, it will if you misuse it. So treat it moderately in all your meals.

For men like me who are above 58 years, medicine says it is prostate cancer for eating fat meat. For women, it is breast cancer. Yes, I agreed but I also know that fat meat has healthy factors to benefit or rather my promote health, and of course my body.

Like as I say, I eat it daily to maintain my gain in weigh. Now having achieved that, I include meat three times weekly in all my meals. For example, here is what I could take for snack some days: fried meats, peanuts half in raw state or half done, bean, fried sardines, mullets and tilapia, a cup of black tea with added milk and sugar, fried sweet or Irish potatoes with their skin plus any of my favorite fruits and greens.

I eat this in a well relaxed state of mind. I enjoy munching all the fried items along with the nuts. In fact, I would chew a piece of peanut thoroughly enjoying its flavor and before taking on others like meat, greens and fish. Then I’ll sip my tea to wash it down.

Add to all these I am always active with my daily and weekly exercise like walking, swimming and jogging; including any aerobic exercise. http://greens4food.blogspot.com So I stay in top shape.

You will notice I do not include grains. It is only a snack. But when it comes to lunch or supper, rice or any other carbohydrate is a most. This is where many got it all wrong. They eat more that 100 gram of meat regularly and later end up with heart issues. They got it all wrong because they are not moderate in eating meats.

I know of a poor fellow in my neighborhood. He was very financial challenged and could not afford meat much of the time in his meals. He depends on fish but he was healthy. Later, his finances got an upturn. You’ll wonder how he got such large chunk of meats into his soup plate. He will soon after a good plate of meal supplement these with steaks from red meats again. The man got fat and fatter and died with heart attack. I pity the poor fellow much.

Meat is good. Eat it with fish, nuts, legumes, greensand roots; fruits and grains and you are on your way to good health.

To your good health!

Miebakagh57 (Miebakagh Fiberesima) Copyright 2015.

Soups For Promoting Good Health Part1

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A soup is any thin or thick liquid made with fish, meat, green leafy vegetables, herbs, spices, and with carbohydrates. Some soups have fresh tomato paste as its carb part. I cherish this with fresh or dried sardines.

The carbs provide the thick consistency in nearly most pots of soups. These can be any carbs from root vegetables-yams, cocoyams, potatos; seeds and pods like melon and okra.

Some even contained peanuts as a thick consistency. I like this as a soup stew to eat yams and plantains. It provided me with the much energy I ever need.

A soup is essentially a meal. It can be taken alone or enjoyed over a plate of rice or yam.

Soups contain all the food group listed-carbs, fats and oils, proteins, greens, herbs and spices. A soup is completed in itself as a meal. It needs no supplements. But it is nearly and always followed with a carb or a glass of wine or any drink.

As such, it contained all the factors that our body need for nourishment. That is why it should be prepared with much care.

Soups provide energy plus all that the body need for growing, and repair of worn out and repair of damaged tissues, cells and muscles.

A plate of nice delicious and nutritious soup is like a dope of medicine and can subdue fever, cough, cold or flu and hemorrhold or anal bleeding and can elevated good health.

Pepper Soups

As a boy and a young man, I regularly prepared green leafy pepper soup daily with dried fish. The greens usually come from basil or pumpkins. I do not take it with any meals because I just want to enjoy nature’s greens, vitality my body and contained my weigh.

You see any green leafy vegetable is very low in carbs. These will never make you put on a pond of weight.

Okay, let’s get to review a plate or two of soup.

A pepper soup is usually a thin broth. It can contain fish or meat, or both plus herbs and spices. Some adds a little green like mint, basil or any of their favorite greens.

The type of pepper you one wants depends on a factor or two.

Either, you want to savor it just like any ordinary meal. Or you want it as a dope to treat an ill-health.

Have you had an attack of a fever or cold? I do as a boy. Did grandmother recommend a soup when medication failed in time to relief you of the flu? Old wives remedies, via a plate of soup always work to gain back good health here.

I remember this as a boy of 11 years. I had a bout of high fever. Although I had my prescription from a good pharmacy, it failed or I’d say it needs a booster. The old women advise a warm plate of basil soup. I took the remedy and got better. This has since become a part of my kitchen pots. Whether I am sick or not, and I hardly get sick these days, I made a plate of basil soup for me, and if my family wants a share, all the best to them.

Let me say something here. I am a good jogger. I jog to keep fit. On my returns, guest what I had? A wonderful plate of basil pepper soup with sardines over oiled plantain. I use over two cups of the green here. Such a nice stuff for health promotion.

This plate is the main meal. But a fresh orange or two plus a stalk of sugar cane is for refreshment before the meal some thirty minutes later. You see I take a serious step here to replace my lost energy with the orange and sugar cane.

The rule is that energy lost is to be replaced in time.

Thick Soups

Again, if you are not in any wise sick, you can still enjoy a delicious plate of soup. I like it much with fish and meat.

 In Africa, they are many ethnic groups that cherish soups with a plate of carbohydrate meal.

Ground cassava or guinea corn made with boiling water is such a meal. Some use it with pound yams or plantain. In the case of the guinea corn, the grounded flour is cooked in a pot for over 10 to 15 minutes and this is eaten with the soup. It provided the much energy need for muscular work than a plate of rice meal with stew as a lunch or supper.

I like my thick soups with dried mullets, sardines and fresh cow meat. On certain occasions, I’d like to add some stock fish, especially a share or half a part of the head. The thicken ingredient here can be grounded melon seeds. This made the soup taste much better and nicer. Greens can come in any form with the exception of basil leaves because it does not impact any flavor in thick soup.

In a broth like this, okra or any other carb ingredient to thick the soup can replace melons.

Tilapia Kitchen

Tilapia spices were very common in making pepper soups. The thin types have a lot of soft bones and these provide health benefit for the human bones. These are easily chewed and are absorbed into the blood stream.

Tilapia is an excellent fish that develops and build a strong sturdy body like any other fish. The red variety has thickness of flesh more than the dark types. The red it seems has less bone than the black spices. Or their bones seem to be compact that it did not give any hassle during a meal. One can easily pick the flesh out.

Tilapia is mostly cooked with fresh red tomatoes, fresh chili pepper and basil leaves and eaten over a plate of rice.

In my place, small bars or public eating places made the soup for sale to hungry customers. The price depending on the variety can be princely. It was a joy over wine.

Tilapia is found mostly in African, Asia and the Biblical lands or Israel.

A plate of soup a day is dope of good health benefit for all your body system.

To Your good health!

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